ASB 222 STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Specific architecture like that found in the Chacoan Great Houses, is the signature
of the Chaco phenomenon - ✔✔True
✔✔Anthropologist argue that construction of Hopewell mounds - ✔✔Created a stronger
sense of community
✔✔You are a archaeologist on a team excavating an ancient site. You find evidence of
elite and commoner classes, large public buildings and a group of people who earned
their living making pottery. This evidence suggests the site was - ✔✔An early state-level
society
✔✔The Egyptian state differed from those in Mesopotamia in that it lacked a market
economy - ✔✔True
✔✔The earliest state that developed through local processes are called - ✔✔Primary
states
✔✔Mahenjo-daro and Indus Valley culture is unique among the state societies we
covered in this module because - ✔✔the existence of social stratification is not clear
given the evidence currently available
✔✔If you were investigating a previously unknown culture, which of these features of
the urban revolution would be the BEST evidence that you had found a state level
society - ✔✔GOT IT WRONG- NOT MONUMENTAL BUILDINGS
maybe- social classes
✔✔The Andean practice of sending out satellite communities to collect resources from
other ecological zones in order to maintain self-sufficiency is called - ✔✔verticality
✔✔After the Urban revolution most societies have communal ownership of land animals
and other resources - ✔✔false
✔✔A preexisting civil war among the Inka made things much easier for the Spanish
conquerors - ✔✔True
✔✔Where was the Anu Ziggurat located? - ✔✔Uruk
✔✔Which of the following is and example of a low-density tropical city? - ✔✔Great
Zimbabwe
, ✔✔Which of the following New World civilizations is the only one with a fully developed
writing system? - ✔✔The Maya
✔✔The centers of Maya cities usually included - ✔✔A. Plazas
B. Temple Pyramids
C. Palaces
D. Ballcourts
ANSWER-E- ALL OF THE ABOVE
✔✔Scholars debate whether Mayan site of Tikal qualifies as a real city because - ✔✔it
had very low population density
✔✔Human sacrifice was the greatest concern and dictated all the activities of the
average Aztec person - ✔✔False
✔✔Archaeologist at the Mayan city of Dos Pilas found evidence that commoners had
build huts on the city plaza and a stone wall around the city center around the time of
the Maya collapse. Archaeologists conclude this is likely evidence of - ✔✔Increased
conflict and warfare
✔✔The idea that pre-contact groups in the New World did not change their environment
is termed - ✔✔The pristine myth
✔✔Who was left after the Maya collapse? - ✔✔A. Puuc Maya culture in the Yucatan
B. Highland Maya communities
C. Villages on the edge of the Southern Maya Lowlands
ANSWER- D- ALL OF THE ABOVE
✔✔What subsistence technology helped Aztec people flourish? - ✔✔got it wrong- NOT
increased logistical mobility
maybe- Chinampa farming???
✔✔Aztec commoners such as those at Cuexcomate and Caplico, were poor and
oppressed - ✔✔False
✔✔A Practice that is sustainable when the local scale is taken into consideration may
not necessarily be sustainable at the global scale - ✔✔true
✔✔ Archaeology uses analogy and comparison to understand sites and artifacts -
✔✔true
✔✔the goals of archaeology include - ✔✔A. Discovering evidence of the human past
B. Reconstructing cultural history around the world
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Specific architecture like that found in the Chacoan Great Houses, is the signature
of the Chaco phenomenon - ✔✔True
✔✔Anthropologist argue that construction of Hopewell mounds - ✔✔Created a stronger
sense of community
✔✔You are a archaeologist on a team excavating an ancient site. You find evidence of
elite and commoner classes, large public buildings and a group of people who earned
their living making pottery. This evidence suggests the site was - ✔✔An early state-level
society
✔✔The Egyptian state differed from those in Mesopotamia in that it lacked a market
economy - ✔✔True
✔✔The earliest state that developed through local processes are called - ✔✔Primary
states
✔✔Mahenjo-daro and Indus Valley culture is unique among the state societies we
covered in this module because - ✔✔the existence of social stratification is not clear
given the evidence currently available
✔✔If you were investigating a previously unknown culture, which of these features of
the urban revolution would be the BEST evidence that you had found a state level
society - ✔✔GOT IT WRONG- NOT MONUMENTAL BUILDINGS
maybe- social classes
✔✔The Andean practice of sending out satellite communities to collect resources from
other ecological zones in order to maintain self-sufficiency is called - ✔✔verticality
✔✔After the Urban revolution most societies have communal ownership of land animals
and other resources - ✔✔false
✔✔A preexisting civil war among the Inka made things much easier for the Spanish
conquerors - ✔✔True
✔✔Where was the Anu Ziggurat located? - ✔✔Uruk
✔✔Which of the following is and example of a low-density tropical city? - ✔✔Great
Zimbabwe
, ✔✔Which of the following New World civilizations is the only one with a fully developed
writing system? - ✔✔The Maya
✔✔The centers of Maya cities usually included - ✔✔A. Plazas
B. Temple Pyramids
C. Palaces
D. Ballcourts
ANSWER-E- ALL OF THE ABOVE
✔✔Scholars debate whether Mayan site of Tikal qualifies as a real city because - ✔✔it
had very low population density
✔✔Human sacrifice was the greatest concern and dictated all the activities of the
average Aztec person - ✔✔False
✔✔Archaeologist at the Mayan city of Dos Pilas found evidence that commoners had
build huts on the city plaza and a stone wall around the city center around the time of
the Maya collapse. Archaeologists conclude this is likely evidence of - ✔✔Increased
conflict and warfare
✔✔The idea that pre-contact groups in the New World did not change their environment
is termed - ✔✔The pristine myth
✔✔Who was left after the Maya collapse? - ✔✔A. Puuc Maya culture in the Yucatan
B. Highland Maya communities
C. Villages on the edge of the Southern Maya Lowlands
ANSWER- D- ALL OF THE ABOVE
✔✔What subsistence technology helped Aztec people flourish? - ✔✔got it wrong- NOT
increased logistical mobility
maybe- Chinampa farming???
✔✔Aztec commoners such as those at Cuexcomate and Caplico, were poor and
oppressed - ✔✔False
✔✔A Practice that is sustainable when the local scale is taken into consideration may
not necessarily be sustainable at the global scale - ✔✔true
✔✔ Archaeology uses analogy and comparison to understand sites and artifacts -
✔✔true
✔✔the goals of archaeology include - ✔✔A. Discovering evidence of the human past
B. Reconstructing cultural history around the world
