Question: Who started writing poety during the Qing dynasty?
Answer: women

Question: What was the name of Pu Songling's collection of short stories?
Answer: Strange Stories

Question: Who wrote the novel Dream of the Red Chamber?
Answer: Cao Xueqin

Question: What was the name of Shen Fu's memoir?
Answer: Six Chapters of a Floating Life

Question: Who wrote the Suiyuan Shidan?
Answer: Yuan Mei

Question: What was the Suiyaun Shidan about?
Answer: recipes

Question: What was the Manchu Han Imperial Feast?
Answer: appreciation by Han Chinese for Manchu culinary customs

Question: Who are the indigenous people of the Americas descended from?
Answer: pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas

Question: What is a common term in Spanish speaking countries for the indigenous peoples?
Answer: Pueblos indígenas

Question: In Quebec, The Guianas and places in the Caribbean where English is spoken, what is the preferred term for the indigenous people of the Americas?
Answer: Amerindian

Question: What term is used in Argentina to refer to the original peoples of a continent?
Answer: Aborigen

Question: How are the indigenous people most commonly referred to by citizens of the U.S.?
Answer: Native Americans

Question: Where do most theories today attribute the settlement of the Americas as originating from?
Answer: Asia

Question: What was Beringia?
Answer: a land bridge which connected the two continents

Question: How did humans cross over to the Americas from Asia?
Answer: Beringia

Question: Most experts can at least agree that the earliest pre-modern human migration took place when?
Answer: 13,500 years ago

Question: How do the indigenous peoples explain how they came to live in the Americas?
Answer: a wide range of creation myths

Question: What incorrect term for the indigenous population originated with Christopher Columbus? 
Answer: Indian

Question: Where did Columbus believe he had arrived?
Answer: East Indies

Question: Because of Columbus' mistake, the Americas came to be known as what?
Answer: West Indies

Question: What is implied by the global term of "Indian"?
Answer: some kind of racial or cultural unity

Question: Despite fitting under the umbrella label of "Indian", Aleuts, Inuit and Yupik peoples are still considered to be what to the Americas?
Answer: indigenous

Question: What were many of the indigenous people of the Americas traditionally?
Answer: hunter-gatherers

Question: What remains as a testament to the time and work the indigenous people spent cultivating the flora of the Americas?
Answer: agricultural endowment

Question: What did many of the societies practice a mix of?
Answer: farming, hunting, and gathering

Question: Large cities, chiefdoms, monuments and empires were just some of the things created by which peoples?
Answer: indigenous

Question: What did many segments of the indigenous population also practice?
Answer: aquaculture and agriculture

Question: Belize, Chile and Greenland are just some countries with sizable populations of what peoples?
Answer: indigenous

Question: Where are there still populations of indigenous peoples?
Answer: Many parts of the Americas

Question: How many different indigenous languages are spoken in the Americas?
Answer: At least a thousand

Question: What do many indigenous cultures still practice to different extends to this day?
Answer: religion, social organization, and subsistence practices

Question: What have some indigenous peoples managed to remain in relative isolation from?
Answer: Western culture

Question: How Paleo-Indians migrated to the Americas is still a matter for what type of research?
Answer: ongoing

Question: When did humans inhabit North and South America's continents?
Answer: last

Question: What allowed people to move across Beringia to North America?
Answer: falling sea levels

Question: A small population could exist in Alaska because of it's lack of any significant what?
Answer: snowfall

Question: What confined the nomadic inhabitants to East Beringia for thousands of years?
Answer: Laurentide Ice Sheet

Question: What do studies on the genetics of the first American inhabitants conclude about their ancestral population?
Answer: single

Question: Where did the single ancestral population of all the indigenous peoples of the Americas likely develop?
Answer: in isolation

Question: How many years may the isolation of the peoples in Beringia lasted?
Answer: 10–20,000 years

Question: When did the glaciers begin to melt?
Answer: 16,500 years ago

Question: What did the people follow in the corridors between the ice sheets?
Answer: Pleistocene megafauna

Question: What does the data indicate about the population the individual was from?
Answer: directly ancestral

Question: What populations is the individual closely related to?
Answer: present North American Native American

Question: What type of divergence is implicated to have occurred between North American and South American populations?
Answer: early

Question: Theories that there were invasions which overwhelmed or assimilated previous migrants into the Americas have been what?
Answer: ruled out

Question: The term Pre-Columbian technically refers to which era?
Answer: before Christopher Columbus' voyages of 1492

Question: When was Columbus' first voyage?
Answer: 1492

Question: In practice, Pre-Columbian refers to the history of the indigenous cultures of America prior to Europeans doing what to them?
Answer: conquered or significantly influenced

Question: What term is used most often when discussing the great civilizations of the Americas?
Answer: "Pre-Columbian"

Question: What area of the Americas did the Inca Empire, Moche culture and Muisca confederation hail from?
Answer: Andes

Question: Urban settlements and complex societal hierarchies are just some of the hallmarks established by which civilizations?
Answer: pre-Columbian

Question: What had long faded prior to the first European and African arrivals?
Answer: Some of these civilizations

Question: How do we know about some of the civilizations that were gone by the time of European arrival?
Answer: oral history and through archaeological investigations

Question: What did European colonists destroy on their pyres?
Answer: written records

Question: What gave today's historians a glimpse of the culture and knowledge of the indigenous civilizations?
Answer: a few documents

Question: What had the civilizations in the Americas achieved by the time the Europeans encountered them?
Answer: many accomplishments

Question: What had the Aztec civilization constructed?
Answer: one of the largest cities in the world

Question: How big was the population of the Aztec cit of Tenochtitlan?
Answer: 200,000

Question: Astronomy and mathematics were also accomplishments of which civilizations?
Answer: American

Question: How many years of selective breeding did it take to domesticate maize?
Answer: thousands

Question: What did the European colonization forever change?
Answer: lives and cultures of the peoples of the continents

Question: How much did the population of the Americas decrease after first contact with the Europeans?
Answer: between 80 and 90%

Question: What was the leading cause of death for the native population after European contact?
Answer: disease

Question: What triad of disease epidemics ravaged the American continent?
Answer: smallpox, measles, and cholera

Question: Why did Native Americans suffer such high mortality rates to the diseases?
Answer: lack of prior exposure

Question: Who was the first group of indigenous people Columbus encountered?
Answer: the 250,000 Taínos of Hispaniola

Question: What did the Taínos represent in the Greater Antilles and Bahamas?
Answer: dominant culture

Question: What percentage of the Taínos were dead thirty years after contact with Columbus?
Answer: 70%

Question: Why were outbreaks of measles and smallpox able to so easily decimate the Taínos' population?
Answer: no immunity to European diseases