Ch 1

Question 0

First people to set foot on Beringia

Answer 0

Paleo- Indians

Question 1

Pile of land that existed 20,000 years ago connecting Asia and North America

Answer 1

Beringia

Question 2

The agricultural movement did what?

Answer 2

Liberated nomadic a from relying on hunting and gathering

Question 3

What did the Natives trade with the Europeans and what did they get in return?

Answer 3

Beaver pelts for metal

Question 4

Did men or women Native Americans convert to Christianity more?

Answer 4

Men

Question 5

What were contributing factors the the Native Americans dying?

Answer 5

• animal population wiped out by whites
• reliant on guns
• disease (measles, smallpox, influenza)

Question 6

What is the term that refers to the exchanging of disease, crops, and livestock between Europe and the New World?

Answer 6

Colombian Exchange

Question 7

What percentage of population loss did Native Americans experience within the first century of white contact?

Answer 7

90-95 %

Question 8

Self governing communities organized around lineage, similar to Native American communities.

Answer 8

Stateless Societies

Question 9

Of what nationality were the first Europeans in Africa?

Answer 9

Portuguese

Question 10

Why did the Portuguese travel to Africa?

Answer 10

Gold and Slaves

Question 11

What group of people established the first settlements in the New World?

Answer 11

Vikings

Question 12

What Viking founded Greenland?

Answer 12

Erik the Red

Question 13

European Movement that focused on expansion of arts, sciences, and literacy.

Answer 13

The Renaissance

Question 14

The new political system in England founded during the Renaissance Era.

Answer 14

The New Monarchs

Question 15

This person mapped the known world and discovered that the world was round, during the renaissance era

Answer 15

Plomoly

Question 16

Political authority and geographical advances made this country a world power in 1500

Answer 16

Spain

Question 17

Men that traveled to the New World in search of glory and riches

Answer 17

Conquistadors

Question 18

Where did Columbus want to sail to?

Answer 18

Cathay (china)

Question 19

Who did Columbus initially propose his plan to sail to Cathay to?

Answer 19

The King of Portugal

Question 20

What country gave Columbus financial backing to travel to Cathay?

Answer 20

Spain

Question 21

Where did Columbus think he had landed upon discovering the New World?

Answer 21

Indies

Question 22

Which conquistador proved that the New World was distinct from Asia. (Hint: he named the new world after himself)

Answer 22

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 23

Which Spanish conquistador defeated the Aztecs in Mexico? Resulted in Spain becoming the most wealthy country in Europe

Answer 23

Hernan Cortes

Question 24

What was Mexico renamed after Cortes's victory?

Answer 24

New Spain

Question 25

Cruel system in which Spanish colonists were granted a plot of land and Native American slaves

Answer 25

Encomienda System

Question 26

A person of mixed Spanish and Native American descent

Answer 26

Mestizo

Question 27

A person of mixed black and white descent

Answer 27

Mullato

Question 28

Which French explorer discovered Canada?

Answer 28

Jacques Cartier

Question 29

What country was Jaques Cartier originally in search for when he discovered Canada?

Answer 29

china

Question 30

This French explorer settled Canada and founded Quebec

Answer 30

Samuel De Champlain

Question 31

Forrest Runners, established settlements in Louisiana

Answer 31

Coureurs Des bois

Question 32

First English explorer to travel to the New World

Answer 32

John Cabot

Question 33

His marriage was one of the factors that initially kept England from exploring the new world

Answer 33

Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon

Question 34

Why did King Henry VIII divorce Catherine of Aragon?

Answer 34

She could not give him a son

Question 35

Said that the King was the head of the church in England

Answer 35

Act of Supremacy

Question 36

German Monk that challenged Roman Catholicism. Said that god spoke through the bible not through the pope or priests

Answer 36

Martin Luther

Question 37

Said that god had a predetermined fate for everyone. Calvinism named after him.

Answer 37

John Calvin

Question 38

Queen that wanted to end religious turmoil

Answer 38

Queen Elizabeth

Question 39

The defeat of the Spanish Armada refers to

Answer 39

King Philip II of Spain miserably attempting to dethrone the Queen Elizabeth

Question 40

Englishman who executed Irish rebels without mercy (including women and children)

Answer 40

Sir Humphrey Gilbert

Question 41

English colony in New World that mysteriously disappeared

Answer 41

Roanoke

Question 42

Who was the leader of Roanoke?

Answer 42

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 43

This persons book "The Principle of Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation" was instrumental to encouraging Englishman that It was in England's best interest to colonizing the New World

Answer 43

Richard Hakluyt