Chapter 1

Question 1

Mississippi Valley

Answer 1

• the largest drainage area in north america.

- greater urban density and more complex and social organization that agriculture encouraged.

Question 2

Eastern Woodlands

Answer 2

• moderate climate regions

- women did agriculture while the men hunted and fished for their families.

Question 3

The Great Lakes

Answer 3

• porous region where social and political forms happened in different ways.
• many rivers and lakes connected which made it very mobile for the tribes that lived there.

Question 4

The Great Plains and Rockies1

Answer 4

• vast arid steppe region and eastern slope in north america.
• good for hunting, fishing, gathering

Question 5

The Arid Southwest

Answer 5

• in north america one of the best agricultural areas

- irrigation system to manage scarce water helping them build adobe and rock villages.

Question 6

The Pacific Coast

Answer 6

• diverse area with many different groups of people in small territories.
• so diverse it helped keep societies independent.

Question 7

European View on Slavery

Answer 7

• They didn’t care for slaves as much as they did about gold and money, so they took slaves to do the dirty work and exchanged them for gold.

Question 8

Characteristics of Spanish exploration (Cortez)

Answer 8

Cortez gathered everyone under Aztec rule, challenged Tenochtitlans ruler, took over the city, cut off the city’s food and water supply, and then ruined the Aztec Empire by 1521.

Question 9

Characteristics of Spanish exploration (Pizarro)

Answer 9

Pizarro killed the last Incan Emperor, Incas resisted him but by 1535 Pizarro won and Spain became the wealthiest and most populated in the Western Hemisphere.

Question 10

Brazil, sugar, plantations

Answer 10

the sugar plantations in Brazil (west indies) were set up for AFRICAN Slaves to work there.

Question 11

maize

Answer 11

nutritious plant. led to development of a large-scale northern Native American culture.