SOCI LAC FINAL QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
The __ are a towering 5000 mile-long mountain chains straddling western south
america from southern chile to northern colombia - Answers - andes
with more than 2 million square miles, the __ contains one-third of the worlds tropical
rainsforest - Answers - amazon basin
__ stants for the symbolic and material repertoire with which people in specific contexts
make sense of the worls around them - Answers - culture
ethnography is __ - Answers - a description or portrait of the culture and everyday life
of the people studies
cultural relativism is associated with __ - Answers - people judging a culture with
prejudice and with comparison to their own culture
in which time period did the two most powerful empired in the americas exist? -
Answers - horizon
which of the empires was located in SA? - Answers - Inca
aztec elites began imposing gender stratification and inequality only after the spaniards
appeared - Answers - false
teotihuacan is well known for 3 ceremonial centers: the sun, moon, and the feathered
serpent pyramids. what is the name of the feather serpent daity? - Answers -
quetzacoatl
__ were highly mobile groups, known as foreigners, egelitarian, and related by kinship -
Answers - bands
__ are societies with extreme political and economic inequalities, stratified by culturally
distinctive groups, and are associated with war - Answers - states
__ were moving, unspecialized foragers subsisting on a wide spectrum of marine life,
undomesticated plants, and wild game hunting-what is known as broad-spectrum
foraging - Answers - paleo-indian
the bering straight was __ - Answers - a land bridge between siberia and alaska that
facilitated entry into the americas
which of these is NOT a path to legal immigration? - Answers - overstaying your visa
according to sanabria, why do the people of Latin America and the caribbean share a
Latin culture? - Answers - because they speak a romance language
, one explanation used to explain growth of the latin population in the united states is __ -
Answers - documented and undocumented migrants fleeing poverty and violence in
their home countries and seeking refuge in US
which of the following answer choices is NOT part of the four fields that compromises
the broad academic discipline of antropology? - Answers - zoology
latin america is the most important trading block of the us - Answers - true
the discipline of anthropology has two goals...what are they? - Answers - to
understand how and why people think and behave differently from each other and to
document and understand cultural similarities
the inca imperialism led to deep changes in gender, creating a decline in the status of
the women - Answers - true
the process whereby people of diverse backgrounds come into being a distinctive group
with a new sense of collective identity and consciousness of their past is called __ -
Answers - ethnogenesis
the inca and the aztec rulers were able to instill hegemony over their territories -
Answers - false
what did spain lose after the spanish-american war? - Answers - cuba, puerto rico, and
the philippines
when thinking about spanish gender ideology, which of these is not an example of
honor? - Answers - practicing cohabitation before marriage
biological and cultural intermingling quickly led to a proliferation of ethno-racial
categories that in mesoamerica and the andes, in particular, were often reffered to as
__ - Answers - castes
the expansion of public education was an important mechanism of nation-state
formation because of its ability to convey national symbols, internalize them, make them
dominant, and legitimize the nation-state - Answers - true
__ is a complex category between black and white used as a psuedo racial category in
the early colonial period - Answers - mulatto
the empire that held out the longest against the spanish conquest was the __ empire -
Answers - mayan
__ were used as a reward to notable spanish for their service in the conquest, and as a
way to govern millions of indigenous people - Answers - encomiendas
The __ are a towering 5000 mile-long mountain chains straddling western south
america from southern chile to northern colombia - Answers - andes
with more than 2 million square miles, the __ contains one-third of the worlds tropical
rainsforest - Answers - amazon basin
__ stants for the symbolic and material repertoire with which people in specific contexts
make sense of the worls around them - Answers - culture
ethnography is __ - Answers - a description or portrait of the culture and everyday life
of the people studies
cultural relativism is associated with __ - Answers - people judging a culture with
prejudice and with comparison to their own culture
in which time period did the two most powerful empired in the americas exist? -
Answers - horizon
which of the empires was located in SA? - Answers - Inca
aztec elites began imposing gender stratification and inequality only after the spaniards
appeared - Answers - false
teotihuacan is well known for 3 ceremonial centers: the sun, moon, and the feathered
serpent pyramids. what is the name of the feather serpent daity? - Answers -
quetzacoatl
__ were highly mobile groups, known as foreigners, egelitarian, and related by kinship -
Answers - bands
__ are societies with extreme political and economic inequalities, stratified by culturally
distinctive groups, and are associated with war - Answers - states
__ were moving, unspecialized foragers subsisting on a wide spectrum of marine life,
undomesticated plants, and wild game hunting-what is known as broad-spectrum
foraging - Answers - paleo-indian
the bering straight was __ - Answers - a land bridge between siberia and alaska that
facilitated entry into the americas
which of these is NOT a path to legal immigration? - Answers - overstaying your visa
according to sanabria, why do the people of Latin America and the caribbean share a
Latin culture? - Answers - because they speak a romance language
, one explanation used to explain growth of the latin population in the united states is __ -
Answers - documented and undocumented migrants fleeing poverty and violence in
their home countries and seeking refuge in US
which of the following answer choices is NOT part of the four fields that compromises
the broad academic discipline of antropology? - Answers - zoology
latin america is the most important trading block of the us - Answers - true
the discipline of anthropology has two goals...what are they? - Answers - to
understand how and why people think and behave differently from each other and to
document and understand cultural similarities
the inca imperialism led to deep changes in gender, creating a decline in the status of
the women - Answers - true
the process whereby people of diverse backgrounds come into being a distinctive group
with a new sense of collective identity and consciousness of their past is called __ -
Answers - ethnogenesis
the inca and the aztec rulers were able to instill hegemony over their territories -
Answers - false
what did spain lose after the spanish-american war? - Answers - cuba, puerto rico, and
the philippines
when thinking about spanish gender ideology, which of these is not an example of
honor? - Answers - practicing cohabitation before marriage
biological and cultural intermingling quickly led to a proliferation of ethno-racial
categories that in mesoamerica and the andes, in particular, were often reffered to as
__ - Answers - castes
the expansion of public education was an important mechanism of nation-state
formation because of its ability to convey national symbols, internalize them, make them
dominant, and legitimize the nation-state - Answers - true
__ is a complex category between black and white used as a psuedo racial category in
the early colonial period - Answers - mulatto
the empire that held out the longest against the spanish conquest was the __ empire -
Answers - mayan
__ were used as a reward to notable spanish for their service in the conquest, and as a
way to govern millions of indigenous people - Answers - encomiendas
