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NEW MEXICO HISTORY -- FINAL EXAM
Questions And Answers 2025 Update.
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
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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?
What were the purposes of the Pueblo Peoples' Kachina religious practices? - Answer✔to bring
rain for crops and good health for people, just as many people pray for such things
Manchuria - Answer✔The Manchus were originally forest dwellers in the northeastern region of
China, known to westerners as
Navajo - Answer✔The first of the Athabascan peoples in New Mexico to abandon complete
nomadic life and become more settled were the
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado - Answer✔Who led the first Spanish expedition into the lands
that are now New Mexico?
What originally led the first Spanish expedition to New Mexico? - Answer✔The legend of Seven
Golden Cities of Cibola proclaimed by Fray Marcos de Niza.
Which of the following Spanish led expeditions to New Mexico in the 1580s and 1590s? -
Answer✔Fray Agustin; Fray Bernadino stipends and congregated in castle towns of the daimyo
or in Edo; Canstano de Sosa
Santa Domingo - Answer✔The first but short lived Spanish "colony" or settlement in New
Mexico in 1590 was located at
Why did Governor Don Pedro de Peralta—the second governor of New Mexico—move the
capital of New Mexico from San Gabriel to Santa Fe? - Answer✔Peralta relocated to an area
with a regular water source, ample land for cultivation, a more defensible location, and no
Pueblo Indians in vicinity.
After the 1599 massacre of most of the citizens of Acoma Pueblo by Spanish soldiers and war
dogs, the few surviving citizens were force marched to Santo Domingo - what happened to the
survivors? - Answer✔sixty girls were permanently separated from their parents and family
members to be sold 2000 miles south into slavery, twelve more children were given to Spanish
priests, adults became slaves for twenty years, and the men among them had part of one foot
cut off.
Spanish Catholic Missions - Answer✔During the first decades of Spanish colonization and
settlement, the Native Americans primary contact with Spanish culture came through the
Encomienda - Answer✔The Spanish system of labor and tribute that subjected natives to
Spanish law and created hardship and near slavery was the
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NEW MEXICO HISTORY -- FINAL EXAM
Questions And Answers 2025 Update.
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
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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?
What were the purposes of the Pueblo Peoples' Kachina religious practices? - Answer✔to bring
rain for crops and good health for people, just as many people pray for such things
Manchuria - Answer✔The Manchus were originally forest dwellers in the northeastern region of
China, known to westerners as
Navajo - Answer✔The first of the Athabascan peoples in New Mexico to abandon complete
nomadic life and become more settled were the
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado - Answer✔Who led the first Spanish expedition into the lands
that are now New Mexico?
What originally led the first Spanish expedition to New Mexico? - Answer✔The legend of Seven
Golden Cities of Cibola proclaimed by Fray Marcos de Niza.
Which of the following Spanish led expeditions to New Mexico in the 1580s and 1590s? -
Answer✔Fray Agustin; Fray Bernadino stipends and congregated in castle towns of the daimyo
or in Edo; Canstano de Sosa
Santa Domingo - Answer✔The first but short lived Spanish "colony" or settlement in New
Mexico in 1590 was located at
Why did Governor Don Pedro de Peralta—the second governor of New Mexico—move the
capital of New Mexico from San Gabriel to Santa Fe? - Answer✔Peralta relocated to an area
with a regular water source, ample land for cultivation, a more defensible location, and no
Pueblo Indians in vicinity.
After the 1599 massacre of most of the citizens of Acoma Pueblo by Spanish soldiers and war
dogs, the few surviving citizens were force marched to Santo Domingo - what happened to the
survivors? - Answer✔sixty girls were permanently separated from their parents and family
members to be sold 2000 miles south into slavery, twelve more children were given to Spanish
priests, adults became slaves for twenty years, and the men among them had part of one foot
cut off.
Spanish Catholic Missions - Answer✔During the first decades of Spanish colonization and
settlement, the Native Americans primary contact with Spanish culture came through the
Encomienda - Answer✔The Spanish system of labor and tribute that subjected natives to
Spanish law and created hardship and near slavery was the
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