Deck 1: Ancient America and Africa

Question 1

How did Europeans view Native American people and their behavior?

A) as cultural savages
B) as religious pagans
C) as people to be hated
D) All of the above.

Answer 1

All of the above.

Question 2

The movement toward more intensive and profitable agriculture in the sixteenth century

A) led to a desire among French noblemen to maximize profits.
B) marked the first step toward industrial development in England.
C) strengthened regional cultures and leadership in Spain.
D) relieved the pressures of unemployment and poverty in England.

Answer 2

marked the first step toward industrial development in England.

Question 3

To Europeans, "China" was known as

A) America.
B) Cathay.
C) the Sandwich Islands.
D) the Renaissance.
E) the Black Death.

Answer 3

Cathay.

Question 4

In 1589 in France, a noble faction assassinated King

A) Charles I.
B) Charles II.
C) Henry II.
D) Henry III.

Question 5

People from Asia discovered the "New World" thousands of years before Christopher Columbus.

Question 6

Humans settled the Americas, Japan, and Scandinavia around 35,000 B.C.E.

Question 7

Anthropologists believe that the "agricultural revolution," the process by which man learned to domesticate plant life, occurred originally in Africa around 9,000 years ago.

Question 8

The first European settlers thought the gigantic earthworks made by mound-building societies were constructed by some ancient civilization that had found North America.

Question 9

In the Southeast, native civilizations traced their ancestry back at least 8,000 years.

Question 10

The Iroquois Confederation numbered approximately 10,000 people by 1500.

Question 11

To Native American peoples, trade was not only an economic matter but also a way to preserve reciprocity between individuals and communities.

Question 12

Silver provided the source of West African wealth as it did in Meso-America.

Question 13

Africans had a different conception of slavery than did Europeans before 1492. .

Question 14

Slavery was a new concept to Africans, unknown until Europeans introduced it.

Question 15

Spain ousted Muslim occupiers in 1492, the same year that Columbus ventured to the Americas.

Question 16

Portuguese sailors ventured down the West African coast by the 1400s.

Question 17

At ________, the Anasazi created large cities, such as Pueblo Bonita.

Question 18

The city of ________, near present-day St. Louis, served as the urban center of Mississippian culture.

Question 19

The religion of ________ rose rapidly for several centuries after its founding in 610 C.E.

Question 20

The city of ________ in Ghana contained the busiest and wealthiest marketplace in West Africa.

Question 21

In 1215, the English aristocracy curbed the powers of the king when they forced him to accept the ________.

Question 22

The explorer ________ returned to Venice, Italy, in 1291 with tales of the riches of the East.

Question 23

The nation of ________ lost one-third of its population from the Black Death.

Question 24

The rebirth of learning in Europe, called the ________, encouraged freedom of thought, richness of expression, and an emphasis on human abilities.

Question 25

The first European-controlled ________ were founded by the Portuguese .

Question 26

Improvements in sailing by the Portuguese were derived from the _______.