HIST1301 Exam One 2023 with 100% questions and answers

The people who largely dominated much of the major islands of the Caribbean (those islands geographically are referred to as the Greater Antilles)? Taino A group of people that have no fixed home and who move about seasonally in pursuit of food, water, and other resources are known as Nomads Why in such areas as the Great Plains or the Great Basin of North America did great cities not emerge by the Native American people that lived there? The environment was not conducive to highly productive agriculture. In what Native American region of North America was maize, more commonly known as corn, first cultivated? Mesoamerica This mighty civilization of Native Americans was at its height a highly stratified society (class structure) with great wealth and power. Its capital was Tenochtitlan (present-day Mexico City). While they called themselves the Mexica, to the Spanish, they were called the Aztecs The Native American cultures that stretched from the Atlantic Coast of North America to roughly the Mississippi River (and a bit beyond) are referred to as the ___________ culture. Eastern Woodlands The greatest Olmec city was Teotihuacan Why was agriculture considered unnecessary by the Native American peoples of the Pacific Northwest? The region was so full of available plants and animals that farming was simply unnecessary. As the Ice Age came to an end, this led to changing environments throughout North America. This forced Native Americans to adjust to these new climates, topography, animals, and plants. This led to the emergence of new Ecosystems Which of the following was not a people of the Eastern Woodlands culture? Apache Huron Tuscaroras Choctaw Apache Today, crops originally cultivated by Native Americans make up how much of the world's crops? Three-fifths According to map 1.2 in your textbook, the Puyallup relied most heavily upon what primary subsistence mode? Fishing The Inuit or Eskimo people lived (and frequently still do live) in a region referred to as the Subarctic Due to the highly productive agriculture in Mesoamerica, It allowed more and more people from that region to concentrate in forms of work beyond food production. Why did so many of the Ice Age animals go extinct as the Ice Age came to an end? A combination of overhunting and climate change pushed various species to extinction. The greatest known Native American city north of the Rio Grande was Cahokia A cultural region of Central America that stretches from modern-day Honduras and Nicaragua northward to central Mexico is known as Mesoamerica When the earliest of Native Americans arrived in North America, they traveled either down an ice free corridor along the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains or more likely traveling By boat down the Pacific Coast. Potatoes are originally from South America. Why did it take literally thousands of years for cultivation of that crop to move to North America? The topography and environments of the Americas stymied it. The first city builders among Native Americans were the Olmecs Prior to the end of the last Ice Age, North America (as well as elsewhere) possessed a great many species of animals like mammoths, giant bison, and giant sloths. Those now extinct animals are referred to as experts as Megafauna It comes as a surprise to many, but Native American peoples of what is today the vast Amazon rain forest actually farmed it. They focused on Food-bearing trees Why were Native Americans largely spared from most of the world's most contagious diseases prior to the arrival of Europeans? Native Americans did not live particularly close to domesticated animals From where did the earliest Native Americans (otherwise known as Paleo-Indians) come from? Siberia This Native American group established such villages as Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, and Canyon de Chelly. Although for a long time referred to as the Anasazi, they are more properly known as the Ancestoral Pueblo peoples The Portuguese mariner that first discovered the southern tip of Africa? Bartolomeu Dias Portuguese mariner who first sailed to India? Vasco de Gama The European country that first became heavily involved in the use of African slaves in order to produce cash crops like sugar? Portugal Of the following, which highly sought after good was not coming from China to Europe? Salt Spices Silks Ceramics Salt Still to this day, this community on the Atlantic coast of Florida is the oldest continuously occupied settlement (non-Native Americans) in what is today the United States. St. Augustine Who were the rulers of Spain when the last Moorish kingdom of the Iberian Peninsula was defeated? Isabella and Ferdinand British (English) king that removed his kingdom from Catholicism so that he could divorce his first wife? Henry VIII Name of the Spanish conquistador whose expedition first discovered the Grand Canyon for Europeans? Francisco de Coronado In the years following the Spanish "discovery" of the New World, the Spanish quickly began oppressing and exploiting the native peoples they found there. The most vocal critic of this was a Spaniard known as Bartolome de las Casas The military conquest of the Iberian Peninsula from Islamic Moors by Christian rulers was known as the Reconquista The type of ship developed by the Portuguese in the 1400s that played the early leading role in trans-Atlantic exploration? Caravel