Week 7

Question 1

Colonialism

Answer 1

Process by which some nations conquered, settled and exploited other areas of the world

Question 2

Lupita Cultural Complex

Answer 2

crossing of open ocean in Oceania leading to the settlement in Pacific islands (possible because of technological advancement, boats, stick/ shell charts and stars)

Question 3

Clovis Points

Answer 3

spread of clovis culture (Arrow heads) seen everywhere along NA > trade networks spreading culture

Question 4

Jacques Cartier/ Samuel de Champlain

Answer 4

Early trader in Canada, Mi’kmaq were trading much earlier than them

Question 5

Donnacona and Domagaya

Answer 5

St. Lawrence Iroquois who met Jac and Sam.

Question 6

Early evolution of Indigenous peoples (2 groups)

Answer 6

• Paleo-Eskimo to Dorset
• Thule to Inuit

Question 7

Umiaq

Answer 7

Big multi-man rowed boat, used by Dorset/ Inuit Precursors to get to inhabitable land

Question 8

Christopher Columbus

Answer 8

Gave Europe first view of America societies like Aztecs and Incas

Question 9

Effects of sedentary settlements

Answer 9

• used surpluses
• created hierarchies and job specializations
• was provided with time and opportunity

Question 10

Why groups did not become Colonizers

Answer 10

• lacked means, desire or both
• First Nation in Pacific South West
  -Aztecs, Mayans, Incas did locally but not overseas

Question 11

What was the main cause of colonialism

Answer 11

surplus societies (but did not mean lack of food)
- requires a means and ideals to colonize

Question 12

Function of Myths

Answer 12

scare and warn others about explorations: kept them from expansion
- “there be monsters” was the saying talking about outside areas

Question 13

Pliny the Elder

Answer 13

wrote about mutant races in Africa (1st Century)

Question 14

Age of Discovery

Answer 14

Great movement of exploration. Trying to find and claim more land before other empires did (15th-17thC),

Question 15

Silk Road

Answer 15

Trade route which connected the East Asia and West Asia (Acted as a prelude to Age of Discovery), Named Silk Road because of the amount of silk exported

Question 16

Marco Polo

Answer 16

Travelled along the silk road and documented it (let Europe know about foreign countries), > one of the first documented experience

Question 17

Motivation for exploration

Answer 17

Gold, Glory, God

Question 18

Other

Answer 18

Different or less than (allowing the assertion of authority)

Question 19

Literature of Exploration

Answer 19

Books, Diaries, letters, travelogues, ship logs, reports, accounts

Question 20

Roanoke

Answer 20

-First colonial settlement: Failed
- some were absorbed into Indigenous groups

Question 21

James Town

Answer 21

• First settlement to succeed

Question 22

John Smith

Answer 22

Wrote Pocahontas, a story about the survival of the colony of Jamestown

Question 23

Erdapfel

Answer 23

First globe, called the Nurnberg Terrestrial Globe

Question 24

Abraham Ortelius

Answer 24

Made the first Altus 1570

Question 25

Atlantic Slave Trade

Answer 25

1500-1800: Sold by other Africans, brought to America,

Question 26

Noble Savage

Answer 26

Pure, Uncorrupted native >represents innate goodness of humanity

Question 27

Cabinets of Curiosities

Answer 27

-Interest in foreign objects, cabinet of things, showings of things and objects to be shown off

Question 28

Pitt Rivers Museum

Answer 28

Museum of Pitt Rivers belongings which he collected

Question 29

Great London Exhibit

Answer 29

Known as crystal palace, used to show differences between ethnic groups

Question 30

Indigenous captives on exhibit at fairs and expositions

Answer 30

Human zoos, caged like animals/ circuses