AMH2010-TEST 1- Questions with All
Correct Answers 2026 Updated.
collision of inhabitants of 3 worlds - Answer Africa, Europe and Americas
Bering Strait - Answer 35,000 yrs ago, crossed from East Africa and spread out on this land
bridge
Indians and CC - Answer CC screwed up, thought he was in Asia, thus called Native
Americans, "the Indians"
KNOW AT LEAST 10 TRIBES - Answer Aztecs, Blackfoot, creek, Cheyenne, Cherokee, Huron,
Incas, Mayans,ottawa, sioux
similarities btw. Indian tribes - Answer strong kinship, belief in more than one god, work
assignments based on sex, dif. economies
Primary crop - Answer maize (corn)
3 sister farming - Answer maize, squash and bean
work based on sex - Answer men-hunt, fish, trade, gather
women-farming
wampum - Answer shell used as currency/money by Indians
Indian family life - Answer Matrilineal-family membership traced thru female line
ex.women could divorce,grandmother is head of family, husband moves in with wife's family
"Mourning War" - Answer If member dies, tribe attacks another tribe and kidnaps their
member to "replenish" tribe's energy. Kidnapped person gets responsibilities of dead member.
Pueblo - Answer In SW, had developed own irrigation system as well as textiles and ceramics.
Cohakia - Answer major native american city (Midwest-Illinois),
, Cohakia's decline 14th C - Answer possibly drought, farmers not nomads
Mound Builders - Answer built 10 stories high mound (Ohio/missi. river valley) for temples
and mortuaries for upper class
SW (economy) - Answer pueblos
NE(economy) - Answer Iroquois fished
SE (economy) - Answer creek/Cherokee fish/farm
along plains (economy) - Answer Apache/Sioux hunted
Iroquois confederacy/5 nations - Answer significant Indian group that was alliance of
chondaga, seneca, cayuga,cheida, mohawk. Goal- keep brits out
clash of culture - Answer land ownership, religion
Pedro Cabral - Answer P. explorer 1500-discovered Brazil
Vasco Nunez de Balboa - Answer Spanish explorer,1513 discovered Pacific Ocean
reasons for exploration - Answer access to trade route in east, spread of chrisitianity,
power/glory, gold
Prince Henry The Navigator - Answer 1415 captured Ceuto, discovered Gold
1430s Portugal sucesses - Answer control over Azares, Canary and Maderia islands
Bartholomeu Dias - Answer Porteguese explorer,rounded the southernmost tip of Africa in
1488
vasco da gama - Answer P. explorer, 1498 rounds tip of africa and reached india
Pedro cabral - Answer P. explorer, Claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500.
Correct Answers 2026 Updated.
collision of inhabitants of 3 worlds - Answer Africa, Europe and Americas
Bering Strait - Answer 35,000 yrs ago, crossed from East Africa and spread out on this land
bridge
Indians and CC - Answer CC screwed up, thought he was in Asia, thus called Native
Americans, "the Indians"
KNOW AT LEAST 10 TRIBES - Answer Aztecs, Blackfoot, creek, Cheyenne, Cherokee, Huron,
Incas, Mayans,ottawa, sioux
similarities btw. Indian tribes - Answer strong kinship, belief in more than one god, work
assignments based on sex, dif. economies
Primary crop - Answer maize (corn)
3 sister farming - Answer maize, squash and bean
work based on sex - Answer men-hunt, fish, trade, gather
women-farming
wampum - Answer shell used as currency/money by Indians
Indian family life - Answer Matrilineal-family membership traced thru female line
ex.women could divorce,grandmother is head of family, husband moves in with wife's family
"Mourning War" - Answer If member dies, tribe attacks another tribe and kidnaps their
member to "replenish" tribe's energy. Kidnapped person gets responsibilities of dead member.
Pueblo - Answer In SW, had developed own irrigation system as well as textiles and ceramics.
Cohakia - Answer major native american city (Midwest-Illinois),
, Cohakia's decline 14th C - Answer possibly drought, farmers not nomads
Mound Builders - Answer built 10 stories high mound (Ohio/missi. river valley) for temples
and mortuaries for upper class
SW (economy) - Answer pueblos
NE(economy) - Answer Iroquois fished
SE (economy) - Answer creek/Cherokee fish/farm
along plains (economy) - Answer Apache/Sioux hunted
Iroquois confederacy/5 nations - Answer significant Indian group that was alliance of
chondaga, seneca, cayuga,cheida, mohawk. Goal- keep brits out
clash of culture - Answer land ownership, religion
Pedro Cabral - Answer P. explorer 1500-discovered Brazil
Vasco Nunez de Balboa - Answer Spanish explorer,1513 discovered Pacific Ocean
reasons for exploration - Answer access to trade route in east, spread of chrisitianity,
power/glory, gold
Prince Henry The Navigator - Answer 1415 captured Ceuto, discovered Gold
1430s Portugal sucesses - Answer control over Azares, Canary and Maderia islands
Bartholomeu Dias - Answer Porteguese explorer,rounded the southernmost tip of Africa in
1488
vasco da gama - Answer P. explorer, 1498 rounds tip of africa and reached india
Pedro cabral - Answer P. explorer, Claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500.
