Chapter 1-4 AMH Questions and All
Correct Answers.
single, young, and male Spanish laborers, craftsmen, soldiers, clerks and priests emigrated to
the New World for social advancement, wealth, and what, with over 1 million arrivals during the
3 centuries of Spanish colonial rule? - Answer land
according to sistema de castas, the racial hierarchy that prioritized "purity of blood" and
dictated social and political status in Spanish colonial society, Iberian-born Spaniards
(peninsular) occupied the highest status; their descendants, spaniards born in the new world
(criollos) took the next rung; and individuals of mixed Spanish and indian heritage, named what,
followed? - Answer mestizos
the several different America indian groups in the new world shared some broad beliefs, many
of which greatly differed from European belief systems, from more sexual, political, and marital
freedom for women to the concept that the use of what for activities such as farming, hunting,
and encampment did not imply the right to its permanent possession? - Answer land
in 1565, spanish explorer pedro menedez de aviles founded what city in Florida, which remains
the oldest, continuously occupied European settlement in present-day America? - Answer st.
augustine
generating a hybrid culture that was neither fully Spanish nor fully indian, the large indigenous
populations in Spain's colonial empire ensured a degree of cultural and ethnic blending call
mestizaje in Spanish, which translates to what in English? - Answer miscegenation
what indigenous group managed a vast and complex mountain empire that comprised half of
the continent of South America from present-day Ecuador to central Chile and Argentina, Half of
whom succumbed to smallpox in 1525 before the arrival of the conquistadors, allowing
conquistador Francisco pizzaro, with only 168 men, to take control of the empire, seize the
capital of Cuzco in 1533, and enslave the indigenous people? - Answer incas
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest, one of the most densely populated regions of North
America, developed a ritual called what, during which the people celebrated events such as
births and weddings with a feast, performances, and artwork that lasted several days, reflecting
the wealth, power, and prestige of the host? - Answer potlatch
to help establish the northern hemisphere's 1st settlement around 1200 B.C., mesoamericans in
present-day Mexico and Central America domesticated maize, also known as what, which
spread across North America, and continues to play a major cultural role in many American
Indian communities? - Answer corn
, spain's queen Isabella and king Ferdinand gave Christopher Columbus, an Italian-born sailor
who studied under Portuguese navigators, 3 ships to sail west from Europe to reach Asia; after 2
months from setting sail in 1492, Columbus and his 90 men landed in what present-day chain in
islands? - Answer Bahamas
as a result of thousands of years of geographic isolation from the old world's deadly plagues, to
which europeans and africans had developed immunities over many centuries, American
Indians quickly succumbed to deadly diseased, such as smallpox and influenza, upon contact
with europeans, causing the death of ca. 90% of indigenous people from what within the 1st
150 years of European contact? - Answer epidemics
the Spanish encountered what militaristic and wealthy indigenous group in modern day Mexico,
members of which had established the largest empire in the new world, centered around the
city tenochtitlan, which was founded in 1325, rivaled the world's largest cities in size and
grandeur, was comprised of 70,000 buildings, and houses ca. 200,000 to 250,000 people? -
Answer Aztecs
spanish expeditions in North America included conquistador Francisco Vazquez de Coronado's
pillage across the southwest, and the torture, rape, and enslavement of American Indians across
the Mississippi River into the southeast by what infamous conquistador? - Answer hernando
de soto
while seafaring Italian traders controlled trade with Asia via the mediterranean, what two
European nations sought a more direct route via the Atlantic during the 15th century? - Answer
Spain and Portugal
what profitable commodity did the Portuguese cultivate along the mediterranean and in the
canary islands off the Atlantic Ocean by enslaving the Indigenous people there, called the
Guanches, soon after the arrival of europeans in the 15th century? - Answer sugar
chaco canyon In northern New Mexico was home to what ancestral people from 900 to 1300
A.D., with as many as 15,000 people engaging in sophisticated agricultural practices, extensive
trading networks, and domesticating animals, who subsequently were replaced by the apache
and Navajo? - Answer puebloan
Columbus encountered the indigenous Arawaks in the Caribbean islands who wore ornaments
made of what, prompting Columbus to locate and secure its source, return to Spain with
captured and branded Arawaks, and to promise the Spanish crown gold and slaves if Spain
funded return voyages? - Answer gold
what practice typically yielded more food than hunting, which allowed members of American
Indian communities to purse other skills, including religious leadership and creating art? -
Answer farming
Correct Answers.
