Questions on The Americas and Oceania
1. How did humans come to settle in all parts of the Americas and in Oceania?
The first large wave of migration from Siberia to Alaska but small numbers of migrants crossed the Bering land bridge by watercraft, sailing or drifting with the currents from NE Asia down the west coast of North America. By 9500 BCE they had reached the southernmost part of South America. At least 60,000 years before the present human migrants entered Australia and New Guinea via watercraft – rafts or canoes fitted with sails. The earliest inhabitants of Oceania also migrated over land when sea levels were still low – to the Bismarcks, the Solomons, and other small island groups new New Guinea.
2. What traditions begun by the Olmecs were later adopted by other Mesoamerican societies?
Olmecs made astronomical observations and created a calendar to help them keep track of the seasons. They also invented a system of writing, rituals involving human sacrifice and invented a distinctive ball game. Also, their cultivation of maize and their construction of ceremonial centers with temple pyramids.
3. How did the religion of the Maya reflect and reinforce their economy and governmental structure?
4. What role did human sacrifice play in early American societies?
5. For what were the people of the Teotihuacan culture most noted?
6. How did the geography of South America influence the development of the early complex societies there?
7. Compare and contrast the societies that existed under the Chavín cult and the Mochica State.
8. Where and how did agriculture spread in Oceania?
9. Describe the origins and development and the decline of the Lapita society.
10. In general, how did political structures evolve on the islands of Oceania?
Chapter 20 – Worlds Apart: The Americas and Oceania
Focus Questions
1. How did the Mexican people establish their authority over the peoples of central Mexico? How did the Mexican treat conquered
The first large wave of migration from Siberia to Alaska but small numbers of migrants crossed the Bering land bridge by watercraft, sailing or drifting with the currents from NE Asia down the west coast of North America. By 9500 BCE they had reached the southernmost part of South America. At least 60,000 years before the present human migrants entered Australia and New Guinea via watercraft – rafts or canoes fitted with sails. The earliest inhabitants of Oceania also migrated over land when sea levels were still low – to the Bismarcks, the Solomons, and other small island groups new New Guinea.
2. What traditions begun by the Olmecs were later adopted by other Mesoamerican societies?
Olmecs made astronomical observations and created a calendar to help them keep track of the seasons. They also invented a system of writing, rituals involving human sacrifice and invented a distinctive ball game. Also, their cultivation of maize and their construction of ceremonial centers with temple pyramids.
3. How did the religion of the Maya reflect and reinforce their economy and governmental structure?
4. What role did human sacrifice play in early American societies?
5. For what were the people of the Teotihuacan culture most noted?
6. How did the geography of South America influence the development of the early complex societies there?
7. Compare and contrast the societies that existed under the Chavín cult and the Mochica State.
8. Where and how did agriculture spread in Oceania?
9. Describe the origins and development and the decline of the Lapita society.
10. In general, how did political structures evolve on the islands of Oceania?
Chapter 20 – Worlds Apart: The Americas and Oceania
Focus Questions
1. How did the Mexican people establish their authority over the peoples of central Mexico? How did the Mexican treat conquered