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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Quetzalcoatl's formulas provide?

2. What does Lake Titicaca contain?

3. What are Nazca lines?

4. How high was the man-made gate in Chapter 7?

5. What destroyed any ancient civilizations in the Olmecs area of Mexico?

Short Essay Questions

1. What evidence is there in Chapter 27 to indicate that the freeze was sudden?

2. How is the origin of the Mayan's advanced learning explained?

3. How were the findings of the Oronteus Finaeus Map verified?

4. In the Introduction, what was Hancock trying to determine?

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

6. Why are Mercator-type maps especially notable?

7. Describe how the Andes viewed Viracocha.

8. Why are stories of floods so universal?

9. According to Chapter 27, what happened to animals during the Ice Age?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does it mean that the ancient Egyptians were using pi in their architectural structures long before it was officially discovered? Does this notion support the possibility that many ancient peoples had skills or technology that were officially invented later, or is a mathematical construct a different type of ability?

Essay Topic 2

How are historical and ancient maps used throughout the book? What information do they provide, and in what cases do they disprove earlier assumptions? What is a map, and what power can it possess beyond merely providing a picture of or directions to a place?

Essay Topic 3

What was the author's main thesis statement, as summarized at the end of the book? What knowledge and experience did he use throughout the book to back up his assertions?

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