Unit 1 Chapter 1

Question 1

A warrior people who dominated the Valley of Mexico from 1100-1521

Answer 1

Aztecs

Question 2

A subcontinent bridging Asia and North America, named after the Bering Straits

Answer 2

Beringia

Question 3

A powerful new and sophisticated style of tool making, unlike anything found in the Old World

Answer 3

Clovis tradition

Question 4

The region stretching from central Mexico to Central America

Answer 4

Mesoamerica

Question 5

Dispersed settlements of Indian farmers in the Southwest

Answer 5

Rancherias

Question 6

The long struggle (ending in 1492) during which Spanish Christians re conquered the Iberian peninsula from Muslim occupiers

Answer 6

Reconquista

Question 7

Treaty negotiated by the pope in 1494 to resolve the territorial claims of Spain and Portugal

Answer 7

Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 8

Martin Luther’s challenge to the Catholic Church, initiated in 1517, calling for a return to what he understood to be the purer practices and beliefs of the early Church

Answer 8

Protestant Reformation

Question 9

The belief that God decided at the moment of Creation which humans would achieve salvation

Answer 9

Predestination

Question 10

A medieval European social system in which land was divided into hundreds of small holdings

Answer 10

Feudalism

Question 11

The intellectual and artistic flowering in Europe during the 14,15, and 16th centuries sparked by a revival of interest in classical antiquity

Answer 11

Renaissance

Question 12

In the Spanish colonies, the grant to a Spanish settler of a certain number of Indian subjects, who would pay him tribute in goods and labor

Answer 12

Encomienda system

Question 13

A 16th century Spanish historian, social reformer. Officially appointed as “Protector of the Indians”

Answer 13

Bartolome de las Casas

Question 14

Defender of the Spanish Empire’s right of conquest, colonization, and evangelization in the so-called New World

Answer 14

Juan de Sepulveda

Question 15

A period of cultural and biological exchanged between the Old and New Worlds (eg. Plants, animals, diseases, technology)

Answer 15

Colombian Exchange

Question 16

Modern and old communities of Native Americans in the Southwestern United States

Answer 16

Pueblo

Question 17

A tribe of the Great Plains/Rockies, specifically located at the source of the Mississippi River in the 17th century

Answer 17

Sioux

Patriarchal

Question 18

The collective term for several culturally related groups of Native American tribes originally from the Southwestern United States

Answer 18

Apache

Question 19

A historically powerful and important northeast Native American confederacy

Answer 19

Iroquois

Matriarchal

Question 20

One of the largest urban centers created in Mississippian peoples, containing 30,000 residents in 1250

Answer 20

Cahokia

Question 21

First Nation inhabitants of North America, live in Quebec, involved in fur trade with the French and Dutch

Answer 21

Algonquin

Question 22

Several groups of indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest, society had distinct social castes

Answer 22

Chinook

Question 23

A person of combined European and Amerindian descent

Answer 23

Mestizo

Question 24

Individuals in the Americas who are of mixed African and Amerindian ancestry

Answer 24

Zambo

Question 25

A double reflecting navigation instrument used to measure between any two visible objects

Answer 25

Sextant

Question 26

A business entity where different stocks can be bought and owned by shareholders, allows for unequal ownership

Answer 26

Joint-stock company