NEW MEXICO HISTORY --
FINAL EXAM exam questions
and answers 2025(graded
A+)
Identify the two recurring themes in New Mexico history. - answer
The living conditions of New Mexico are often inhospitable, and the
people typically live in isolation.
The largest of New Mexico's land form provinces - answer Basin
and Range.
FIVE - answer The N.M. region has _______ important river systems.
June-September. - answer Three-quarters of the moisture received
in N.M. during an average years occurs during the the months of
high elevation - answer In regards to elevation, N.M. is generally
considered to be a land of
12,000-8,000 years ago - answer Humans likely first arrived in N.M.
some time between this time....
The ancestors of earliest native American peoples - answer These
people migrated by land across the Alaskan-Siberian land bridge.
big game hunters - answer The first humans to arrive in N.M. were
primarily these type....
, bison, mastadon, mammoths - answer Among the animals that
early New Mexico inhabitants hunted were
Eastern - answer The two prominent archaeological sites in N.M.
for early humans can be found in what part of the state?
Mesolithic period. - answer As the early group of hunter's game
became extinct, a new age of native inhabitants in N.M. after 8000
B.C. known as this period
4,000-2,500 BC - answer During the new emerging Desert Culture,
the desert dwellers likely became early farmers sometime between
this period.
Southwestern New Mexico - answer The Mogollon Culture existed
in this area
The Developmental Pueblo Culture - answer The pre-pueblo people
(Anasazi) began making above ground adobe structures during this
pottery making, farming, hunting with a bow and arrow - answer
By the time of the Developmental Pueblo Culture, the Anasazi were
skilled at this
extended and persistent drought - answer The major cause for the
decline of the pre-pueblo people (Anasazi) after 1100 A.D. was
corn, beans and squash - answer What were the three primary
crops traditionally grown by Pueblo People?
FINAL EXAM exam questions
and answers 2025(graded
A+)
Identify the two recurring themes in New Mexico history. - answer
The living conditions of New Mexico are often inhospitable, and the
people typically live in isolation.
The largest of New Mexico's land form provinces - answer Basin
and Range.
FIVE - answer The N.M. region has _______ important river systems.
June-September. - answer Three-quarters of the moisture received
in N.M. during an average years occurs during the the months of
high elevation - answer In regards to elevation, N.M. is generally
considered to be a land of
12,000-8,000 years ago - answer Humans likely first arrived in N.M.
some time between this time....
The ancestors of earliest native American peoples - answer These
people migrated by land across the Alaskan-Siberian land bridge.
big game hunters - answer The first humans to arrive in N.M. were
primarily these type....
, bison, mastadon, mammoths - answer Among the animals that
early New Mexico inhabitants hunted were
Eastern - answer The two prominent archaeological sites in N.M.
for early humans can be found in what part of the state?
Mesolithic period. - answer As the early group of hunter's game
became extinct, a new age of native inhabitants in N.M. after 8000
B.C. known as this period
4,000-2,500 BC - answer During the new emerging Desert Culture,
the desert dwellers likely became early farmers sometime between
this period.
Southwestern New Mexico - answer The Mogollon Culture existed
in this area
The Developmental Pueblo Culture - answer The pre-pueblo people
(Anasazi) began making above ground adobe structures during this
pottery making, farming, hunting with a bow and arrow - answer
By the time of the Developmental Pueblo Culture, the Anasazi were
skilled at this
extended and persistent drought - answer The major cause for the
decline of the pre-pueblo people (Anasazi) after 1100 A.D. was
corn, beans and squash - answer What were the three primary
crops traditionally grown by Pueblo People?
