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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 changes their paths in Mayan myths?

2. How many sun cycles did the Aztecs believe in?

3. According to Chapter 27, how many years ago did the peopling of America begin?

4. Where is Lake Titicaca located?

5. How many years of darkness did the ancient Mayans experience?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Is the theory of Earth-crust displacement plausible?

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

4. In Chapter 17, how and why might these giant boulders have been moved?

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

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

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

8. How and why were the Nazca able to accomplish what they did with their lines?

9. Describe the god Viracocha's appearance.

10. Why are the Nazca lines so significant?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

According to the book, if modern civilization were to be wiped out and discovered in thousands of years, what artifacts would be found?

Essay Topic 2

Hancock noted that the granite portcullis in the Great Pyramid (pictured on page 329) seems to serve no purpose other than to make an explorer wonder why and how huge stones are moved and installed in narrow passages. Did he consider any other possible purposes? What did he ultimately conclude?

Essay Topic 3

Is this book more about the Earth itself or the civilizations who have populated it? Is there a relationship between the two, or are they separate issues that the author explored in his quest to solve mysteries?

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