ASB 222 EXAMS SCRIPT ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔Specific architecture like the Chacoan Great Houses - ✔✔The signature of the
Chaco phenomenon
✔✔Geographic area of Hopewell culture - ✔✔Not limited to modern day Mississippi
✔✔Megafauna - ✔✔Extinct by 11,000 y/a
✔✔Maize - ✔✔N. Americas most significant agricultural crop
✔✔Dendrochronology - ✔✔S. West favored dating technique
✔✔Chaco Phenomenon - ✔✔Huge population of about 50,000 people
✔✔Geographical extent of the Chaco world - ✔✔New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and
Colorado
✔✔Chaco population - ✔✔2,000 people
✔✔Hopewell lifeway - ✔✔Large earthwork ceremonial ritualistic spaces
✔✔Cahokia estimated population - ✔✔10,000 people
✔✔Differences in hunting ability - ✔✔Not evidence of social hierarchy
✔✔Hohokam - ✔✔Built the largest prehistoric irrigation canals in the new world
✔✔Hohokam large scale irrigation - ✔✔750 CE
✔✔Hohokam irrigation canals ran through - ✔✔Arizona
, ✔✔Teotihuacan - ✔✔Indus Valley civilization major city
✔✔Nile River - ✔✔Core of Egyptian civilization
✔✔Cities - ✔✔All civilizations in Asia had this in common
✔✔Teotihuacan - ✔✔Great city because it was the largest city of its time
✔✔Group that built the pyramids at Teotihuacan - ✔✔Unknown builders
✔✔Hypotheses for the pyramids at Teotihuacan - ✔✔Signal and express power by the
rulers and the society
✔✔Not a major feature of the urban revolution - ✔✔The emergence of powerful deities
concerned with individual moral behavior
✔✔Hypothesis archeologist think led to the formation of primary states - ✔✔Warfare,
elites gained control of trade and leveraged into more personal power, and climate
change
✔✔Primary state occured - ✔✔Indus valley, the Nile valley, and Mesopotamia
✔✔Inka Empire - ✔✔Located in Mexico
✔✔Inka empire fell to the spanish - ✔✔Lacked horses, weakened by diseases and
superior weapons led to
✔✔Only large state in S. America - ✔✔The Inka were not
✔✔ The remains of animals that live 25,000 y/a - ✔✔Radiocarbon dating
✔✔Relative dating - ✔✔Artifacts in lower stratigraphic layers are older than those on
higher layers
✔✔Assessing the ratio of 12c to 14c - ✔✔Radio carbon
✔✔Archaeology - ✔✔The study of past human societies through their material remains
✔✔Archaeologist are interested in - ✔✔The innovation of agriculture, the peopling of
the world and the development of large and socially complex cities
✔✔Archaeological site - ✔✔Ancient mammoth skeletons killed by a saber tooth tiger is
NOT
SET A+
✔✔Specific architecture like the Chacoan Great Houses - ✔✔The signature of the
Chaco phenomenon
✔✔Geographic area of Hopewell culture - ✔✔Not limited to modern day Mississippi
✔✔Megafauna - ✔✔Extinct by 11,000 y/a
✔✔Maize - ✔✔N. Americas most significant agricultural crop
✔✔Dendrochronology - ✔✔S. West favored dating technique
✔✔Chaco Phenomenon - ✔✔Huge population of about 50,000 people
✔✔Geographical extent of the Chaco world - ✔✔New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and
Colorado
✔✔Chaco population - ✔✔2,000 people
✔✔Hopewell lifeway - ✔✔Large earthwork ceremonial ritualistic spaces
✔✔Cahokia estimated population - ✔✔10,000 people
✔✔Differences in hunting ability - ✔✔Not evidence of social hierarchy
✔✔Hohokam - ✔✔Built the largest prehistoric irrigation canals in the new world
✔✔Hohokam large scale irrigation - ✔✔750 CE
✔✔Hohokam irrigation canals ran through - ✔✔Arizona
, ✔✔Teotihuacan - ✔✔Indus Valley civilization major city
✔✔Nile River - ✔✔Core of Egyptian civilization
✔✔Cities - ✔✔All civilizations in Asia had this in common
✔✔Teotihuacan - ✔✔Great city because it was the largest city of its time
✔✔Group that built the pyramids at Teotihuacan - ✔✔Unknown builders
✔✔Hypotheses for the pyramids at Teotihuacan - ✔✔Signal and express power by the
rulers and the society
✔✔Not a major feature of the urban revolution - ✔✔The emergence of powerful deities
concerned with individual moral behavior
✔✔Hypothesis archeologist think led to the formation of primary states - ✔✔Warfare,
elites gained control of trade and leveraged into more personal power, and climate
change
✔✔Primary state occured - ✔✔Indus valley, the Nile valley, and Mesopotamia
✔✔Inka Empire - ✔✔Located in Mexico
✔✔Inka empire fell to the spanish - ✔✔Lacked horses, weakened by diseases and
superior weapons led to
✔✔Only large state in S. America - ✔✔The Inka were not
✔✔ The remains of animals that live 25,000 y/a - ✔✔Radiocarbon dating
✔✔Relative dating - ✔✔Artifacts in lower stratigraphic layers are older than those on
higher layers
✔✔Assessing the ratio of 12c to 14c - ✔✔Radio carbon
✔✔Archaeology - ✔✔The study of past human societies through their material remains
✔✔Archaeologist are interested in - ✔✔The innovation of agriculture, the peopling of
the world and the development of large and socially complex cities
✔✔Archaeological site - ✔✔Ancient mammoth skeletons killed by a saber tooth tiger is
NOT
