Chapter 1

Question 1

The city of Tenochititlán was the capital city of which people?

Answer 1

Mexicans

Question 2

Who we’re the 1st Europeans to sail around Africa & on to India?

Answer 2

Portuguese

Question 3

What was a result of the marriage of Ferdinand & Isabella in Spain?

Answer 3

Increased Spanish Catholic exploration by sea

Question 4

After the arrival of Europeans, the greatest number of Natives die as a result of?

Answer 4

Disease

Question 5

Which statement accurately characterizes the Algonquian?

Answer 5

They lived in multifamily “long houses” & were 1 of 3 major Eastern woodland groups

Question 6

Which statement best explains why Europeans global exploration began at the time it did in the 1400s?

Answer 6

The development of large kingdom w/ centralized governments, trade based economies, & new technologies stimulate seaborn exploration

Question 7

Best explain the impact of the Protestant Reformation on the Age of Exploration & European settlement in the Americas?

Answer 7

Religious division led to conflict, spawning national competition & motivation for colonial settlement in the Americas.

Question 8

Best describe the impact in Europe of new types of foods from the Americas

Answer 8

The new foods improved the health of Europeans & sparked rapid population growth

Question 9

Bartolomé de Las Casas spoke out against?

Answer 9

The system of enforced native labor adopted by spain

Question 10

The introduction of horses to plain tribes?

Answer 10

Replaced dogs as beasts of burden

Question 11

By the 18th century Mestizos made up majority population in Mexico & New Mexico, who were they?

Answer 11

Offsprings of Spanish & Native American Parents.

Question 12

Which of the following ways was the Pueblo Revolt significant?

Answer 12

It was the greatest defeat Native Americans ever inflicted on European efforts to conquer the new world, delayed Spanish efforts to reestablish control over New Mexico

Question 13

The English attempt to establish a colony on Roanoke Island resulted in?

Answer 13

The disappearance of the colonists

Question 14

What was the relationship between the age of exploration & the Renaissance?

Answer 14

The Renaissance emphasis on humanism, discovery, & scientific innovation helps spark the age of exploration

Question 15

The Colombian exchange is?

Answer 15

Global transfer of plants, animals & disease as a result of Europeans landing in the Americas

Question 16

Early peoples in the Americas became experts in grown plants that became the primary food crops, especially with Native American plant?

Answer 16

Maize/corn

Question 17

Elaborate earthen burial mounds, sometimes topped with roofs temples, are a distinctive characteristic of early cultures in the region of the Americas?

Answer 17

The Mississippi & Ohio River valley

Question 18

Which nation saw the conversion of native people to Roman Catholicism as motivation to explore and colonize the Americas

Answer 18

Spain

Question 19

What best explains the impact of the encomienda system used by the Spanish in their American Empire?

Answer 19

It meant the Native Americans were effectively enslaved as forced laborers for wealthy Spaniards

Question 20

what term is used collectively for the native people who lived in the eastern and southern, eastern part of the present day United states?

Answer 20

Eastern woodland people