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Question 1

A strait (land bridge of ice) separating Alaska and Russia.

Answer 1

Bering strait

Question 2

A document giving permission to start a colony

Answer 2

Charter

Question 3

An expansion of Europe’s economy. Led to a social hierarchy

Answer 3

Commercial Revolution

Question 4

European missionaries convert many people to Christianity. Split in Christian church.

Answer 4

Protestant Reformation

Question 5

The Spanish army (sailed by ship)

Answer 5

Spanish Armada

Question 6

People moving from one place to another

Answer 6

Migration

Question 7

The first empire to come to Meso America

Answer 7

Olmec

Question 8

An empire in Guatemala that was invaded by the Aztec they built stone sanctuaries and made the first calendar

Answer 8

Mayan

Question 9

“Ancient Ones” discovered Four Corners

Answer 9

Anazi

Question 10

Aztec king, ruled when Spanish were there.

Answer 10

Moctezuma

Question 11

Founder of the missions

Answer 11

Junipero Serra

Question 12

Where was the Aztec empire

Answer 12

Tenochtitlan, Mexico

On a lake

Question 13

Where was the Inca empire

Answer 13

Andes of South America

From Chile to Ecuador

Question 14

Who believed Cortez to be a god

Answer 14

Moctezuma

Question 15

Why did the Incas demise?

Answer 15

Pizarro and his allies conquered them.

Question 16

Why did the Aztec demise?

Answer 16

Fighting and disease

Question 17

Name the two regions of Mesoamerica

Answer 17

Mayan and Aztec

Question 18

What were the effects of the Ice Ages on Early America

Answer 18

Formed Bering Land Bridge

Moved people to North America

Question 19

A Spanish Priest who defended American Indians’ rights

Answer 19

Bartolomé de Las Casas

Question 20

It gave settles the right to tax local Native Americans to make them work.

Answer 20

Economienda system

Question 21

A Portuguese captain, set out with a Spanish fleet to sail to Asia. His crew were the first to sail completely around the world.

Answer 21

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 22

Italian explorer, (first to New World) he was convinced that he could reach Asia by sailing west where to cross the Atlantic ocean he gained the support of Spain’s monarchs and commanded the small fleet that reads the so-called new world setting off a tide of European exploration of the area

Answer 22

Christopher Columbos

Question 23

Spanish conquistador who sailed from Balboa on the discovery of the Pacific ocean he later pursued rumors of golden cities in the Andes mountains of South America and concord into empire

Answer 23

Francisco Pizarro

Question 24

Spanish conquistador conquered Mexico and brought about the fall of the Aztec empire

Answer 24

Hernán Cortés

Question 25

People who took the Bering Strait from Alaska to North America during the ice age.

Answer 25

Paleo-Indians

Question 26

They hoped to find a _______________ through North America that would let ships sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific

Answer 26

Northwest Passage

Question 27

The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases became known as the _______ because it resulted from Columbus's explorations.

Answer 27

Columbian Exchange

Question 28

Soldiers who led military expeditions in the Americas

Answer 28

Conquistadors

Question 29

Searched present-day Florida in vain for magical fountain of youth

Answer 29

Juan Ponce de Leon

Question 30

Traveled through Florida North Carolina and 1539

Answer 30

Hernando de Soto

Question 31

Began exploring an area stretching from present-day New Mexico to Kansas without finding the cities of gold for which he was searching

Answer 31

Vásquez de Coronado

Question 32

Most successful (sea dog) raider of Spanish treasure ships. Supported by Queen Elizabeth I

Answer 32

Sir Francis Drake

Question 33

First European explorer of North America

Answer 33

John Cabot

Question 34

Popularized tobacco

Answer 34

Sir Walter Raleigh