Question: What led to the last great Taínos rebellion?
Answer: Increasing punishment

Question: What behaviors did the Taínos begin to adopt after years of mistreatment?
Answer: suicidal

Question: What did Taínos women start doing to their infants?
Answer: aborting or killing

Question: Why would ingesting untreated cassava be a bad idea?
Answer: violent poison

Question: Who was sent to negotiate a peace treaty with the rebels?
Answer: Francisco Barrionuevo

Question: How many years was a Taínos Cacique able to hold ou in the Baoruco Mountain Range?
Answer: thirteen

Question: What was the overwhelming reason for the decline of Native American populations?
Answer: epidemic disease

Question: Old World diseases accounted for up to what percentage of deaths among the native New World population?
Answer: 90 to 95%

Question: How long did it take for the Old World diseases to decimate the native population to the extent it did?
Answer: 150 years

Question: What disease killed almost a third of the population of Hispaniola in 1518?
Answer: Smallpox

Question: How did smallpox cause the Inca Civil War?
Answer: By killing the Incan ruler Huayna Capac

Question: What percent of the Aboriginal population of North America was killed in the first hundred years after first contact by smallpox and measles?
Answer: between 50 and 67 per cent

Question: How much of the native population near Massachusetts was killed by smallpox in the epidemic between 1617 and 1619?
Answer: 90 per cent

Question: Who were the Native Americans exposed to smallpox because of?
Answer: Europeans

Question: When did smallpox read the lands of the Iroquois?
Answer: by 1679

Question: What did the Indian Vaccination Act of 1832 establish?
Answer: a smallpox vaccination program for Native Americans

Question: What Empire brought horses to the Americas?
Answer: Spanish

Question: What kind of impact did the re-emergence of horses have on some Native American cultures?
Answer: profound

Question: How long had horses been extinct in the Americas prior to their re-introduction?
Answer: 7500 years

Question: What did some tribes achieve by domesticating horses?
Answer: great success

Question: What enabled some tribes to expand territory, increase trade and capture more game?
Answer: horses

Question: What did the indigenous peoples of America cultivate over the course of thousands of years?
Answer: a large array of plant species

Question: What percent of worldwide crops in cultivation derive from the efforts of the America's indigenous people?
Answer: 50–60%

Question: How were new species and strains of crops developed?
Answer: artificial selection

Question: What was the origin of maize?
Answer: wild teosinte grasses

Question: What products sometimes retain their native names in both English and Spanish?
Answer: agricultural

Question: Where was a center of early agriculture?
Answer: South American highlands

Question: Based on genetic testing, what has been suggested about the origin of the potato?
Answer: single

Question: Where did the potato originate?
Answer: area of southern Peru

Question: How long ago was the decedent of 99% of all modern potatoes cultivated as long ago as?
Answer: 10,000 years ago

Question: What event in 850 AD coincided with the collapse of Mayan civilization?
Answer: persistent drought

Question: When did the North American natives begin farming?
Answer: approximately 4,000 years ago

Question: What had pottery become 4,000 years ago in the Americas?
Answer: common

Question: What did technology make feasible when it came to trees?
Answer: small-scale felling

Question: How did Archaic Indians use fire?
Answer: a controlled manner

Question: What was the intentional burning of vegetation intended to mimic?
Answer: effects of natural fires

Question: What global industry owes its existence to having been domesticated by indigenous Americans?
Answer: Many crops

Question: What is arguably the most important crop in the world?
Answer: corn

Question: Squash, beans, and peppers are all examples of what type of crop?
Answer: significant

Question: What type of bean is used to make chocolate?
Answer: cocoa

Question: Who do we owe gratitude for even some species of cotton to?
Answer: indigenous Americans

Question: What did geographical zones encourage the sharing of?
Answer: Cultural practices

Question: What did people in the same reason adopt?
Answer: similar technologies and social organizations

Question: Where did millennia of coexistence produce a culture with advanced agricultural and social patterns?
Answer: Mesoamerica

Question: How long was there a homogeneous culture on the North American plains?
Answer: until the 19th century

Question: What creature did the nomadic hunter-gatherers of the plains hunt?
Answer: buffalo

Question: What was one of the many achievements of the American cultures?
Answer: development of writing

Question: What region produced several writing systems independent of other areas of the world?
Answer: the Mesoamerican region

Question: What is presumed to be written upon the Cascajal Block?
Answer: extensive text

Question: When were writing systems being created in the Americas?
Answer: beginning in the 1st millennium BCE

Question: When has the Olmec tablet been dated to?
Answer: 900 BCE

Question: What is the Mayan writing system the only known pre-Columbian one to completely represent this?
Answer: spoken language of its community

Question: What writing system combined phonetic symbols and logograms?
Answer: Maya

Question: What signs play a significant role in the Mayan's writing system?
Answer: syllabic

Question: How many different glyphs in total does the Mayan writing system have?
Answer: more than one thousand

Question: How many of the Mayan glyphs had phonetic or syllabic interpretations?
Answer: some two hundred

Question: When were indigenous scribes taught to use Latin letters?
Answer: the sixteenth century

Question: Who taught indigenous scribes to write their languages?
Answer: Spanish

Question: What were a large number of the local documents in regards to?
Answer: lawsuits and other legal matters

Question: What were Spanish translations at the time made for?
Answer: legal cases

Question: What viewpoint have scholars translated and analyzed documents to writes histories from?
Answer: indigenous

Question: What characteristic did the majority of Native American music have?
Answer: monophonic

Question: What did traditional Native American music center around?
Answer: drumming

Question: What are examples of popular percussive instruments of Native Americans?
Answer: Rattles, clappersticks, and rasps

Question: How were flutes constructed by the Native Americans?
Answer: rivercane, cedar, and other woods

Question: How many strings did the Apache fiddle have?
Answer: single

Question: What feature did the music of Central America have?
Answer: pentatonic

Question: What role did music play in the religious festivities? 
Answer: inseparable from

Question: What instruments were used to make music by the Central Americans?
Answer: large variety of percussion and wind

Question: Where did archaeologists find a depiction of a Mayan stringed instrument?
Answer: a jar in Guatemala

Question: What did the Mayan's stringed instrument sound like when played?
Answer: a jaguar's growl

Question: What comprises a major category in the world art collection?
Answer: Visual arts by indigenous peoples

Question: Pottery, weavings and carvings are just some of the contributions to art by which peoples? 
Answer: indigenous

Question: Why did the U.S. pass the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990?
Answer: too many artists were posing as Native Americans

Question: What does the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 require artists to prove they're enrolled in?
Answer: a state or federally recognized tribe

Question: When was a national Native Arts and Cultures Foundation established?
Answer: 2007