In the Taíno tradition, a sacred object with spiritual attributes...

In the Taíno tradition, a sacred object with spiritual attributes is called a...

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...cemí.

 

...dújo.

 

...trigonolith.

 

In North America, the group that shows contact and trade with Mesoamerican cultures in the evidence of maize-based agriculture is:

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The Puebloans

 

The Mississipians

 

The Woodlanders

 

 

The artifacts that give validity to the theory of migration routes into the Caribbean from South America through Venezuela and Trinidad in the pre-Columbian period were.

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The condor amulets - There are no Andean condors in the Caribbean, so the image must have been passed from earlier generations living in South America.

 

The hammocks - Arawak groups from Venezuela were the only one using hammocks back then.

 

The snuff pipes - There is evidence of tobacco addiction in pre-Columbian Brazil.

 

 

The ancestral Pueblo culture had a particular architecture and planning system involving teepees.

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True

 

False

 

 

At the time of Spanish contact the _______________ were the principal inhabitants of most of the Caribbean islands.

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Taínos

 

Caribs

 

Salaloids

 

 

The first peoples in the Caribbean were pre-agroceramists. 

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True

 

False

 

 

______________________ is a term used for the broad cultural area in the pre-Columbian southwestern North America, extending from Utah to Mexico. 

 

 

Poverty Point, in today's Louisiana,  is the oldest remaining of the grand scale mounds in North America.

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True

 

False

 

 

The oldest surviving Paleoamerican-Archaic period earthwork mound in North America is ___________________.

 

The Reconquista is identified in European history as...

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... the re-conquest, or retaking, of Spanish Catholic territories from the Muslims.

 

... the conquest of southern Europe by the Muslims.

 

... the Spanish conquest of the so-called New World.

 

 

"Lithic" means...

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... related to earth.

 

... related to stone.

 

...related to metal.

 

 

Landscape alterations made of earth, recurrent in prehistoric settlements all around the world, are called:

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ridges

 

earthwork mounds

 

post-and-lintel construction

 

 

A stone that has been worked through knapping, on both sides, in order to make it slim and sharp, is called:

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jadeite stone

 

hammering stone

 

bifacial stone

 

 

The notion of "prehistory" implies

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...anything that happened before the Christian Era.

 

... the human experience before the development of written languages.

 

... anything that happened before the Greeks.