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What makes Poverty Point's location Important?
a) The availability for trade
b) Its location along the Mississippi River
c) The Natural resources located in the area
d) all of the above

Why do you believe Poverty Point was located adjacent to the Mississippi River?
a) trade
b) rich soil
c) food
d) all of the above

Based on your knowledge of how physical geography shapes an area’s cultural geography, what do you believe was the basis for Poverty Point’s economy?
a) Trade
b) rich soil
c) food
d) none of the above

What makes Poverty Point different from most hunter-gathers societies?
a) Econimic system
b) Farming
c) Religion
d) all the above

Poverty Point was considered a marvel of the ancient world because?
a) t was founded by Native Americans who were considered hunter-gatherers
b) It had great crops to farm with a variety of food.
c) It had massive earthworks created in a short amount of time.
d) It was located on the Mississippi River.

Poverty Point had a dock so boats could stop and trade in the plaza. This is an example of what type of characteristic?
a) Economic Characteristics
b) Cultural Characteristics
c) Geographic/Historical
d) Political

Archaeologists have found figurines shaped like people which could be used for what reasons
a) to honor ancestors, or for religious purposes
b) To honor the dead and for war
c) To ward off evil spirits and to curse their enemies
d) Religious purposes and to fight

Poverty Point was the center of a huge trading network. This is what type of characteristic?
a) Cultural
b) Political
c) Economic
d) geographical/historical

Archaeologists have found bones of many animals including deer, fish, squirrel, and turtles. This proves residents of Poverty Point ate a variety of animals to survive and that they were skilled hunters and fishers.
a) residents of Poverty Point ate a variety of animals to survive and that they were skilled hunters and fishers.
b) were religious
c) Were good traders
d) Were skilled craftsmen

Poverty Point required a lot of work to build which shows families could have lived there for generation. THis is what type of
a) cultural
b) political
c) geographic/historical
d) economic

What makes Poverty Point's location so important?
a) Close to the Mississippi River , because you can travel and it provides food and water.
b) It is near large towns
c) It is between two major trading locations
d) It is protected form attack because it is surrounded by mountains

A person who hunts animals or gathers food. They provide for their family.
a) Hunter Gathers
b) Freemen
c) Barbarians
d) Nomads

Why were most hunter gatherers not able to settle in cities?
a) There were better options to hunt outside of the city.
b) The animals can hide better in the city
c) They could not take living so close to others after living in the wild.
d) They could not speak the language

Why are hunter gatherer societies usually not classified as complex?
a) They had to know how to hunt, they were only worried about providing
b) They were not able to think in a complex way
c) They had poor eyesight
d) They did not try to improve

How do we know that Mound A only took 30-90 days to build?
a) They had no layers in the dirt, no insects thriving in the dirt, and no tree stumps or plants grew in the dirt inside.
b) That is how long they lived in those times
c) That was all the good weather they could expect
d) Because it says so in their written record

Native Americans at Poverty Point did not have a writing system. How do archeologists know so much about Poverty Point?
a) By the artifacts they left behind, Mound A, they may have had stories told by mouth.
b) They taught their children to write
c) They recorded themselves
d) They used symbols

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