New Mexico Fall Semester Study Guide

Question 1

The Pueblo Revolt was led by ______ and took place in_______.

Accepted Answer

Pope, 1680

Question 2

These groups lived a nomadic lifestyle.

Accepted Answer

Navajo and Apache

Question 3

This term means such things as the surface of the land, rainfall, altitude, and temperature.

Accepted Answer

Geographical conditions

Question 4

What has kept the Pueblo peoples divided for centuries?

Accepted Answer

Different languages

Question 5

What do the Navajo "Dine" and Apache "Inde" terms mean?

Accepted Answer

"The People"

Question 6

What was Onate's first duty in New Mexico?

Accepted Answer

To spread the Catholic faith

Question 7

What is permission granted by a king to settle certain lands called?

Accepted Answer

Grant

Question 8

What did Cabeza de Vaca accomplish?

Accepted Answer

He walked across two-thirds of North America

Question 9

In what kind of homes did the Navajo live?

Accepted Answer

Hogans

Question 10

What is unique about the four corners?

Accepted Answer

It is the only place where four states meet at an absolute location.

Question 11

Where does the state of New Mexico rank in terms of size?

Accepted Answer

5th

Question 12

After Coronado, why were missionaries still interested in New Mexico?

Accepted Answer

They wanted to save the souls of Natives

Question 13

What society traces its ancestral descent through the female line?

Accepted Answer

Matrilineal Society

Question 14

This is an area that is similar in climate, plants, animals.

Accepted Answer

Life zone

Question 15

San Gabriel was New Mexico's first capital, but this city has been our state capital for over 200 years:

Accepted Answer

Santa Fe

Question 16

Coronado's soldiers found?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 17

Pueblo Bonito, the great Anasazi pueblo was built in:

Accepted Answer

Chaco Canyon

Question 18

What happens to New Mexico's life zones as they become higher in altitude?

Accepted Answer

They become colder and wetter

Question 19

Where is New Mexico's main farming area?

Accepted Answer

in the Basin and Range Province, along the Rio Grande

Question 20

What was the MAIN crop grown by the Pueblo Indians?

Accepted Answer

corn

Question 21

Clovis and Folsom people are identified by their:

Accepted Answer

Spear points

Question 22

What did Cabeza de Vaca claim he had seen in New Mexico?

Accepted Answer

Arrowheads made from emeralds, large houses and trade with turquoises.

Question 23

The Navajo and Apache share a common:

Accepted Answer

Athabaskan Language

Question 24

Which culture developed in the Four Corners area?

Accepted Answer

Anasazi

Question 25

What was Columbus seeking on his 1492 Voyage?

Accepted Answer

An all water route to the Far East

Question 26

Why were the Spaniards interested in lands north of New Spain?

Accepted Answer

They wanted to find the seven cities of gold

Question 27

What do archaeologists believe about Anasazi women?

Accepted Answer

They owned the property

Question 28

What was the central part of Pueblo life?

Accepted Answer

Religion

Question 29

The Anasazi had round, underground ceremonial rooms called :

Accepted Answer

Kivas

Question 30

How did Onate deal with the Indians at Acoma?

Accepted Answer

He cut off warrior&#x27;s foot, enslaved many and sent some to convents

Question 31

Where did the first Americans most likely come from?

Accepted Answer

Siberia

Question 32

In what part of the United States is New Mexico located?

Accepted Answer

Southwest

Question 33

Which non-pueblo group borrowed many ideas from the Pueblo peoples?

Accepted Answer

Navajos

Question 34

Why did Castano de Sosa's colony fail?

Accepted Answer

He did not have a grant from the king

Question 35

Who were the earliest people to live in New Mexico?

Accepted Answer

The Big-Game Hunters

Question 36

If someone died inside a Navajo hogan, they would often _______ ?

Accepted Answer

burn it to the ground.

Question 37

After the Anasazi declined, New Mexico's Pueblos were located:

Accepted Answer

In the Rio Grande Valley and the Zuni-Acoma area

Question 38

Which group were the first farmers in New Mexico?

Accepted Answer

The Mogollon

Question 39

What did the people of the Desert Culture develop?

Accepted Answer

Gardening/Farming

Question 40

Who was New Mexico's first historian?

Accepted Answer

Gaspar Perez de Villagra

Question 41

What did El Turco tell Coronado about Quivira?

Accepted Answer

It was rich in gold

Question 42

Navajo sand painting is most used with what ceremony?

Accepted Answer

Curing ceremony

Question 43

This term refers to the Spanish king's agent in New Spain.

Accepted Answer

Viceroy

Question 44

Raiding was a part of these nomadic peoples' culture :

Accepted Answer

Navajo and Apache

Question 45

What did Coronado find at Zuni?

Accepted Answer

Six poor villages

Question 46

Over half the water used for irrigation comes from this source.

Accepted Answer

ground water

Question 47

What Spanish word meaning "town" was given to the Native American villages of New Mexico?

Accepted Answer

pueblo

Question 48

What were the three main reasons Spain wanted to explore land to the North of New Spain?

Accepted Answer

Searching for Gold, for Glory and in the name of God.

Question 49

Archaeologists think the Mogollon believed in an afterlife because:

Accepted Answer

they buried their dead with pots.

Question 50

What key factor determines where people can settle and is also New Mexico's biggest shortcoming?

Accepted Answer

water

New Mexico Fall Semester Study Guide

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New Mexico Fall Semester Study Guide

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