Elizabeth Section 6

Question 1

Who were the Algonquian people?

Answer 1

One of the largest groups of American native people

Question 2

Who ruled the Algonquian village known as Secotan?

Answer 2

Wingina

Question 3

How did the Algonquian make a living?

Answer 3

. Women and girls grew crops such as sweetcorn, beans and squash
. Boys and men hunted and fished
. Villages traded with other villages for goods such as copper and pearls

Question 4

What did the Algonquian tribe believe in?

Answer 4

Rather than believing in individual gods, they believed in a Great Spirit that inhabited the entire universe

Question 5

What was the most powerful and wealthy empire in India?

Answer 5

The Mughal empire

Question 6

Who ruled the Mughal empire?

Answer 6

The Mughal emperor in the 16th century was Akbar the great

Question 7

How many people were in the Mughal empire?

Answer 7

over 100 million people

Question 8

What did the Mughals believe?

Answer 8

Akbar was Muslim but most people in his empire were Hindus and Sikhs, Akbar tolerated other religions and encouraged discussions between them

Question 9

How did the Mughals make a living?

Answer 9

. Most were peasant farmers as most of India had fertile land
. Many peasants lived in poverty as they had to give a third of their crops to the emperor as taxes each year
. Traded with Portuguese merchants who sailed from Europe

Question 10

What was the first British colony in North America?

Answer 10

Roanoke

Question 11

What motivated Walter Raleigh to establish Roanoke?

Answer 11

. Wealth - Raleigh hoped to find silver and gold in North America
. Elizabeth - Raleigh hoped that his new colony would earn him patronage from the Queen
. Spain - Raleigh wanted to challenge the power of Catholic Spain
. Royal Support - Elizabeth gave Raleigh permission to take land in North America

Question 12

When did English settlers first arrive on Roanoke island?

Answer 12

1587

Question 13

How many English settlers arrived in 1587?

Answer 13

117

Question 14

What happened at Roanoke?

Answer 14

. At first relations between English and Roanoke were good
. Soon, Wingina decided to attack settlers
. Other Algonquian collaborated with the English settlers.

Question 15

Some settlers returned to Britain for supplies but what happened when they returned in 1590?

Answer 15

The colony was abandoned

Question 16

What did the English adventurers achieve?

Answer 16

. The adventurers brought back products such as potatoes and tobacco
. The English gained valuable knowledge allowing future colonies to succeed

Question 17

What motivated journeys to the east?

Answer 17

. Wealth
. Spain
. Royal Support

Question 18

What happened when Ralph Fitch arrived in India?

Answer 18

. In the 1580’s Ralph Fitch travelled to India by land and saw the wealth of the Mughal empire
. In 1599, a Dutch fleet returned to the Netherlands with hundreds of tons of spices
. In 1600, a group of merchants set up a company to trade with India (East India company)
. In 1602, the East India company successfully set up a factory - or trading post - on the island of Java and brought back spices and other goods

Question 19

What did the English adventurers achieve?

Answer 19

. Trade brought new goods, such as spices and cotton
. The English gained valuable knowledge of India
. The East India Company became the most powerful company in the world by 1800, controlling half of all trade in the world, eventually ruling most of India