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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. How did Hancock view myths in Chapter 25?
2. How high were the boulders that made up the man-made gate in Chapter 7?
3. According to Chapter 27, during what years did the Ice Age animal extinctions occur?
4. What falls from the sky in ancient Mayan myths?
5. What is the "foam of the sea"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How could the same type of vessel used in the Nile also appear in Lake Titicaca?
2. Based on Chapter 26, what is currently known about the history of the Ice Age?
3. What happened to the hardy, cold-adapted animals during the Ice Age?
4. What is the significance of the fact that so many things about the Earth seem to have been discovered long before modern man officially discovered them?
5. What was the explanation for early maps showing widely separated parts of the Earth?
6. Why is it especially unusual that longitude could have been determined accurately long before the marine chronometer was invented?
7. Is it plausible that the human race was destroyed in each cycle of the Mayans "Suns" calendar?
8. How is the origin of the Mayan's advanced learning explained?
9. In the Introduction, why did Hancock study the Admiral Piri Reis Map?
10. What evidence is there that the Nazcan were astronomers?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Describe how the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world in 2012, and many other ancient myths contain a similar warning. What did Hancock think we should do with this information?
Essay Topic 3
How did Hancock think seemingly primitive peoples like the Nazcans managed to develop an understanding of astronomy, as evidenced by the spider drawing that parallels the Orion constellation?
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