Chapter1

Question 1

Pangea

Answer 1

Theory that all the continents were all together in to one mega continent

Question 2

After the flood, sea levels dropped and there was a land bridge between what two places? What was that land bridge called?

Answer 2

Asia and North America

Beringia

Question 3

Why did the amscestors of the native Americans. Nimadic hunters. Come across the bridge?

Answer 3

Followed the migrating animals

Question 4

Who was the last group

Answer 4

The Inuit, Eskimo’s

Question 5

What was the significance of corn?

Answer 5

Maize changed their way of life. It allowed them to settle down and start perminant communities.

Question 6

Name the four largest civilizations and where they’re from

Answer 6

Olmec. Mexico
Inca. Peru
Aztec. Mexico
Mayans Central America

Question 7

What were theoldest groups in America

Answer 7

Anasazi “ancient ones” and mound builders.

Question 8

Five major groups of native Americans

Answer 8

Northwest
Southwest
Plains 
Eastern woodland and Great Lakes Indians
Southeastern

Question 9

First Europeans to the americas

Answer 9

Vikings (Leif Erickson) Canada

Question 10

What sparked the age of discovery

Answer 10

Marco polos adventures
Technology
Crusades

Question 11

Who was the first to go around Africa? Dark continent?

Answer 11

Barthokonew Dias

Question 12

Who was vasco da gama

Answer 12

First to reach India by going around Africa. Indies

Question 13

What happened as a result of columbuses discovery?

Answer 13

A global economic system

Question 14

What did Europe America and Africa provide

Answer 14

Europe. Provided markets and capital
Africa provided a labor force
America provided the raw materials and food

Question 15

Why would the world never be the same?

Answer 15

The exchange of goods, ideas, people etc between Europe and the americas.

Question 16

What did the Americans introduce?

Answer 16

Tobacco, corn, beans, squash, tomatoes, potatoes, chocolate etc.

Question 17

Good things Europeans j to diced to Americans.

Answer 17

Livestock cattle pigs HORSES
Sugar revolutionize the diet
Citrus prevented scurvy

and disease. Small pox, yellow fever, malaria.

Question 18

Northwest

Answer 18

Walla Walla, nex lerce. Known for totem pole and potlatch

Question 19

South West

Answer 19

Pueblo, Navaho, Apache

Known for kachina. Spirits

Question 20

Plains

Answer 20

Sioux, Cheyenne. Known for the Mandela (spirit shield) dream catcher (spirit trap)

Question 21

Eastern woodland and Great Lakes indians

Answer 21

Iroquois, mochican, Erie. Known for peace pipe, passport and treaty.

Three sister farming. Maize, beans, and squash.

Iroquois confederation.
Hiawatha -legendary leader
Five tribes and New York
Matrilineal
Possessions passed through the female line.

Question 22

South eastern

Answer 22

Cherokee, Seminole, etc.

Known for corn festivals and war and piece chiefs.

Question 23

Nation state

Answer 23

The form of political society that combines centralized government with a high degree of ethnic and cultural unity,

Question 24

Matrilineal.

Answer 24

The form of society in which family line, power, and wealth are passed primarily through the female side.

Question 25

Confederacy

Answer 25

An alliance or League of Nations or people’s looser than a federation

Question 26

Primeval

Answer 26

Concerning the earliest origin of things

Question 27

Saga

Answer 27

A lengthy story or poem recounting the great deeds and adventures of a people and their heroes.

Question 28

Middlemen

Answer 28

In trading systems, those dealers who operate between the original buyers and the retail merchants who sell to customers.

Question 29

Caravel

Answer 29

A small vessel with a high deck and three triangular sails.

Question 30

Plantation

Answer 30

A large scale agricultural enterprise growing commercial crops and usually employing coerced or slave labor. They built up their own systematic traffic in slaves to work the sugar plantations.

Question 31

Ecosystem

Answer 31

A naturally evolved network of relations among organisms in a stable environment.

Question 32

Demographic

Answer 32

Concerning the general characteristics of a given population.

Question 33

Conquistador

Answer 33

A Spanish conqueror or adventurer in the americas.

Question 34

Capitalism

Answer 34

An economic system characterized by private property, general free trade, and pen and accessible markets.

Question 35

Encomienda

Answer 35

The Spanish labor system in which persons were held to unpaid service under the permanent control of their masters, though not legally owned by the,.

Question 36

Mestizo

Answer 36

A person of mixed Native American and European ancestry.

Question 37

Province

Answer 37

Medium sized subunit of territory within a larger nation or empire.

Question 38

What was the geography of the North American continent shaped by?

Answer 38

Glaciers of the great ice age