Chapter 1 & 2

Question 1

What is the name of the largest known city center of the pre-contact eastern woodlands in what is now the United States?

Answer 1

Cahokia

Question 2

Which response best describes life in pre-contact Mesoamerica?

Answer 2

A complex and thriving society with great wealth and advanced culture

Question 3

Which answer best escribes the general conditions of Native America on the eve of contact with Europeans?

Answer 3

An area struggling to recover from a period of tremendous turmoil and upheaval caused by a variety of little understood factors

Question 4

Match the regions below with description of the various peoples living there during the pre-contact period. Use the map on page 13 of your textbook to help.

Answer 4

Southwest - place of unique and advanced irrigation systems

Eastern Woodlands - Known for the large mound-building projects found throughout the region, largely depended upon the abundance of wildlife, including deer, birds, and bears in addition to fishing, gathering and selective agricultural practices.

Great Basin - largely nomadic people, following the sparse food sources available each season

Northwest Coast - A rich natural environment that the native peoples used to support a large, stratified population and complex cultural lives.

Question 5

Most Native Americans engaged in the extensive domestication of animals to supplement diets.

Answer 5

False (While agriculture was widespread in Americans, unlike their their Eurasian and African counterparts, the first peoples of the Americas did not domestic large animals and instead obtained their meat from hunting and fishing.
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Question 6

Which of the following statements about Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are true? (select all that apply)

Answer 6

Most Europeans made a living in agriculture
Europe had high levels of infant mortality

Question 7

After creating the Church of England, King Henry VIII made the shrewd political decision to ______.

Answer 7

name himself the head of the church

Question 8

Which of the following was true of early modern Europe as a whole? (select all that apply)

Answer 8

Nobles and aristocrats held all the power and nearly all the wealth
Life was brutal, dangerous, and short

Question 9

Which of the following was not a result of the Spanish Armada?

Answer 9

Added to the dominance of Spain’s American Empire

Question 10

The dominant Islamic empire during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was the ______ Empire.

Answer 10

Ottoman