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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much did the monolith weigh that was moved to Machu Pichu?
(a) 200 pounds.
(b) 20 tons.
(c) 200 tons.
(d) 20 pounds.

2. Where is the Great Pyramid located?
(a) Peru.
(b) Bolivia.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Central America.

3. What did the Olmecs invent?
(a) A zodiac system.
(b) Slingshots and arrows.
(c) Tools for sculpture.
(d) A calendar system.

4. When could longitude first be determined?
(a) 1570.
(b) 1576.
(c) 1770.
(d) 1776.

5. What did Philippe Buache's maps reveal?
(a) A continent covered with ice.
(b) A murky waterway crossing the continent.
(c) A clear waterway crossing the continent.
(d) A continent completely made up of water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "Ricinulei"?

2. In what forms did the god of the Andes exist?

3. What could the First Men see?

4. How did the Mayans get a complex accurate calendar?

5. What is the theory of earth-crust displacement responsible for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the explanation for early maps showing widely separated parts of the Earth?

2. What evidence is there that the Nazcan were astronomers?

3. Is it plausible that the human race was destroyed in each cycle of the Mayans "Suns" calendar?

4. Why did the Ancient Mexican civilizations believe sacrificing children would delay the destruction of the world?

5. Why is it especially unusual that longitude could have been determined accurately long before the marine chronometer was invented?

6. Why is it believed that the Tiahuanaco culture was able to migrate after a catastrophe, whereas so many other cultures were wiped out by them?

7. Based on Chapter 26, what is currently known about the history of the Ice Age?

8. What happened to the hardy, cold-adapted animals during the Ice Age?

9. Why are Mercator-type maps especially notable?

10. How did the ancients come upon their use of pi?

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