Chapter 1-Converging Cultures

Question 1

What are two language grouping for American Indians

Answer 1

Algonquin & Iroqois

Question 2

This is a far northern American Indian group

Answer 2

Inuit or Eskimos

Question 3

Who was an important Iroquois leader?

Answer 3

Hiawatha

Question 4

How was property ownership and leadership passed through Native American Indian culture?

Answer 4

Matrilineal through the female line

Question 5

What animal had a great impact on changing the way of life for Great Plains Indians

Answer 5

horse

Question 6

Eastern Native American Indians lived in _____.

Answer 6

Long houses

Question 7

Great plains Indians lived in ____

Answer 7

Teepes

Question 8

Northeast US Indians were primarily ___.

Answer 8

Iroquois

Question 9

Southeast US Indians were primarily ___.

Answer 9

Cherokee

Question 10

What type of farming did Southeast US Indians use?

Answer 10

Slash and burn

Question 11

Many Iroquois practiced _____ to get their food

Answer 11

hunting and gathering

Question 12

Inuit indians lived in _____ and used ____ during their long winter nights>

Answer 12

igloos and oil lamps

Question 13

a good spirit for native americans is called a good ___

Answer 13

kachina

Question 14

list five pacific ocean indian groups that primarily fished for food

Answer 14

chinook
kwakiutls
salish
tlingit
nootkas

Question 15

what desert dominates north and west africa

Answer 15

sahara desert

Question 16

list three empires in west africa

Answer 16

ghana
mali
songhai

Question 17

what people were from the mali empire

Answer 17

malinke people

Question 18

which empire was ruled by mansa musa and mansa sulayman?

Answer 18

Mali Empire

Question 19

Where did the Edo people settle and create an empire?

Answer 19

Benin on the cost of Guinea and Ghana

Question 20

What people were in the Songhai empire?

Answer 20

Sorko people

Question 21

Black Slavery primarily was used on ___ plantations in the Caribbean.

Answer 21

Sugar Plantations

Question 22

Who opened a school for navigation in Europe?

Answer 22

Prince Henry of Portugal

Question 23

list four new navigation tools in Europe.

Answer 23

compass
astrolabe
caravels
lateen sails

Question 24

who came to North America using longboats, settled, and then died off about 900.

Answer 24

Vikings

Question 25

What explorer sailed for Portugal around Africa to India?

Answer 25

Vasco Da Gama

Question 26

Where were most of Spain's colonies?

Answer 26

South and Central America

Question 27

Florida was known as the land of ____ by the Spanish.

Answer 27

Flowers

Question 28

What was the first capital of the Spanish colonies?

Answer 28

Santo Domingo on Hispaniola

Question 29

Who was the first European explorer to reach the Pacific in Central America?

Answer 29

Balboa for Spain

Question 30

Who was the Spanish explorer to land on Watling Island in the Bahamas in 1492?

Answer 30

Christopher Columbus for Spain

Question 31

Split the new world between Spanish and Portuguese

Answer 31

line of demarcation

Question 32

The _____ was the sharing of crops, ideas, and tools between Africa, America, and Europe, a so called global interaction.

Answer 32

Columbian Exchange

Question 33

The _____ was when oceans levels were lower exposing the Bering Land Bridge for migration routes.

Answer 33

Ice Age

Question 34

From which continent is it believed that the first Americans came from?

Answer 34

Asia

Question 35

What is used to determine age of artifacts found in archaeology?

Answer 35

radiocarbon dating

Question 36

This is the earliest known civilization in Mexico?

Answer 36

Olmec

Question 37

These people were master architects in Mexico.

Answer 37

Toltecs

Question 38

These ancient people lived in cliffs like those found in Checo Canyon, New Mexico

Answer 38

Anasazi

Question 39

This early North American civilization used irrigation in the Southwest US

Answer 39

Hohokam

Question 40

which Mississippian culture built many Monunds in the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys.

Answer 40

Adena

Question 41

This was a great city near St. Louis for early Mississippian culture.

Answer 41

Cahokia