BURIED CITIES AND LOST TRIBES EXAM 3 QUESTIONS
WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
2 Archaeologies in Mexico correct answer Nationalist Mexican
Imperialist US
2nd Intermediate Period of Egypt correct answer - Hykos in north and Kush in
south
- Division of Egypt between the two
- Both Hykos and Kush rulers become Egyptian
4 times writing was invented and why? correct answer - China - 2500BC,
divination
- Egypt - 3500BC, tombs
- Mesopotamia - 3400BC, commerce
- Mesoamerica (Maya) - 50BC, astrology
16th century Muslim mosque in Uttar Pradesh - India correct answer - 1st Mughal
emperor, Babur, 1528
- Hindus say he destroyed a temple to Rama
- Powerful symbol - struggle since 1880
19th century evolutionists ideas correct answer - Accepted common usage
- Pinnacle of evolution
- Be more civilized and be more like Western Europe, ethnocentric
,1929 Gertrude Caton-Thompson correct answer proved African origin
Advantages of studying Garbage correct answer Whatever comes in must go out
Non-intrusive
Relatively cheap
Art in Tombs correct answer - Most of ancient art in museum comes from royal
tombs
- This art is an expression of our humanity - speak to human ability to create
things
- Each item links us in a tangible physical way with the aesthetics of the past
Ascending anachronism correct answer an event or institution is pushed further
back in time
Aztec correct answer AD 950 - 1150 Toltec Empire and then Chaos
Chichimec Mercenaries
Aztec Capital Tenochtitlan - AD 1345 - see eagle eating a snake and know where
city should be
By AD 1473 Aztec tribute state
Aztec Religion correct answer Hierarchical Polytheism
World created by cyclic cataclysm and rebirth
Must fight off the end of the world
Human sacrifice - victims usually warriors - if they can beat 3 men while foot
being tied down
, Aztec Society correct answer The City on the lake - Chinampas
Ceremonial Center - pyramids
Social structure - had floating gardens
- Nobility
- Warriors
- Priests - blood sacrifices
- Traders
- Commoners and Slaves
Aztecs history with Spanish and Indians correct answer Hernán Cortez & the
Conquest
519 Cortez & 500 Men land in Mexico
Tenochtitlan impressed Spanish
1521 disease, Indian allies & Cortez defeat Aztec
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)- Extreme Nationalist correct answer - India has been
a multicultural secular democracy
- Wholesale rewriting of what India stands for - rewrote history
- To engineer nationalist revolution - control narrative
Necessary to own history itself
Black Nile - Strong Thesis correct answer - Egypt was not simply black African
- Diffusion ideas very simplistic
WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
2 Archaeologies in Mexico correct answer Nationalist Mexican
Imperialist US
2nd Intermediate Period of Egypt correct answer - Hykos in north and Kush in
south
- Division of Egypt between the two
- Both Hykos and Kush rulers become Egyptian
4 times writing was invented and why? correct answer - China - 2500BC,
divination
- Egypt - 3500BC, tombs
- Mesopotamia - 3400BC, commerce
- Mesoamerica (Maya) - 50BC, astrology
16th century Muslim mosque in Uttar Pradesh - India correct answer - 1st Mughal
emperor, Babur, 1528
- Hindus say he destroyed a temple to Rama
- Powerful symbol - struggle since 1880
19th century evolutionists ideas correct answer - Accepted common usage
- Pinnacle of evolution
- Be more civilized and be more like Western Europe, ethnocentric
,1929 Gertrude Caton-Thompson correct answer proved African origin
Advantages of studying Garbage correct answer Whatever comes in must go out
Non-intrusive
Relatively cheap
Art in Tombs correct answer - Most of ancient art in museum comes from royal
tombs
- This art is an expression of our humanity - speak to human ability to create
things
- Each item links us in a tangible physical way with the aesthetics of the past
Ascending anachronism correct answer an event or institution is pushed further
back in time
Aztec correct answer AD 950 - 1150 Toltec Empire and then Chaos
Chichimec Mercenaries
Aztec Capital Tenochtitlan - AD 1345 - see eagle eating a snake and know where
city should be
By AD 1473 Aztec tribute state
Aztec Religion correct answer Hierarchical Polytheism
World created by cyclic cataclysm and rebirth
Must fight off the end of the world
Human sacrifice - victims usually warriors - if they can beat 3 men while foot
being tied down
, Aztec Society correct answer The City on the lake - Chinampas
Ceremonial Center - pyramids
Social structure - had floating gardens
- Nobility
- Warriors
- Priests - blood sacrifices
- Traders
- Commoners and Slaves
Aztecs history with Spanish and Indians correct answer Hernán Cortez & the
Conquest
519 Cortez & 500 Men land in Mexico
Tenochtitlan impressed Spanish
1521 disease, Indian allies & Cortez defeat Aztec
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)- Extreme Nationalist correct answer - India has been
a multicultural secular democracy
- Wholesale rewriting of what India stands for - rewrote history
- To engineer nationalist revolution - control narrative
Necessary to own history itself
Black Nile - Strong Thesis correct answer - Egypt was not simply black African
- Diffusion ideas very simplistic
