Quiz 1

Question 1

Primary source

Answer 1

Historical source from someone living during time period/event documenting that time period/event

Question 2

Secondary source

Answer 2

Source that analyzes and interprets primary source(s)

Question 3

Ferdinand and Isabella

Answer 3

Rulers of Spain in late 1400s-early 1500s, spearhead reconquista and inquisition, fund Columbus’ trip to Americas

Question 4

Reconquista

Answer 4

Reconquest- Ferdinand and Isabella take territory from Moors (Granada last to fall) and unite loose kingdoms into Spain

Question 5

Atlantic world

Answer 5

“New World”, Latin America

Question 6

Atlantic creoles

Answer 6

People with higher contact with Iberians

Question 7

Kingdom of Kongo

Answer 7

In west central Africa, dominated broad region w/many linguistically related Bantu groups, relied on agriculture and metallurgical sector

Question 8

Convivencia

Answer 8

Coexistence, in context of Christians living with Muslims and Jewish people

Question 9

Feitoria

Answer 9

Portuguese forts

Question 10

Transatlantic slave trade

Answer 10

Europeans enslaved African people and transferred them to americas to do labor

Question 11

Popul Vuh

Answer 11

Film/creation myth of the k’iche’ maya

Question 12

Maya

Answer 12

Indigenous group in Mesoamérica, sedentary, around Yucatán peninsula

Question 13

Mexica (Aztec)

Answer 13

Occupied central Mexico, centered in Tenochtitlán, empire

Question 14

Inca

Answer 14

Located in South America (Andes mountains), huge empire

Question 15

Taíno

Answer 15

Indigenous people in Caribbean

Question 16

Tupinamba

Answer 16

Indigenous group living on coast of Brazil

Question 17

Nuremberg chronicles

Answer 17

Documents history of man, maps inhabited world

Question 18

Aztec calendar stone

Answer 18

Calendar divided into several ages that describes history and future

Question 19

Quipu

Answer 19

Inca method of documenting information, ropes with knots

Question 20

Vertical archipelago

Answer 20

Refers to life in Andes mountains, different elevations treated as “islands”

Question 21

Mit’a labor

Answer 21

Labor tax levied by inca for specific state projects

Question 22

Treaty of tordesillas

Answer 22

1494- moved pope’s line 1000 leagues west, confirming Portugal’s right to territory in Africa and route to India

Question 23

Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala

Answer 23

Native Andean educated by missionaries that became interpreter for Spanish and Quechua speakers

Question 24

What were the most important characteristics of 15th century Iberian society?

Answer 24

Social, economic, legal inequalities
Conquest mentality
Catholic Church dominates
Concerned w/women’s sexual purity

Question 25

What roles did the Catholic Church play in 15th century Iberian society?

Answer 25

Influences crown Education Moral/ethical authority Religious authority

Question 26

What were the most important characteristics of 15th century west Africa and west central Africa?

Answer 26

Slave trade and wealth from it Military power Changing religious practices

Question 27

What types of interactions characterized relations between Iberians and west Africans in 15th century?

Answer 27

Business interactions Enslavement Diplomatic missions

Question 28

Which modern country in the Americas was the destination for the most enslaved Africans?

Answer 28

Brazil

Question 29

What texts did Europeans see as sources of authority for understanding the world outside their communities? How did that shape their perceptions?

Answer 29

Nuremberg chronicles Margarita These types of documents started with creation and went they human history, focus on Europeans with racist descriptions of other people, creates idea of the other as non human

Question 30

What sources of evidence do historians have for pre-contact history in America’s?

Answer 30

Tech like roads, stone artifacts, pottery, clothing

Question 31

What is material culture? Give example from class to illustrate how it can be used to understand power dynamics

Answer 31

Items we buy influence our shared rituals and identity (and vice versa) Tortillas- corn easy to grow but grinding it into tortillas (done by women) takes a long time and is hard labor, men don’t do it so women lose time but gives them power over food production

Question 32

What key regional differences do you see in new world peoples and cultures before 1492?

Answer 32

Andean societies have to deal with mountains while mesoamericana moreso deal with desert land and dry conditions These differences lead to differences in agricultural

Question 33

What K’iche’ Maya community are depicted in popol vuh?

Answer 33

Continuing legacy Learning from history Importance of family/community Importance of nature

Question 34

What were the most important characteristics of 15th century Mexica culture?

Answer 34

Complex organization and training of military Use of history to legitimize power Religion Warfare as economic/political tool

Question 35

In what ways was mesoamerican life shaped by local environment?

Answer 35

Determined what they could grow, determined labor division, informed building materials, determined if society was sedentary or semi sedentary

Question 36

In what ways was Incan life shaped by local environment?

Answer 36

Mountains created system where people brought food up, used llama and alpaca for clothes to stay warm, terrace farming

Question 37

How did regional geography shape pattens of life in pre-1492 Brazil and Caribbean?

Answer 37

Led to combined hunting and farming, cassava big source of calories,

Question 38

What characterized indigenous Caribbean peoples in 1500? What kinds of evidence are available to better understand their histories?

Answer 38

Looser political organization, several diff linguistic groups,, defense based on ranged attacks and ambush Material remains like pottery remain, animal bones, ornaments and beads, cooking vessels

Question 39

What forms of tech did in a use in consolidating their empire?

Answer 39

Roads, mail system/couriers, quipus

Question 40

What tech did inca and Maya societies use to record their histories?

Answer 40

Quipus, maize, pebbles, written documents

Question 41

What is a quipu and what insights do modern historians think they give into Inca history?

Answer 41

Knotted cords Give us insights into record keeping, economics, labor organization,