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What is migration?
This is a movement of a large number of people into a new homeland.
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Who is George McJunkin?
This is the amateur archeologist who was born a slave but later accidentally uncovered the existence of the Folsom people when he discovered an arrowhead within the rib bones of a bison latifrons.
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What is one?
A single dot represents what number within the Mayan math system?
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Who is Hernan Cortes?
The conquistador is credited with conquering this Aztec is this person.
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What is the Mississippi?
This river claims the Missouri, Arkansas, and Ohio rivers as tributaries.
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What is pueblos?
This is a home or community of homes built by Native Americans.
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What is Beringia?
This is the name of the land bridge which connected North America and Asia during the end of the last ice age, approximately 20,000 to 12,000 YBP.
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What is zero?
The canoe/football-looking symbol represents what number?
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Who is Francisco Pizarro?
This conquistador is credited with conquering the Inca?
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What is the Columbia River?
This river flows westward from the Cascades, empties into the Pacific, and partly forms the border between Washington and Oregon.
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What is carbon dating?
This is a scientific method used to determine the age of an artifact.
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What is the Solutrean hypothesis?
This is the theory that an early European group used boats to cross along an ice shelf in the northern Atlantic and eventually landed on the east coast of North America ~20,000 YBP.
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What is the Inca?
What Native American group used a system of knots for its record keeping?
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What is Tenochtitlan?
The capital of the Aztec empire had this name.
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What is the Rio Grande?
This river forms much of the border between the state of Texas and Mexico.
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What is quipu?
This is a calculating device developed by the Inca.
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What is Clovis? (or the Clovis people?)
This is the name anthropologists have given to the first group of settlers to cross into North America.
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What is 20?
The Mayan system uses what number as its base?
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What is Cahokia?
Monk's Mound was part of this city, the largest pre-Columbian city within the boundaries of the modern United States.
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What is the Great Salt Lake?
The Utes ate brined locusts from this lake.
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What is arroyo?
This is a a steep-sided gully formed by the action of fast-flowing water in an arid or semi-arid region, found chiefly in the southwestern US.
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What is the quaternary extinction event?
The killing or dying off of most North American megafauna is known as this.
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What is 88?
Within a vertical column, if you have four dots spaced above 3 dots and one horizontal line, you have this number.
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What is disease (particularly small pox)?
The single greatest ally European colonizers had in taking over areas of the New World was this.
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What is Appalachians?
Of the four mountain ranges you're required to know for the exam, these mountains are the oldest.
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