US History - Worlds Collide

Question 1

Feudalism

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Renaissance

Answer 2

The intellectual and artistic flowering in Europe between 1400 and 1600 sparked by a revival of interest in Greek and Roman art, literature, and politics.

Question 3

Portuguese Explorations

Answer 3

Prince Henry the Navigator played a key role in sponsoring exploration.
The Portuguese explored the Atlantic coast of Africa seeking direct access to gold and slaves and are credited with starting the slave trade.

Question 4

Cortés and the Aztecs

Answer 4

Hernan Cortés arrived in Mexico in 1519.
and exploited native resentment toward the Aztecs to overthrow their empire.
Smallpox outbreaks undermined the Aztecs’ ability to resist the Spanish.

Question 5

Columbian Exchange

Answer 5

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus’s voyages.

Question 6

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 6

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

Question 7

The Fur Trade

Answer 7

Fur traders were critical to New France’s success. Indians were active participants in the trade. In the early seventeenth century, the French made an effort to monopolize the trade.

Question 8

Protestant Reformation

Answer 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.

Question 9

Predestination

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Protestants

Answer 10

Those who protested against the Roman Catholic Church.

Question 11

Anglican Church

Answer 11

Also known as the Church of England, it was created when Henry VIII (King of England) wished to get a divorce from Catherine of Aragon

Question 12

Mayans and Aztecs

Answer 12

Some achievements included the production of corn, calendars, roads, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, aqueducts, and architecture.

Question 13

Bubonic Plague (Black Death)

Answer 13

A deadly disease that spread across Asia, North Africa, & Europe in the mid-14th century, killing millions of people (1/3 of the European population)
Began with infected fleas
that traveled on rats and then people.

Question 14

buffalo

Answer 14

An animal that was used by the Plains Indians for food, shelter, and clothing.

Question 15

Henry VIII of England

Answer 15

Tudor king who split the Church of England to divorce himself from Catherine of Aragon, 1509-1547