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Lesson #1:WorldApart
history 1301
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| according to historians quoted in the video, why does history matter? what themes will recur throughout this course? | w/o history, life is hopeless- need to know history before going forward |
| how do historians differ from archareologists in their study of the past?what is meant by the term prehistory? how do we learn about ancient america? what limits us? | they study diff. types of artifacts-archs study physical things such as bones, spear points, baskets, etc. historians study writings(diaries, letters). we learn about ancient amer. through writings-limits:alot happened b4 writing existed |
| why were humans relatively late in arriving in the western hemisphere? | b/c they lived elsewhere in the world for hundreds of 1000's of yrs b4 they reached the west. hemisphere. they lacked a way to travel to it b/c North&south amer. became detached from the gigantic common landmass. |
| what made it possible for human beings to get to the western hemisphere? | slowly over time, homo sapiens (human beings) migrated out of Africa & into Europe & Asia. unlike north & south amer., europe & asia retained land connections to Africa, making migration possible |
| why did Paleo-Indians spread rapidly across the americas? what characterized this culture? | in pursuit of game; hunting and marine life and hopscotching from one desirable landing spot to another. the abundance of game presumably made hunting relatively easy. ample food permitted the paleo-indian pop. to grow tremendously |
| why did the paleo-indians face a crisis about 11,000 years ago? | the mammoths & other large mammals they hunted became extinct mostlikely bc of environmental change. |
| how did the paleo-indians adapt to the crisis? what resulted from these adaptions? | adapted by making atleast 2 important changes in their way of life-hunters began to prey more intensively on smaller animals&the indians devoted more energy to foraging(collecting wild plant foods such as nuts, roots, seeds) this way of life arose 2every1 |
| what does the term "archaic" connote about cultures indigenous to America? | this describes both the many diff. hunting & gathering cultures that descended from paleo-indians & the long period of time when those cultures dominated history of ancient amer. |
| what roles did the salmon, totems, and kin groups play in the pre-columbian indian cultures of the pacific northwest? | stereotypes of the native amer. in the northwest territory of being salmon fisherman played a vital role in their economies; denses populations were on the coast by the ocean to get salmon; kin groups=very importan;claimed ancestry |
| what were the characteristics of the chumash culture along the california coast? | one of the largest tribes based on the ocean. they traded w/ people from the southwest;they all shared their hunter-gatherer way of life |
| how did the ancestral pueblo peoples of the Southwest adapt to their environment? what characterized their social organizations & village life? | they all confronted the challenge of a dry climate & unpredictable fluctuations- they became irrigation experts |
| what characterized the culture that developed at cahokia? | cahokia- great american bottom-flood plane from the mississippi river. provided a lot of fish; the mound builders dominated the miss. valley. |
| how is the cahokia culture similar to that found @ adena & hopewell? | adena culture evolved into the more elaborate Hopewell culture, which lasted about 500 yrs;hopewell ppl built larger mounds than adena & filled them w/ more magnificent gravegoods. |
| how did the environment affect pre-columbian indian cultures in the southeast? what characterized these people? | before columbus arrived, american had approx. 500 native american tribes. |
| the study of history | w/o history=hopeless life; need to know history before going forward; american history is about equality & freedom..established itself on principles; multiracial & multicultural society=america |
| northwest indigenous people | pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, &many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples.tribes=chinook,tillamook,walla walla, & cayuse (washington&oregon) |
| Professor Michael Adler | SMU; discusses the pueblo people; pueblo people= anasazi (ancestrial people) poeple living in that area were farming ppl & traded, communicated, warfare,& survival |
| Monk's Mound | largest mound in the US; dominates the center of cahokia site; largest prehistoric earthwork in america; paramount chief on top=lived on top of mond ruling monk's mond |
| Professor Alex Barker | Dallas Museum of Natural History; explains groups-the largest societies in the southeast tended to be in large societies; easy to make a living foriging; discusses the kind of people (catoba) |
| according to historians cited in the video, the study of history should do all of the following except... | emphasize dates & battles |
| the basic reason for the early, prolonged absence of humans in the western hemisphere is that.. | north & south america had become detached from the gigantic continent of pangea |
| about 11,000 years ago the paleo-indians faced a major crisis: | the large animals they hunted had difficulty adapting to a warming climate |
| the northwest archaic peoples | constructed large, multifamily cedar houses adorned with totems |
| at cahokia, monk's mond likely served as a site for.. | the ruling chief |
| the human sacificies practiced by the mexica are said to have been on a scale unequaled in human history; to the mexica, human sacrifice was... | a normal & reasonable activity to demonstrate their religious devotion |
| the greatest similarity among the diverse cultures that inhabited north america at the dawn of european colonization was that each | developed a distinct culture because of specific adaptations made to their own local natural environment |
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