You are an archaeologist on a team excavating an ancient site.  You find evidence of elite and commoner classes, large public buildings, and a group of people who earned their living making pottery.  This evidence suggests the site was_________.

Native American cultures in the New World almost never had negative effects on their environments.

The centers of Maya cities usually included:

What subsistence technology helped Aztec people to flourish?

The most prevalent theory on the ‘Chaco phenomenon’ is that

According to your lectures, Uruk, located in Mesopotamia, was the very first city in the world. 

A preexisting civil war among the Inka made things much easier for the Spanish conquerors.

When societies collapse all the inhabitants die and that culture no longer exists.  

The idea that pre-contact groups in the New World did not change their environment is termed:

Scholars debate whether the Mayan site of Tikal qualifies as a real city because: