Unit 1

Question 1

What stimulated the wealth in Europe needed to develop banking and trade?

Answer 1

Europe took over Asian spice trade

Question 2

Name 3 crucial inventions of the period?

Answer 2

Gun Powder: revolutionlized warfare, powerful military advantage
Compass: advances in ship design, enable voyages, encouraged european dominance
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Question 3

Why did Europeans look for new ways to reach Asia?

Answer 3

Ottoman Turks took over Istanbul, the frointer between Europe and Asia. Christian Europe traders prohitbited.

Question 4

What allowed European mariners to explore the west coast of Africa?

Answer 4

Improvments in shipbuilding, and navigation.

Question 5

Columbus conquest

Answer 5

Approached multiple rulers to reach India from the west

• convinced spanish monarchs Ferdinand, Isabella
• set out with 3 ships
• october reached bahamas ( thought china)
• enslaved Native Americans
• spain withdrew its support
• Vespucci realized it was the new world

Question 6

Who is Amerigo Vespucci?

Answer 6

Italian explorer

Question 7

What was the significance of the Treaty of Tordesillas?

Answer 7

Columbus voyage led to conflict between spain and portugal. Alexander VI limited competition. The Treaty drew a line between the two. Spain recieved most america while portugal recieved brazil, africa, the east.

Question 8

What was a conquistador?

Answer 8

A succcession of private spanish adventurers and soilders occiupeid island of caribeean.

Question 9

What were the main goals of spanish in conquering North America?

Answer 9

To find metal and gold

Question 10

What riches did England and France discover in the new world?

Answer 10

Fish and Furs

Question 11

Discuss the settlement of New France.

Answer 11

France began exploring in 1520s, and Jacques Cartier explored the St Lawrence in 1534/35 claiming the northern part of the cointinent. Attempts to create colony failed for half a century. In 1603 there was establishment of Port Royal. Samuel de Champion established Quebec.

Question 12

When did Columbus land

Answer 12

October 12th, 1492

Question 13

How did Europeans justify taking Native land?

Answer 13

They haven’t been there that long

Question 14

How did people get from Siberia to Alaska?

Answer 14

Land Bridge

Question 15

What was the Clovis theory?

Answer 15

Spearheads guarennte humans have been here since mammthos.

Question 16

What was the coastal migration theory?

Answer 16

easier to travel by water

Question 17

Before 1499 How could Europeans reach India?

Answer 17

Travelling east through the red sea/ Arabia

Question 18

Animals from Europe to America

Answer 18

cows,dogs,horses,goats,bee,chicken,pig,rates

Question 19

Animals from America to Europe

Answer 19

guiena pig, turkey, llama, squirell, alpaca, duck

Question 20

Plants from Europe to America

Answer 20

barley, coffee,sugar,peas,citrus fruits, grass

Question 21

Plants from America to Europe

Answer 21

corn,potato,cacao,peanut,tabbaco,sweet potato

Question 22

Diseases from Europe to America

Answer 22

chicken pocks, plague, small pox, typhus, whooping cough, influenza, mups, measles

Question 23

Why people migrated to america?

Answer 23

Religous freedom, econmic opportunity, by force

Question 24

New England Colonies

Answer 24

New Hampshere, Maine, Massechuettes, Connecticut, Rhode Island

Question 25

Middle Colonies

Answer 25

New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware

Question 26

Southern Colonies

Answer 26

Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina

Question 27

What are the 3 most historical towns in USA

Answer 27

Jamestown, Williamsberg, Yorktown connected by Parkway

Question 28

Who was Virgina named after?

Answer 28

Queen Elizabeth 1

Question 29

What was the first permanet English settlement in America?

Answer 29

Jamestown, named after King James

Question 30

Whose statues in Jamestwon?

Answer 30

John Smith, Pocahauntes

Question 31

When did English first land?

Answer 31

Jamestown 1607

Question 32

Hardships Jamestown faced.

Answer 32

Fevers, mosiquitos, fires, starving, war

Question 33

What role did tobacco play?

Answer 33

Ladder to wealth, created economy

Question 34

What was the role of Williamsberg?

Answer 34

Becomes the capital, site of education that was center of community.

Question 35

Name the state capitals of New York, Flordia, Alaska, Hawaii, Pennsylvania

Answer 35

``` NY: Albany Al: Juneau Ha: Honolulu Fl: Tallahasse Pn: Harrisberg ```

Question 36

Colonial Economy: Southern Colony

Answer 36

manufacturing: iron farm: grain,flour,livetsock,tobacco,rice,indigo forestry: lumber, naval stores collecting/gathering: fish furs

Question 37

Colonial Economy: Middle and New England

Answer 37

manufcaturing: shipbuilding, iron, rum forestry: lumber, masts farm: grain, flour, livestock collecting/gathering: fish, whales, furs

Question 38

List the importance of family

Answer 38

communication, human interaction, support, skills, values

Question 39

Typical family home in colonial america

Answer 39

cooking, eating, homecrafts, four walls and a roof, one or two rooms, roofs made of thatch

Question 40

How did colonists stay warm?

Answer 40

fireplace, warming pads, pots filled with coal

Question 41

What did settlers eat and drink?

Answer 41

corn, spoonbread, johnny cake, porridge, chesnuts, deer, goose, beer ale

Question 42

Meal time habits and rules

Answer 42

time varied on schedule, large meals in late afternoon, snack in evening, silence, men wore hats, children would stand, share one plate, ate food with fingers

Question 43

What was average life expentecy?

Answer 43

30-40 years

Question 44

What was the bussiest time for woman?

Answer 44

Autumn, ever hand was needed to prepare for winter

Question 45

Bundling

Answer 45

A way for people to spend alone time together by covering in the sheets and whispering

Question 46

How large was the average family?

Answer 46

7-8 kids, children often did not survive

Question 47

Life of a child

Answer 47

It was short, and less care free. Playfulness were viewed as sinful traits. Children would memorise religous books. Beatings were quite common. Chores.

Question 48

Education options

Answer 48

Private school, grammar schools, dame schools

Question 49

Why was education important in massachusetts?

Answer 49

Founders were puritans and belived learning was important to be able to read the bible

Question 50

Life of teahcers

Answer 50

Sat behind raised desk, and spent nights drawing out lines for students to be copied.

Question 51

Frowned upon activties

Answer 51

Fun and play, religous celebrations

Question 52

What were some past times of upper class?

Answer 52

dancing, horse racing

Question 53

Past times of lower class?

Answer 53

Less formal horse racing, cock fighting, hunting fishing

Question 54

Local fair activties.

Answer 54

Buy and sell, contest, puppet shows, fortune tellers

Question 55

Who was Bartolome de Las Casas?

Answer 55

A christian man ( priest) who wrote about the unlawful treatment of first nations, believed one should convert them to the word of god instead of brutality. He describe first nations as peaceful and calm people.