1 . Why were early Amerindians forced to rely upon crops for their livelihoods?
A. There was an abundance of tillable land and rainfall.
B. Their religious prophets taught the benefits of farming.
C. Their hunting practices killed off the largest game animals.
D. Hunting large game animals was too dangerous.
2 . Which community is known to have developed an extensive irrigation system in the Southwest?
A. Hohokam
B. Natchez
C. Hopewell
D. Cahokia
3 . Which society had a well-developed military system of pre-military training, followed by a two-year service, before retirement to the reserve labor force?
A. Anasazi
B. Olmec
C. Aztec
D. Inca
4 . The first people to appear in the Americas supported themselves by
A. hunting big game and farming.
B. gathering plants, seeds, and small game hunting.
C. agriculture and small game hunting.
D. big game hunting and gathering plants.
5 . Where did the Olmec establish their culture?
A. Panama
B. Peru
C. Mexico and Yucatán
D. New Mexico and Arizona
6 . The migration of ancient people from Eurasia to the Americas ended about how many years ago?
A. 2,002
B. 1,200
C. 100,000
D. 12,000
7 . Of the following modern nations, which is not found in Mesoamerica?
A. Colombia
B. Mexico
C. Panama
D. Guatemala
8 . What native crop was most important to the survival of the early American cultures?
A. beans
B. corn
C. squash
D. tomatoes
9 . What group was probably the first Mesoamerican civilization?
A. Hopi
B. Hohokam
C. Anasazi
D. Olmec
10 . Which of the following was necessary to produce enough food to support an urban population?
A. big game hunting
B. small game hunting
C. farming
D. gathering
11 . What Amerindian group moved into the central valley of Mexico because of drought in their homeland and stayed to conquer the valley around AD 1200?
A. Anasazi
B. Nazca
C. Aztec
D. Toltec
12 . What was the name of the Aztec city that was built on Lake Texcoco?
A. Snaketown
B. Cuzco
C. Tenochtitlán
D. Vera Cruz
13 . According to Aztec legends, who would return in 1519, leading to a mistaken identification of Cortés?
A. Pizarro
B. Quetzalcoatl
C. Pachacuti
D. Montezuma II
14 . What Incan united the highlands with coastal regions of Peru?
A. Cochise
B. Pachacuti
C. Atahualpa
D. Montezuma
15 . A quipu was used in Incan culture as
A. a means of lighting the sacred fire.
B. a method of recording data.
C. the ball in ceremonial games.
D. the writing material for sacred texts.
16 . Who were the ancestors of the Pueblos?
A. Anasazi
B. Hopewell
C. Hopi
D. Navajo
17 . Which of the following was not a Woodland culture of North America?
A. Hopewell
B. Cahokia
C. Natchez
D. Hohokam
18 . Which culture ruled its empire from the mountain city of Cuzco?
A. Aztec
B. Olmec
C. Anasazi
D. Inca
19 . Which of these cultures developed in central Mexico?
A. Inca
B. Aztec
C. Anasazi
D. Olmec
20 . Which Mesoamerican culture was noted for its massive ceremonies in which thousands of captives were sacrificed to the sun god Huitzilopochtli?
A. Natchez
B. Inca
C. Aztec
D. Olmec
21 . Which Mesoamerican group played a ball game they believed maintained the cycles of the sun and moon?
A. Olmec
B. Toltec
C. Aztec
D. Maya
22 . Which culture built a road system similar to that of the Assyrians to link all parts of the empire?
A. Kwakiutl
B. Apache
C. Inca
D. Olmec
23 . The Anasazi people were distinguished for building
A. cliff dwellings.
B. large earthen mounds.
C. ball courts.
D. a step pyramid.
24 . Which three food crops made their way from the Americas to Africa and Eurasia, resulting in larger and healthier populations?
