Part 1: New World Beginnings

Question 1

Matrilinear

Answer 1

The form of society in which family line, power, and wealth are passed primarily through the female side. Many North American native peoples, including the Iroquois, developed matrilinear cultures

Question 2

Middlemen

Answer 2

In trading systems, those dealers who operate between the original buyers and the retail merchants who sell to consumers

Question 3

Caravel

Answer 3

Developed by Portuguese. A small vessel with a high deck and 3 triangular sails. These ships could sail more closely to the wind.

Question 4

Encomienda system

Answer 4

Allowed the government to give Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to try to Christianize them

Question 5

Mestizo

Answer 5

Person of mixed Native American and European ancestry

Question 6

Crusades

Answer 6

Europeans tried to gain control of the Holy Land from Muslims. Though they failed, they acquired a taste for exotic goods of Asia.

Question 7

Marco Polo

Answer 7

Italian adventurer who told tales of his journey through China. Indirect discoverer of the New World.

Question 8

Da Gama

Answer 8

Portuguese explorer who reached India

Question 9

Colombus

Answer 9

Italian sailor seeking new water route to the Indies, and discovered the Americas

Question 10

Colombian exchange

Answer 10

New World exports: Gold silver, corn, potatoes, pineapples, tobacco, syphilis
Old World exports: Wheat, sugar, rice, coffee, horses, cows, pigs, smallpox, measles, plague
Africa exports: Slaves

Question 11

Treaty of Tordasillas

Answer 11

Spain and Portugal divided the New World. Spain received most of the territory, but Portugal also received land in Africa and Asia, and Brazil

Question 12

Pizarro

Answer 12

Crushed Incas in 1532 and stole a lot of treasure

Question 13

Cortes

Answer 13

Sailed to Mexico and befriended Aztec chieftain Moctezuma. Eventually attacked and captured Tenochtitlan.

Question 14

Cabot

Answer 14

Englishman who explored the northeastern coast of North America.

Question 15

LaSalle

Answer 15

Frenchman who led an expedition down the Mississippi River

Question 16

Father Serra

Answer 16

Founded Spanish missions in California to Christianize natives. Did not adopt the religion, and lost their cultures, and died from diseases.

Question 17

Black Legend

Answer 17

False concept that conquerors only tortured natives, stole from them, and infected them. Actually, Spaniards built, fused, and advanced Native culture.

Question 18

English relationship with natives

Answer 18

Wanted to stay segregated (King Phillip’s War, Pequot War, etc.)

Question 19

Spanish relationship with natives

Answer 19

Tried to convert to Catholicism- caused rebellions

Manipulated and oppressed

Question 20

French relationship with natives

Answer 20

Worked with them in the fur trade, and fought with them in the fur trade

Question 21

Protestant Reformation

Answer 21

Christians in Northern European countries revolted against the Catholic Pope. Sparked religious wars between Protestants and Catholics that made each want to spread their religion to other continents.