History Exam Study

Question 1

What are SECONDARY SOURCES?

Answer 1

Any source that was produced after an event has happened and has most likely been altered or changed.

Question 2

What does BC mean?

Answer 2

Before Christ

Question 3

What does BCE mean?

Answer 3

Before Common Era

Question 4

What does CE mean?

Answer 4

Common Era

Question 5

What does AD mean?

Answer 5

Anno Domini

Question 6

Name one year in the 6th Century

Answer 6

Between 501 and 600

Question 7

What is SEQUENCING?

Answer 7

Ordering events in chronological order

Question 8

Name three types of DATING METHODS

Answer 8

Radiocarbon Dating; Dendrochronology; Thermoluminescence Dating

Question 9

What percentage of Medieval Europe’s population were peasants?

Answer 9

90%

Question 10

Who was at the top of the hierarchical pyramid?

Answer 10

The King

Question 11

What class of people were on the bottom of the hierarchical pyramid?

Answer 11

Peasants and Slaves

Question 12

What was another word for a village?

Answer 12

A Manor

Question 13

Who controlled the Manor?

Answer 13

The Lord/King

Question 14

What type of houses did peasants live in?

Answer 14

Small, wooden or clay houses

Question 15

What type of houses did wealthy people live in?

Answer 15

Large, Stone houses or castles

Question 16

What was the Feudal System?

Answer 16

Where the lord was in charge of everything and peasants and other lower classes were kept safe in exchange for their service and work in the community.

Question 17

How many people lived in each village?

Answer 17

100-300

Question 18

What was the three-field system?

Answer 18

Where they would uses multiple crop areas to make farming a lot more effective. One crop would be empty and two would have crops.

Question 19

Why did they have some crops empty?

Answer 19

To recover the lands fertility.

Question 20

What food did peasants eat?

Answer 20

Bread, cheese, porridge and some vegetables.

Question 21

What food did the wealthy eat?

Answer 21

Lots of meat - deer, rabbits, doves, peacocks and a lot of bread

Question 22

Why did the wealthy not eat vegetables

Answer 22

Because they thought of them as lower class foods.

Question 23

What are PRIMARY SOURCES?

Answer 23

Original materials or data that haven’t been altered or changed.

Question 24

What was the reason for the Spanish colonisation?

Answer 24

Mainly to spread the religion of Christianity but to also gained wealth and fame by discovering new lands and or sea routes.

Question 25

Name three important characters of the Spanish conquest of the Americas.

Answer 25

Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortes and Fransisco Pizarro.

Question 26

What did Christopher Columbus achieve?

Answer 26

He found the new world and opened the way for exploration and conquest of the Americas.

Question 27

What did Hernan Cortes achieve?

Answer 27

He defeated the Inca Empire.

Question 28

What did Fransisco Pizarro achieve?

Answer 28

He founded Mexico and established a settlement in Vera Cruz. He marked the beginning of the conquest of the Aztec civilisation.

Question 29

What was the Aztec religion mainly focused on?

Answer 29

How the gods, humans and nature were interconnected.

Question 30

Who did the Aztecs worshipped? (Religion wise)

Answer 30

Huitzilopochtli

Question 31

What food did North America grow?

Answer 31

Fruit, ground plants and sunflower seeds

Question 32

What food did Central America grow?

Answer 32

Maize (corn), avocado and chilli.

Question 33

What foods did South America grow?

Answer 33

Gourds, squashes, manioc, potatoes and beans.