Name: Jada Sho

Test # 1 Continued:

Section 3: Short answers: Answer the following questions in complete sentences (5 pts each)

16. Describe the areas the Maya, Taino & Kalinagos were living in before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492
The Tainos lived between Amazon rivers and Orinoco in the south of america.

The Kalinagos lived deeper in the south in jungles and around the orinoco also.

The Mayans were settled in meso-america where they had been.

17. Briefly explain what a Carbon 14 test is.

A carbon 14 test is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using
the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.

18. List the areas the Maya, Taino and Kalinago were living in before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.

The areas the Mayans lived in were Mexico,Guatemala, Belize ,El-Salvador where they had always been
The Kalinagos followed the Tainos into the caribbean but they lived further south in the jungles around
Orinoco.
The Tainos' original homeland was the forest between the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers in South America.

19. Briefly describe the route taken by the Indigenous Americans to reach Central America (Caribbean) .

The route taken by the Indigenous Americans was through North America from the North Asian Mammoth
steppe via the Bering Straits (Ice Bridge) between Asia and America.

20. Briefly explain the two theories of the existence of humanity.

Human evolution is the lengthy process of change by which people originated from apelike
ancestors. Scientific evidence shows that the physical and behavioral traits shared by all people
originated from apelike ancestors and evolved over a period of approximately six million years.

Creationism- is the belief that the universe and the various forms of were created by God and
out of nothing.