A. turnips, beets, beans
B. rice, wheat, olives
C. grapes, dates, sugar
D. corn, peanuts, sweet potatoes
25 . The term "Mesoamerica" refers to the
A. table-top land planted upon by the Anasazi.
B. region between North and South America.
C. Middle Ages of the Americas.
D. islands of the Caribbean.
26 . What term describes the Spanish soldiers who took great risks to take control of and explore the Americas?
A. conquistadors
B. companero
C. vaquero
D. gaucho
27 . What made Spain the most important country in Europe during the 1500s?
A. their control of the slave trade
B. their ships that wiped out piracy
C. the flow of gold and silver into their economy
D. their leadership in the Catholic Council
28 . What economic condition occurs when there is more money than goods to purchase?
A. interest
B. profit
C. capital
D. inflation
29 . A favorable balance of trade is achieved by
A. using money of a standardized value.
B. mining equal amounts of gold and silver.
C. balancing weights and measures on exports.
D. selling more goods than are bought from foreign powers.
30 . In which of the following areas would a map have shown Portuguese colonies around 1600?
This might help with some of your homework questions. The rest you will have to research for yourself
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
the bjp claims that dr.manmohan singhs government has done "nothing" for the people..for the country…they have eve resorted to calling Dr.Singh nikamma..useless…and their people on y!a have faithfully followed their line..i’d like to ask them..is this nothing??
• It has restored secular and Constitutional values in governance. It has also made administrationmarkedly more transparent. The Right to Information Act, 2005 is a historic legislation. It is enablinglakhs of our citizens in villages, towns and cities to demand responsiveness and accountability frompublic officials and government at all levels.
• It has enacted the path-breaking National Rural Employment Guarantee Act which is being implementedin all districts to provide 100 days of legally guaranteed employment to each rural household seekingemployment in public works programmes. Not only has livelihood security been provided to many lakhpoor rural families but durable community assets have also been created.
• It has started and achieved considerable progress on the ambitious Bharat Nirman programme totransform rural India by expanding and providing irrigation, all-weather roads, houses for the poor,drinking water, electricity for all poor families and phone connectivity in all villages.
• It has brought comfort and hope to crores of our farmers and their families by (i) increasing the MSPand procurement prices; (ii) by waiving loans to the tune of Rs 65,000 crore; (iii) by increasing threefoldcredit from banks and reducing interest rates on crop loans; and (iv) by extending irrigation facilities.
• It has launched the National Rural Health Mission which has already made a positive impact byimproving the quality and accessibility of primary health care in villages. More children are now beingdelivered under the care of trained health professionals. Around six and a half lakh women have beentrained and posted as accredited social health activists (ASHAs).
• It has significantly empowered the weaker sections of society by (i) giving scheduled tribes andtraditional forest dwellers rights over land they cultivate in forest areas; (ii) by providing reservationsfor OBC students in all professional institutions; (iii) by passing a new law to protect women fromdomestic violence; (iv) by giving women equal rights to inherit property; and (v) by enhancing hugelythe scholarships for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, minorities and OBCs to pursue college anduniversity education.
• It has imparted a new momentum to the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan for primary education. It has alsointroduced a cooked mid-day meal scheme in all primary schools that feeds 15 crore children every day.At the same time, it has for the first time in five decades, increased the number of colleges, universities,and institutes of technology, management and information technology. The investment in highereducation in the XIth Five Year Plan (2007-08 to 2011-12) will witness a huge increase – five times theinvestment in the previous five years.
• It has delivered five years of record economic growth. This has enabled an unprecedented step-up ingovernment spending particularly on (i) education and health; (ii) on agriculture and rural development;(iii) infrastructure like power and railways; and (iv) municipal services in towns and cities. Thiseconomic growth has enabled the introduction of the Aam Admi Bima Yojana (life insurance cover) forone and a half crore landless households, the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (medical insurance cover)for six crore unorganized sector workers living below the poverty line and the Indira Gandhi NationalOld Age Pension scheme for elder citizens over 65 years of age and living below the poverty line.
• It has initiated the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) with an outlay ofRs.1 lakh crore in 63 cities for upgrading infrastructure and for providing basic services to the urbanpoor. Work amounting to over Rs.42,000 crore is in progress covering areas like water supply, sanitationand urban transport. 14 lakh houses for the poor are under construction. Governance reforms underJNNURM has increased the availability of housing in the 63 cities. A major programme for improvingpower supply in 1,420 towns and cities has also begun.
• It has ensured that all States in the country received financial resources from the Centre for developmentschemes and programmes at a scale never known before. Unlike the NDA’s record during 1999-2004, noState has faced discrimination in the matter of funds from the Central Government. Sensitive States ofthe northeast and Jammu and Kashmir have benefited enormously and are seeing development activitieson a very large scale. For the first time, the Backward Regions Grant Fund with an annual allocation ofover Rs 5000 crore for 250 of the poorest districts is being implemented through panchayats.
• It has earned for India a new respect and stature internationally. Civil nuclear a
• It has earned for India a new respect and stature internationally. Civil nuclear agreements have beenentered into with many countries entirely on our terms. India has today a place of honour in everyglobal forum. The sustained campaign led by the Congress President has resulted in the declaration ofGandhi Jayanti as International Day of Non-Violence by the United Nations
i know its a long list..but please go through it before you answer..if you can
Good Job in consolidating high level achievements of the Indian government. Why don’t I post the entire report card? That will help you answering any questions posted by users? This report card is until 2008.
http://pmindia.nic.in/upa_en_2004-08.pdf
Edit 1:
@ Ratnesh Singh:
Mid Day Meal Scheme: Center provides the funds for this scheme and monitoring the mid day meal on daily basis. Also has provisions for monitoring this scheme. Why are teachers monitoring the cooking process?
http://india.gov.in/sectors/education/mid_day_meal.php
Arrangements for local level monitoring
Representatives of Gram Panchayats/Gram Sabhas, members of VECs, PTAs, SDMCs as well as Mothers’ Committees are required to monitor the (i) regularity and wholesomeness of the mid day meal served to children, (ii) cleanliness in cooking and serving of the mid day meal, (iii) timeliness in procurement of good quality ingredients, fuel, etc. (iv) implementation of varied menu, (v) social and gender equity. This is required to be done on a daily basis.
Display of Information under Right to Information Act
In order to ensure that there is transparency and accountability, all schools and centres where the programme is being implemented are required to display information suo-moto. This includes information on:
Quality of food grains received, date of receipt.
Quantity of food grains utilized.
Other ingredients purchased, utilized
Number of children given mid day meal.
Daily Menu
Roster of Community Members involved in the programme.
Inspections by State Government Officers
Officers of the State Government/UTs belonging to the Departments of Revenue, Rural Development, Education and other related sectors, such as Women and Child Development, Food, Health are also required to inspect schools and centres where the programme is being implemented. It has been recommended that 25% of primary schools/EGS & AIE centres are visited every quarter.
http://www.education.nic.in/mdm/FINAL_Guidelines_MDM_19_sept.pdf
NREGA and corruption, for any corruption in India the first and foremost responsible parties are we. We the citizens are the one encouraging corruption on all the level. We start corruption since the child is borne, we pay bribe right from birth registration to death registration. Unless we stop that, and be ready to fight that hassle, we have no moral right to talk to about corruption.
Loan Waiver: I would put it other way round, other than UPA opposition everyone knows what benefits did it do to the common man and that is they UPA returned to the power. It is proved in parliament elections as well as assembly elections in Vidharbha.
Reservations, I am all against caste based reservations, but to answer your comments, those who are benefited from reservation will say that reservation is good, but others will say it is bad.
Edit # 2: I am not sure if the citizens of India really understand the difference between the State governments responsibilities and central government’s responsibilities? I am not also not sure, if they understand that in most of the cases, Central government only plans, funds and directs the schemes, without proper implementation from local governing bodies, no scheme can be implemented correctly.
