Review Questions

1. Question

   Why must historians rely on the work of archaeologists to write the history of ancient America? (“Archaeology and History”)

2. Question

   Why and how did Paleo-Indians adapt to environmental change? (“The First Americans”)

3. Question

   Why did Archaic Native Americans shift from big-game hunting to foraging and hunting smaller animals? (“Archaic Hunters and Gatherers”)

4. Question

   How and why did the societies of the Southwest differ from eastern societies? (“Agricultural Settlements and Chiefdoms”)

5. Question

   What common characteristic underlay Native American diversity in the 1490s? (“Native Americans in the 1490s”)

6. Question

   How did the conquest and creation of an empire exemplify the central values of Mexican society? (“The Mexica: A Mesoamerican Culture”)