Chapter 1 : Mapping Global Frontiers Quiz #1 Flashcards
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
The Americas
What luxury item from the Far East lured European traders to its shores for centuries ?
Spices
What happened to people in smaller farming and herding societies of western and central Africa when they were conquered by expanding kingdoms ?
members were dolf as salves within Africa for profit
For whom was the territory of Virginia named ?
Queen Elizabeth
Which European explorer introduced coal and spices to Europe after travelign to China in the 1270s ?
Marco Polo
How did Columbus’s crew and the native inhabitants of the Americans communiticate with one another ?
although they didn’t speak the same language, they were able to communicate using visual cues and gestures
Who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, demonstrating the possibility of traveling from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean ?
Bartolomeu Dias
Why did the first American settlers cross the Bering Strait into the North American continent ?
they were following herds of ixen and rhinoceroses
What did Columbus hope to achieve by taking captured Indians back to Spain ?
He wanted to teach them Spanish
Why did the diet of the North Americas change about 10,000 years ago ?
Mammoths and other large game dissappeared from their habitat, causing North Americans to rely on smaller game, fish, and plant foods to survive
When he set out to sail across the Atlantic on his “enterprise of the Indies,” what was Columbus’s chief occupation ?
Navigator
What materials did the Mayans use to protect themselves from Spanish invaders in the 1500s ?
Cotton armor and wooden arrows
In what economic sector did many of sixteenth-century Spain’s poor find employment ?
Army
What forces brought about the decline of the Mayan Civilization ?
Drought
How many people lived in North America when European explorers landed there in the sixteenth century ?
over 6 million
Where was Beringia, the land bridge that enabled the settlement of the Americas between 16,000 and 14,000 B.C.E ?
between Siberia and Alaska
Why were some church officals against the Spanish pillaging and plundering of the americas ?
Native Americans were not converting to Catholicism
What development marked the expansion of the slave trade from west africa ?
the construction of Elmina Castle
What region had the most extensice network of slave-trading centers in the medieval period ?
Middle East
Who authorized Cortes to attack Native Americans and claim their land ?
He decided to do it on his own
What region of Africa was deeply influenced by Islam and characterized by significant urbanization and an extensive network of tading centers ?
North Africa
What was the key to Incan survival in the Andes Mountains along the Pacific coast ?
Cultivation of valleys
Between 1346 and 1350 the Black Death ravaged Europe, killing about how many people ?
36 million people (50 percent of population)
Which Spanish explorer achieved a reputation for brutality and gained his wealth by trading in Inian slaves and looting native treasures ?
Hernando de Soto
