What are the central features of southwestern and southeastern Native American groups of North America?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Students should emphasize that most Native Americans were organized in self-governing groups and that environmental factors along with changing and spreading technology shaped the lives of these respective Indian groups. Accordingly, students should point out that southwestern Indians built large, multi-room residential structures and that the Anasazi constructed large agricultural communities and maintained extensive trading networks. Good students will insert information on changing environmental conditions such as drought to explain why the Anasazi eventually dispersed to form pueblos. When discussing dispersal of technology, students need to explain how southeastern Indians benefited from the spread of agricultural technology to produce agricultural surpluses. Good students will identify that social and political authority was bestowed upon those with the expertise to supervise and accomplish the task at hand, to include women as leaders should the situation call for their knowledge.
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A. It was a strong centralized territorial state. B. It consisted of hundreds of largely independent states. C. The position of Holy Roman Emperor was held by the Habsburgs. D. It was made up primarily of German-speaking peoples. E. Habsburg power rested upon their control of vast agricultural estates.
The Habsburg-Valois wars were fought between France and __________.
A. Austria B. Spain C. the Holy Roman Empire D. Russia
Ccording to the Arguing History video in section 1.6, estimates of the number of people who lived in the Americas before the European arrival fall between
A) 100,000 and 500,000 B) 1 million and 5 million C) 10 million and 100 million D) 800 million and 1 billion
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a. 5 b. 10 c. 15 d. 20 e. 25