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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 illusion appears on the Temple of Kululkan?

2. Where is Lake Titicaca located?

3. How long was Queen Maud Land ice-free?

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

5. What is "Ricinulei"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How could the same type of vessel used in the Nile also appear in Lake Titicaca?

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

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

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

5. Why are the Nazca lines so significant?

6. Why are Mercator-type maps especially notable?

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

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

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

10. According to Chapter 27, what parts of the world were submerged by flooding during the Ice Age?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does this book treat the theory of evolution?

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 are the ramifications of Hancock's discoveries about the history of Antarctica and the South Pole? How do they relate to contemporary environmental concerns?

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