where the birds led.

Question 1

“_________ dropped anchor along the California coast in 1429”

Answer 1

“Admiral Zheng He”

Question 2

“The Mexica worshiped a god named ________”

Answer 2

“The Mexica worshiped a god named Huitzilopochtli.”

Question 3

Even as traders made their way along the _____, China launched a great fleet of trading ships that took seven voyages across the Indian Ocean, as far as _________ and the coast of ________.

Answer 3

Even as traders made their way along the Silk Road, China launched a great fleet of trading ships that took seven voyages across the Indian Ocean, as far as Madagascar and the coast of East Africa.

Question 4

Who was the minor officer who arrested Balboa?

Answer 4

Francisco Pizarro

Question 5

“_______ peoples from the north of Asia were attacking China, drawing the emperors’ attention elsewhere.”

Answer 5

Mongol peoples from the north of Asia were attacking China, drawing the emperors’ attention elsewhere.

Question 6

“After _____ the treasure fleet was destroyed and no more large ships built.”

Answer 6

After 1433 the treasure fleet was destroyed and no more large ships built.

Question 7

how many months did Cortés try to find some way to convince the Mexica to surrender without a fight?

Answer 7

“For eight months, Cortés tried to find some way to convince the Mexica to surrender without a fight”

Question 8

Which gigantic mammals in North America do archaeologists believe were killed off by the earliest humans?

Answer 8

Wooly mammoths and mastodons
Eight-foot lions
Giant sloths taller than giraffes

Question 9

what did the Mexica do to their other peoples for their god?

Answer 9

They sacrificed them atop sacred pyramids.
Priests cut open prisoners’ chests in order to offer beating hearts and save the sun.
They forced the peoples they conquered to send three or four thousand people a year.

Question 10

Who was the emperor of the Mexica during the visit of the conquistadors?

Answer 10

Moctezuma was the emperor of the Mexica during the visit of the conquistadors.

Question 11

During the 1400s who stood at the center of civilization?

Answer 11

During the 1400s China stood at the center of civilization

Question 12

what did china launch?

Answer 12

China launched a great fleet of trading ships that took seven voyages across the Indian Ocean, as far as Madagascar and the coast of East Africa.

Question 13

who attacked china?

Answer 13

the north of Asia were attacking China

Question 14

who followed the Columbus and what did they become?

Answer 14

The Spanish who followed became known by a different title: conquistadors, or conquerors.

Question 15

In what year did Balboa reach the pacific ocean?

Answer 15

“they reached the Pacific Ocean in 1513”

Question 16

Which conquistador marched with about six hundred followers toward the seven-thousand-foot-high plateau and the Valley of Mexico?

Answer 16

“In 1519, Hernán Cortés and about six hundred followers marched toward the seven-thousand-foot-high plateau and the Valley of Mexico.”

Question 17

Which of the following did King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella have arrested and sent home in chains?

Answer 17

“King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella had Columbus arrested and sent home in chains.”

Question 18

“Thousands upon thousands of Indians lived along the route and one of the nations, __________, fought Cortés bitterly. But then __________’s rulers decided to help rather than to oppose the Spanish.”

Answer 18

“Thousands upon thousands of Indians lived along the route and one of the nations, Tlaxcala, fought Cortés bitterly. But then Tlaxcala’s rulers decided to help rather than to oppose the Spanish.”

Question 19

“Admiral Zheng He dropped anchor along the __________ coast in 1429”

Answer 19

“Admiral Zheng He dropped anchor along the California coast in 1429”

Question 20

who did the Mexicans worship?

Answer 20

“The Mexica worshiped a god named Huitzilopochtli.”

Question 21

Which people told the explorers about a kingdom along the coast of “the other sea” where people drank from goblets of solid gold?

Answer 21

“Panquiaco angrily knocked over the scales and said, “If you are so hungry for gold that you leave your lands to cause strife in those of others, I will show you a province where you can quell this hunger.” There was a kingdom along the coast of “the other sea,” he reported, where people drank from goblets of solid gold.”

Question 22

Who first sailed across the Pacific and circle the globe by way of India and Africa?

Answer 22

“Ferdinand Magellan crossed the Pacific’s wide waters. His ships became the first to circle the globe, sailing home by way of India and Africa.”

Question 23

What was Cortes’s plan to conquer the capital city?

Answer 23

“making Moctezuma a hostage in his own city.”

Question 24

What would have happened If Columbus hadn’t reached America in 1492?

Answer 24

If Columbus hadn’t reached America in 1492, someone else from Europe would have.

Question 25

Natives in the Willamette River Valley made sticks into a line to trap which creatures?

Answer 25

“Indians mend a fish trap—a line of sticks pounded into the river bottom along a rapids. Salmon swimming upstream can make their way though only a few openings, and there they are caught in woven baskets.”

Question 26

List the features of Tenochtitlán.

Answer 26

Marketplaces with goods from thousands of miles away
Museum gardens filled with exotic plants
Aqueducts bringing drinking water to the city from the mountains miles away

Question 27

Which two Americans invented the idea for blue jeans?

Answer 27

Levi Strauss and David Jacobs, thought of the idea in 1873.”

Question 28

The motto of North America in 1492 was the opposite of E pluribus unum: __________

Answer 28

The motto of North America in 1492 was the opposite of E pluribus unum. Out of many people, one.

Question 29

Which conquistador marched with about six hundred followers toward the seven-thousand-foot-high plateau and the Valley of Mexico?

Answer 29

“In 1519, Hernán Cortés and about six hundred followers marched toward the seven-thousand-foot-high plateau and the Valley of Mexico.”

Question 30

what did Christopher columbus and his colonists expect to find in Hisponiola.

Answer 30

Christopher columbus and his colonists expected to find Gold and spices in Hisponiola.