1. Compare and contrast the Native American societies that grew up in Mesoamerica and South America with those that developed in northern Mexico and the rest of North America. How do you account for some of the pronounced differences? Were there some similarities?
2. Compare and contrast the development and later decline of each of these major Indian cultures: Hohokam and Anasazi; Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian.
3. Discuss the differing ways of life of the Native Americans living in the Arctic, the Pacific Northwest, California, the Great Basin, the Southwest, the Mississippi Valley, and the Eastern Woodlands. Explain how the physical environment influenced each way of life.
4. Because the Indian peoples of the present-day United States had not developed written languages before the coming of Europeans, how have historians attempted to reconstruct Native American history? Give as many specific examples from Chapter 1 as possible.
5. Compare and contrast the descriptions of Native American culture presented in Chapter 1 with the impressions offered in movies and television.