How can you deny the changes the union government has brought in and is directly impacting the life of "AAM ADAAME"? The best example the new Tax Code. Can someone on deny that would increase the take home of middle class family by 15-20%? How about the Mandatory Education for children under 12 that is still under discussion and I am not sure if that was included in last education reform?
If you want to just sit and criticize Union Government though enjoy the development provided by the very same government that is your wish. I have courage to appreciate the good work of BJP government in my state Madhya Pradesh, I do appreciate DMK and AIADMK’s efforts to make Chennai as hub for Auto Industry at the same time criticize the wrong decision of Congress when it make though I am a hard code Congressman. But for me, India is first, not the party.
If you have aver been in a Great Plains winter, you’d know–they can be utterly brutal. Livestock often froze to death for lack of shelter. There were no crop fields back then, so there was nothing between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains to stop the wind but short grass. I have been in Oklahoma City in July when the temperature was 104 degrees for weeks at a stretch and the wind was blowing 60 m.p.h. "Wind comes sweeping down the plains," indeed. The right plow blades to break through the tough plains grasses had not yet been developed, nor were there hybrids of grains adapted to the arid climate and the temperature extremes. Water for crops and livestock was scarce. There no forests on the Plains, and wood for building and fuel was hard to come by. It was too early for the transcontinental railroads, so towns tended to hug the few rivers and be very far apart. You might have been fifty miles from your nearest neighbor, and there were no roads AT ALL. And the Plains Indian tribes did not take kindly to the white intruders who killed their game and encroached on their lifestyle. They were pioneers before they were settlers.
If you have aver been in a Great Plains winter, you’d know–they can be utterly brutal. Livestock often froze to death for lack of shelter. There were no crop fields back then, so there was nothing between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains to stop the wind but short grass. I have been in Oklahoma City in July when the temperature was 104 degrees for weeks at a stretch and the wind was blowing 60 m.p.h. "Wind comes sweeping down the plains," indeed. The right plow blades to break through the tough plains grasses had not yet been developed, nor were there hybrids of grains adapted to the arid climate and the temperature extremes. Water for crops and livestock was scarce. There no forests on the Plains, and wood for building and fuel was hard to come by. It was too early for the transcontinental railroads, so towns tended to hug the few rivers and be very far apart. You might have been fifty miles from your nearest neighbor, and there were no roads AT ALL. And the Plains Indian tribes did not take kindly to the white intruders who killed their game and encroached on their lifestyle. They were pioneers before they were settlers.
The recent collaboration of reallocated banality can be trace to andante respiration. Reorganizing the economic stratify is the marmalade of the nation and we hold the testimony of decency.
Who agrees with me?
yes, i agree with you.
The recent collaboration of reallocated banality can be trace to andante respiration. Reorganizing the economic stratify is the marmalade of the nation and we hold the testimony of decency.
Who agrees with me?
yes, i agree with you.
Complex because we all are responsible for some emissions. But will peoples subject to death, injury or loss of livelihood ever have recourse for compensation from major polluters? Will those who pollute excessively knowingly or recklessly face punishment?
Why a single polluter Baccheus? If ten people attack a person they are all liable.
Ah Bad Moon Rising, personal attendance at the court perhaps not required for hundreds of millions of people but perhaps aggravated offenders singled out?
yes, but not in the near future.
at some point, nations will suffer, and other nations will be responsible.
however, the world is nowhere near accepting that responsibility.
Bombs and Bribes
What if tomorrow morning you woke up to headlines that yet another Chinese drone bombing on US soil killed several dozen ranchers in a rural community while they were sleeping? That a drone aircraft had come across the Canadian border in the middle of the night and carried out the latest of many attacks? What if it was claimed that many of the victims harbored anti-Chinese sentiments, but most of the dead were innocent women and children? And what if the Chinese administration, in an effort to improve its public image in the US, had approved an aid package to send funds to help with American roads and schools and promote Chinese values here?