single, young, and male Spanish laborers, craftsmen, soldiers, clerks and priests emigrated to
the New World for social advancement, wealth, and what, with over 1 million arrivals during the
3 centuries of Spanish colonial rule? - Answer land
according to sistema de castas, the racial hierarchy that prioritized "purity of blood" and
dictated social and political status in Spanish colonial society, Iberian-born Spaniards
(peninsular) occupied the highest status; their descendants, spaniards born in the new world
(criollos) took the next rung; and individuals of mixed Spanish and indian heritage, named what,
followed? - Answer mestizos
the several different America indian groups in the new world shared some broad beliefs, many
of which greatly differed from European belief systems, from more sexual, political, and marital
freedom for women to the concept that the use of what for activities such as farming, hunting,
and encampment did not imply the right to its permanent possession? - Answer land
in 1565, spanish explorer pedro menedez de aviles founded what city in Florida, which remains
the oldest, continuously occupied European settlement in present-day America? - Answer st.
augustine
generating a hybrid culture that was neither fully Spanish nor fully indian, the large indigenous
populations in Spain's colonial empire ensured a degree of cultural and ethnic blending call
mestizaje in Spanish, which translates to what in English? - Answer miscegenation
what indigenous group managed a vast and complex mountain empire that comprised half of
the continent of South America from present-day Ecuador to central Chile and Argentina, Half of
whom succumbed to smallpox in 1525 before the arrival of the conquistadors, allowing
conquistador Francisco pizzaro, with only 168 men, to take control of the empire, seize the
capital of Cuzco in 1533, and enslave the indigenous people? - Answer incas
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest, one of the most densely populated regions of North
America, developed a ritual called what, during which the people celebrated events such as
births and weddings with a feast, performances, and artwork that lasted several days, reflecting
the wealth, power, and prestige of the host? - Answer potlatch
to help establish the northern hemisphere's 1st settlement around 1200 B.C., mesoamericans in
present-day Mexico and Central America domesticated maize, also known as what, which
spread across North America, and continues to play a major cultural role in many American
Indian communities? - Answer corn
, spain's queen Isabella and king Ferdinand gave Christopher Columbus, an Italian-born sailor
who studied under Portuguese navigators, 3 ships to sail west from Europe to reach Asia; after 2
months from setting sail in 1492, Columbus and his 90 men landed in what present-day chain in
islands? - Answer Bahamas
as a result of thousands of years of geographic isolation from the old world's deadly plagues, to
which europeans and africans had developed immunities over many centuries, American
Indians quickly succumbed to deadly diseased, such as smallpox and influenza, upon contact
with europeans, causing the death of ca. 90% of indigenous people from what within the 1st
150 years of European contact? - Answer epidemics
the Spanish encountered what militaristic and wealthy indigenous group in modern day Mexico,
members of which had established the largest empire in the new world, centered around the
city tenochtitlan, which was founded in 1325, rivaled the world's largest cities in size and
grandeur, was comprised of 70,000 buildings, and houses ca. 200,000 to 250,000 people? -
Answer Aztecs
spanish expeditions in North America included conquistador Francisco Vazquez de Coronado's
pillage across the southwest, and the torture, rape, and enslavement of American Indians across
the Mississippi River into the southeast by what infamous conquistador? - Answer hernando
de soto
while seafaring Italian traders controlled trade with Asia via the mediterranean, what two
European nations sought a more direct route via the Atlantic during the 15th century? - Answer
Spain and Portugal
what profitable commodity did the Portuguese cultivate along the mediterranean and in the
canary islands off the Atlantic Ocean by enslaving the Indigenous people there, called the
Guanches, soon after the arrival of europeans in the 15th century? - Answer sugar
chaco canyon In northern New Mexico was home to what ancestral people from 900 to 1300
A.D., with as many as 15,000 people engaging in sophisticated agricultural practices, extensive
trading networks, and domesticating animals, who subsequently were replaced by the apache
and Navajo? - Answer puebloan
Columbus encountered the indigenous Arawaks in the Caribbean islands who wore ornaments
made of what, prompting Columbus to locate and secure its source, return to Spain with
captured and branded Arawaks, and to promise the Spanish crown gold and slaves if Spain
funded return voyages? - Answer gold
what practice typically yielded more food than hunting, which allowed members of American
Indian communities to purse other skills, including religious leadership and creating art? -
Answer farming
