American Yawp Study Guide Exam Questions Answers

American Yawp Study Guide Exam Questions Answers Yawp Chapter 1 - ANS The New World What is the name of the Native American group who lived in Chaco Canyon? - ANS Pueblo What is the best term to describe Native American ancestry/descent? - ANS Matrilineal What was the name of the largest city in the Mississippian Empire? - ANS Cahokia Under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator, the Portuguese emerged as an early sea power. Which of these inventions contributed to Portuguese sea-faring? - ANS Astrolabe In the 130 years after contact, approximately what proportion of Native Americans had died? - ANS 95% The first Americans arrived on the North American continent approximately_____________ - ANS 12-20 thousand years ago How would you compare the sexual and marital freedom of Native Americans and Europeans before contact? - ANS Native Americans enjoyed greater sexual and marital freedom Christopher Columbus sailed under the flag of which nation? - ANS Spain What was the name of the first native group that Columbus encountered? - ANS Ararwaks Which of the following proved essential to the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs? - ANS Native dissension, Smallpox, Persuasion/luck or All of the Above Yawp Chapter 2 - ANS Colliding Cultures What was the name of the most powerful Native American group in sixteenth-century Florida? - ANS Apalachee