Chapter 1 The New World Encounters

Question 1

What is Beringia?

Answer 1

With in part, to enviromental conditions there was a landmass that connected Russia to America that the Native Americans came over from.

Question 2

How were the native Americans different from the other stone age people.

Answer 2

In that they did not experience the same diseases, although one theory suggests that they did not physically com into contact with these diseases.

Question 3

What is the Agricultural Revolution?

Answer 3

The shift of basic crops that were used food in order to survive.

Question 4

How did the human population boom in the Stone age?

Answer 4

Thanks to mammal providing the meat human population boomed.

Question 5

What in the mississippi valley were there?

Answer 5

Cultures that have cities and had a whole way of life.

Question 6

How did the cultures of each tribe differ?

Answer 6

Though the ecologies of the land , each came to its own distinct culture.

Question 7

How many people lived in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitan?

Answer 7

250 thousand people

Question 8

Why did the Aztec make human sacrifices?

Answer 8

They believed that blood had power that would bring them good crop, which was part of the culture.

Question 9

What were the Eastern Woodland Cultures?

Answer 9

Less than a million settled on the East Coast that farmed and hunted to sustain the small villages.

Question 10

Were there common tongues between the various Indian tribes?

Answer 10

No there were no common tongues between the various tribes. This had little effect on Indian politics.

Question 11

What did the Eastern Woodland communities have?

Answer 11

They had organized diplomacy, trade, and war around reciprocal relationship that impressed the Europeans as being egalitarian.

Question 12

What did the Indians most desired most?

Answer 12

Peaceful trade.

Question 13

When trading when did Indians want?

Answer 13

They wanted gifts and demanded them in a certain time and place. During those interactions Indians made opinions about the White settlers.

Question 14

What did the Europeans do often with the Indians?

Answer 14

The Europeans often tried to bring the Indians into the way of the European life.

Question 15

What did the Native American women despise?

Answer 15

That in the European society there were monogamous marriages.

Question 16

With trade, what were the effects of it?

Answer 16

The effects were the decrease of population in the animals being in debt from Europeans and yet the Europeans always wanted more land.

Question 17

What was the one factor that ultimately brought the Native Americans to their knees?

Answer 17

Disease, with thanks to the exposure of such viruses such as smallpox to the Natives.

Question 18

What is the Colombian Exchange?

Answer 18

The decimation of Native American peoples having an impact on the ecological transformation of the land in the Americas.

Question 19

What did some historical data claim about the rate of diseases that the Indians?

Answer 19

That within the first one hundred years, around 90 to 95 percent of Indians died thanks to disease.

Question 20

Who were the first European people to explore the West African coast? Who did the Portuguese come into contact with?

Answer 20

The Portuguese and came intro contact with the Muslims.

Question 21

With the Muslims and the Portuguese coming into contact with each other were they stateless socialites?

Answer 21

No, some were states that were vulnerable to external attack and internal rebellion while others were however.

Question 22

Why did the Portuguese sail to Africa?

Answer 22

They were looking for gold and slaves.

Question 23

Why did Europeans live the African conditions?

Answer 23

Because that Africans had formidable armies and the diseases there were not in the Europeans favor.

Question 24

Between the years 1650 and 1831 what happened to African slaves in trade?

Answer 24

More Africans then Europeans were coming to the Americas.

Question 25

What were people eyeing for generations in Europe?

Answer 25

To expand the Western ideas to the whole world.

Question 26

What were the condition in the 15th century in Europe?

Answer 26

There was the Resnianse that was a more expansive look at the arts and sciences. Government was more centralized and Europe overall was more prosperous.

Question 27

Who was the World power in the 1500’s

Answer 27

The Spanish though the conquest of the Americas.

Question 28

Who are the conquistadors?Who did they conquer?

Answer 28

These are men eager for personal glory and material gain uncompromising in matters of religion an unswerving in their loyalty to the crown. They conquered the indigenous peoples of the canary islands.

Question 29

What happened in 1484?

Answer 29

Columbus presented the King of Portugal to the idea of reaching China.

Question 30

What is a common occurrence that people today believed in that time was true?

Answer 30

Many people today thought that Europeans of the time thought the world is round, that is false most educated people at the time thought that the world is round.

Question 31

What is the Treaty of tordesillas?

Answer 31

Document that divided the entire world along a line located 270 league West of the Amazons.

Question 32

What were some new settlements in the Spanish name?

Answer 32

Small settlements such as Cuba, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.

Question 33

Of the conquerors who was perhaps the most famous of them all?

Answer 33

Herman Cortes

Question 34

In the war between the Aztecs and Cortes who had the obious advantage?

Answer 34

Cortes, had metal and things of that nature.

Question 35

What is the encomienda system?

Answer 35

Spanish system that people who lived in the settlements the encomenderos(people like Cortes) with labor tribute in exchange for legal protection and religious guidance.

Question 36

Virgin of Guadalupe

Answer 36

A figure that was the Virgin and being described of having dark-skin and had Indian ancestory.

Question 37

How many Spanairds migrated to the New World?

Answer 37

Around 250k

Question 38

Why did the French wanted to come to the New World?

Answer 38

They were in search of wealth and things of that nature

Question 39

When was New Orleans founded

Answer 39

In 1673

Question 40

When did the English come to America?

Answer 40

No one really knows in mystery. Thought the first English voyage recorded was in 1497 by the name f John Cabot

Question 41

What is the Protestant reformation?

Answer 41

16th century religious movement to reform and challenge the spiritual authority of the Roman Catholic church associated with figures such as Martin Luther and John Calvin.

Question 42

What was the catalyst for England leaving the Catholic Church?

Answer 42

That the king at the time want to get rid of his wife Catherine.

Question 43

What was the famous book that John Calvin published?

Answer 43

Institutes of the Christian faith, contained a powerful statement of the new faith.

Question 44

What was the first English colony but was not successful?

Answer 44

Roanoke