Review Questions

1. Why must historians rely on the work of archaeologists to write the history of ancient America?
2. Why and how did Paleo-Indians adapt to environmental change?
3. Why did Archaic Native Americans shift from big-game hunting to foraging and hunting smaller animals?
4. How and why did the societies of the Southwest differ from eastern societies?
5. What cultural similarities did native peoples of the Western Hemisphere share in the 1490s, and why?
6. How did the conquest and creation of an empire exemplify the central values of Mexican society?