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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 the Andes legends begin?

2. What did Gerald Kremer show in a 1569 Atlas?

3. What is the Iranian cataclysm?

4. Where are the Luiseno located?

5. According to Chapter 26, how many years did deglaciation last?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are Mercator-type maps especially notable?

3. Why did the Ancient Mexican civilizations believe sacrificing children would delay the destruction of the world?

4. Is it plausible that the human race was destroyed in each cycle of the Mayans "Suns" calendar?

5. What was Viracocha credited with bringing to Peru?

6. Why is it especially unusual that longitude could have been determined accurately long before the marine chronometer was invented?

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

8. In Chapter 14, how is the god Quetzlcoatl characterized?

9. How did the ancients come upon their use of pi?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does it mean that the ancient Egyptians were using pi in their architectural structures long before it was officially discovered? Does this notion support the possibility that many ancient peoples had skills or technology that were officially invented later, or is a mathematical construct a different type of ability?

Essay Topic 2

What unsolved mysteries did the author discuss in the book? How did he go about trying to solve them? What appears to be his motivation for uncovering information that might seem trivial to the average person?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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