NEW MEXICO HISTORY -- FINAL EXAM ALREADY PASSED

NEW MEXICO HISTORY -- FINAL EXAM ALREADY PASSED The living conditions of New Mexico are often inhospitable, and the people typically live in isolation. Identify the two recurring themes in New Mexico history. Basin and Range. The largest of New Mexico's land form provinces The N.M. region has _______ important river systems. FIVE Three-quarters of the moisture received in N.M. during an average years occurs during the the months of June-September. In regards to elevation, N.M. is generally considered to be a land of high elevation Humans likely first arrived in N.M. some time between this time.... 12,000-8,000 years ago These people migrated by land across the Alaskan-Siberian land bridge. The ancestors of earliest native American peoples The first humans to arrive in N.M. were primarily these type.... big game hunters Among the animals that early New Mexico inhabitants hunted were bison, mastadon, mammoths The two prominent archaeological sites in N.M. for early humans can be found in what part of the state? Eastern 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 Mesolithic period. During the new emerging Desert Culture, the desert dwellers likely became early farmers sometime between this period. 4,000-2,500 BC The Mogollon Culture existed in this area Southwestern New Mexico The pre-pueblo people (Anasazi) began making above ground adobe structures during this The Developmental Pueblo Culture By the time of the Developmental Pueblo Culture, the Anasazi were skilled at this pottery making, farming, hunting with a bow and arrow The major cause for the decline of the pre-pueblo people (Anasazi) after 1100 A.D. was extended and persistent drought What were the three primary crops traditionally grown by Pueblo People? corn, beans and squash to bring rain for crops and good health for people, just as many people pray for such things What were the purposes of the Pueblo Peoples' Kachina religious practices? The Manchus were originally forest dwellers in the northeastern region of China, known to westerners as Manchuria The first of the Athabascan peoples in New Mexico to abandon complete nomadic life and become more settled were the Navajo