BA History Early Americas — practice questions
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Practice BA History Early Americas in the app →The first people to reach the Americas walked across a land bridge joining modern Alaska and Russia. That bridGroups of hunter-gatherers had spread across North America south of the ice sheets as long ago as:By around 5000 BCE, settlers in the Tehuacan Valley were eating beans, squash, bottle gourds and:Genetic testing suggests one Andean tuber was domesticated between 8000 and 6000 BCE. That crop is the:Andean peoples domesticated camelids for meat and later wool. Those animals included alpacas, guanacos and:Mesoamerica's first complex civilisation, with its own monumental architecture, was the:A ritual ball game spread from that culture and was later played by the Maya, the Aztec and many others. Its oAnother feature possibly inherited from that same early culture was the Maya:A civilisation appearing in the valleys of Oaxaca from about 500 BCE built the capital at Monte Alban. That ciThe Chavin-influenced Andean region later fragmented into full civilisations including Tiwanaku, Nazca and theAn Andean coastal people removed the organs of their dead and replaced them with reeds and clay. That practiceThe oldest known mound site in North America, dating from around 3900 BCE, sits in northern Louisiana. It is:A new mound-building culture emerged on the old Adena and Hopewell lands around the year 700. It is the:The largest urban centre of that tradition emerged around 1050 and peaked about 1250. It is:Monks Mound at that site, finished around 1100, is described as the largest human-made earthen mound in:Historians place the origins of the Aztecs against the backdrop of the collapse of an earlier civilisation. ThIn 1428 a three-city partnership attacked and overthrew the powerful city-state of Atzcapotzalco. That partnerAround their island capital the Aztecs built artificial farming islands crossed by canals. Those plots are calConquered peoples were made to hand over animal products, salt, textiles, artwork, cacao and maize. Those paymThe Inca Empire grew from a city more than eleven thousand feet up in the central Andes. That city is:Lacking writing, the Inca recorded information on a portable device made of many knotted strings. That device Inca armies could crush rebellions quickly because of one great engineering asset. That asset was the empire's