Chapter 1 : Mapping Global Frontiers Quiz #1

Question 1

In their 1507 map and globe entitled Universalis Cosmographia, Martin Waldseemüller and Mathias Ringmann had a body of land between the African and Asian continents estimating the geography of what we know know to be

Answer 1

The Americas

Question 2

What luxury item from the Far East lured European traders to its shores for centuries ?

Answer 2

Spices

Question 3

What happened to people in smaller farming and herding societies of western and central Africa when they were conquered by expanding kingdoms ?

Answer 3

members were dolf as salves within Africa for profit

Question 4

For whom was the territory of Virginia named ?

Answer 4

Queen Elizabeth

Question 5

Which European explorer introduced coal and spices to Europe after travelign to China in the 1270s ?

Answer 5

Marco Polo

Question 6

How did Columbus’s crew and the native inhabitants of the Americans communiticate with one another ?

Answer 6

although they didn’t speak the same language, they were able to communicate using visual cues and gestures

Question 7

Who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, demonstrating the possibility of traveling from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean ?

Answer 7

Bartolomeu Dias

Question 8

Why did the first American settlers cross the Bering Strait into the North American continent ?

Answer 8

they were following herds of ixen and rhinoceroses

Question 9

What did Columbus hope to achieve by taking captured Indians back to Spain ?

Answer 9

He wanted to teach them Spanish

Question 10

Why did the diet of the North Americas change about 10,000 years ago ?

Answer 10

Mammoths and other large game dissappeared from their habitat, causing North Americans to rely on smaller game, fish, and plant foods to survive

Question 11

When he set out to sail across the Atlantic on his “enterprise of the Indies,” what was Columbus’s chief occupation ?

Answer 11

Navigator

Question 12

What materials did the Mayans use to protect themselves from Spanish invaders in the 1500s ?

Answer 12

Cotton armor and wooden arrows

Question 13

In what economic sector did many of sixteenth-century Spain’s poor find employment ?

Answer 13

Army

Question 14

What forces brought about the decline of the Mayan Civilization ?

Answer 14

Drought

Question 15

How many people lived in North America when European explorers landed there in the sixteenth century ?

Answer 15

over 6 million

Question 16

Where was Beringia, the land bridge that enabled the settlement of the Americas between 16,000 and 14,000 B.C.E ?

Answer 16

between Siberia and Alaska

Question 17

Why were some church officals against the Spanish pillaging and plundering of the americas ?

Answer 17

Native Americans were not converting to Catholicism

Question 18

What development marked the expansion of the slave trade from west africa ?

Answer 18

the construction of Elmina Castle

Question 19

What region had the most extensice network of slave-trading centers in the medieval period ?

Answer 19

Middle East

Question 20

Who authorized Cortes to attack Native Americans and claim their land ?

Answer 20

He decided to do it on his own

Question 21

What region of Africa was deeply influenced by Islam and characterized by significant urbanization and an extensive network of tading centers ?

Answer 21

North Africa

Question 22

What was the key to Incan survival in the Andes Mountains along the Pacific coast ?

Answer 22

Cultivation of valleys

Question 23

Between 1346 and 1350 the Black Death ravaged Europe, killing about how many people ?

Answer 23

36 million people (50 percent of population)

Question 24

Which Spanish explorer achieved a reputation for brutality and gained his wealth by trading in Inian slaves and looting native treasures ?

Answer 24

Hernando de Soto

Question 25

From what European country did the ill-fated settles of Roanoke come ?

Answer 25

England

Question 26

What European power claimed rights to the Philippine islands ?

Answer 26

Spain

Question 27

Starting in the sixteenth century, Europeans fromed an image of Africa based on captives from which region of the continent ?

Answer 27

west

Question 28

In what part of the Americas did the Arawak and Taino tribes live when the Spanish explorers arrived in the sixteenth century ?

Answer 28

The Caribbean

Question 29

The first europeans to discover lands in the western atlantic were

Answer 29

norsemen

Question 30

What is the name historians have given to the transfer of flora, fauna, and disease from Europe to the Americas that resulted in the deaths of millions of native people ?

Answer 30

Columbian Exchange

Question 31

How did the Aztecs’, Mayans’, and the Incas’ commerical practices influence the development of their tansportation systems ?

Answer 31

b/c they carried out most o their commerce overland or along rivers and coastlines, they did not need to build seagoing boats

Question 32

Weak monarchies and religious and political strife in both France and England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to which country’s domination of the Americas?

Answer 32

Spain

Question 33

Who first migrated to and populated the Americas over 13,000 years ago ?

Answer 33

Asians

Question 34

What crop enabled the expansion of the Hopewell people, an advanced Native American culture that developed around the Mississippi River ?

Answer 34

Corn

Question 35

How did the Universalis Cosmographia, by Martin Waldseemüller and Mathias Ringmann, differ from previous maps of the world?

Answer 35

it was the first european map to depict the Americas and Asia as separate

Question 36

What civilization developed the ability to print with wood blocks, leading to the widespread use of woodcut pictures throughout Europe in the fifteenth century?

Answer 36

Chinese

Question 37

Mayan astronomers were known for the development of a system for

Answer 37

predicting eclipses of the sun and moon

Question 38

How did Tlaxcalan artists portray Malintzin ?

Answer 38

as a powerful diplomat

Question 39

In the sixteenth century, which society was organized along matrilineal lines ?

Answer 39

African

Question 40

What native American people built the capitcal Tenochtitlan on the site of present-day Mexico City ?

Answer 40

Aztecs

Question 41

What share of their loot did Spanish explorers have to turn over to the crown for taxes?

Answer 41

About 20 percent of the take

Question 42

What conditions enabled the cultural Renaissance to emerge in the wake of the Black Death?

Answer 42

An improved climate, a higher standard of living for the surviving populations, and rising birthrates

Question 43

When Columbus’s ship landed on the island he named San Salvador, how did the local “Indians” treat his crew?

Answer 43

The islanders warmly welcomed the new visitors.

Question 44

Why did the Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés and his Spanish counterparts decide to go to war with the Aztecs and their leader, Montezuma?

Answer 44

The Aztecs had gold and other riches.

Question 45

Why did the French first abandon the settlement of Quebec?

Answer 45

harsh weather

Question 46

Why did Christopher Columbus’s crew nearly mutiny on his voyage from Spain?

Answer 46

They did not see land after more than four weeks at sea.

Question 47

Who financed England’s earliest ventures to North America?

Answer 47

Noblemen

Question 48

Why did the Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés and his Spanish counterparts decide to go to war with the Aztecs and their leader, Montezuma?

Answer 48

The Aztecs had gold and other riches.

Question 49

As slaves to Mexica merchants, what kind of work did many young Indian women spend their time doing?

Answer 49

Agricultural work