Most Americans would not stand for it. Yet the above hypothetical events are similar to what our government is doing in Pakistan. Last week, Congress did approve an aid package for Pakistan for the stated purposes of improving our image and promoting democracy. I again made the point on the floor of the House that still no one seems to hear: What if this happened on US soil? What if innocent Americans were being killed in repeated drone attacks carried out by some foreign force who was trying to fix our problems for us? Would sending money help their image? If another nation committed this type of violence and destruction on our homeland, would we be at all interested in adopting their values?
Sadly, one thing that has entirely escaped modern American foreign policy is empathy. Without much humility or regard for human life, our foreign policy has been reduced to alternately bribing and bombing other nations, all with the stated goal of “promoting democracy”. But if a country democratically elects a leader who is not sufficiently pro-American, our government will refuse to recognize them, will impose sanctions on them, and will possibly even support covert efforts to remove them. Democracy is obviously not what we are interested in. It is more likely that our government is interested in imposing its will on other governments. This policy of endless intervention in the affairs of others is very damaging to American liberty and security.
If we were really interested in democracy, peace, prosperity and safety, we would pursue more free trade with other countries. Free and abundant trade is much more conducive to peace because it is generally bad business to kill your customers. When one’s livelihood is on the line, and the business agreements are mutually beneficial, it is in everyone’s best interests to maintain cooperative and friendly relations and not kill each other. But instead, to force other countries to bend to our will, we impose trade barriers and sanctions. If our government really wanted to promote freedom, Americans would be free to travel and trade with whoever they wished. And, if we would simply look at our own policies around the world through the eyes of others, we would understand how these actions make us more targeted and therefore less safe from terrorism. The only answer is get back to free trade with all and entangling alliances with none. It is our bombs and sanctions and condescending aid packages that isolate us.
Tom, you truly are an idiot. Is that the best answer you can come up with? You see something you disagree with and you have to act like a child? Your a class act.
Nice grammar Democrat. Let me know where you went to school so I can make sure my kids never go there.
Truer words were never spoken. Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
our milk production has increased by 30%
http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/10/06/news25.asp
our human development index per the UN has grown more than half a point year upon year and we are at the top echelon for human development in our region
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_091/Oct1254755696CH.html
We have excellent and comprehensive settlement programmes for IDPs with great partners such as China, Japan and Iran but the pricing needs to be brought in line with reality.
http://www.island.lk/2009/10/06/news12.html
Rohitha should be mindful of his words and actions vis-a-vis the foreign service
http://www.slbc.lk/index.php/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1408-government-emphasizes-that-sovereignty-will-not-be-sacrifice-for-perks-and-benefits-
No matter how the UN might postulate they should allow, accomodate and fund proper temporary accomodations for IDPs specifically getting this population out of tents and into structured units at IDP centers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8291963.stm
We thank the US State Department for issuing a retraction on the Clinton statement but the reality exists that proper protocols would encourage that such a detraction go to the head of state from a member of the Presidential Cabinet.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/10/06/news01.asp
It is very lopsided that there is allegedly 8 B US in the less than penny ante stock market but that there is no assistance for these greatly needed resettlement and livelihood programmes run per Central Government directive.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_438491.html
http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/fullstory.php?nid=1286664376#
Isn’t 8B the same amount that went missing in the Timor Leste incident? I wonder if this is what Waldner-Ferrero considers aide?
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=318457&version=1&template_id=44&parent_id=24
Marvelous news about the President’s upcoming visit to the birthplace of the Buddha.
CHECK DRAFTS NOW RAJA/BEN B
CHECK DRAFTS NOW RAJA/GOTHY/PMR/BEN B
Nothing can stop the advancement of Srilanka. There may be minor hiccups now and then, but who doesn’t?
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