HIST2111 EXAM 1 MATERIAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS 2025/2026

HIST2111 EXAM 1 MATERIAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS 2025/2026 Container Revolution - Answer -~1000CE, Native Americans learn how to store food Ocmulgee / Modern Day Macon - Answer -Largest eastern American city through 1600 CE Swidden Agriculture - Answer --Land is cleared by fire, crops are planted for a few seasons, land is then left alone to regenerate -Used by Native Americans Hernando de soto - Answer --Spanish, 1539 -Sailed to tampa bay area with soldiers, pigs, horses -conquered native populations, noted that the southeast was VERY populated-no record of de Soto kept, so colonial settlers thought THEY were the first there Cause of Mass Native American Death - Answer --PIGS destroyed the ecosystem balance by bringing disease and going off to stray areas -When European colonists arrived to America later, there was so much vegetation and food (left by a dying Native population) that they believed "God" had gifted them this land Early Europe - Answer --Small Kingdoms developed into larger groups / nation states with monarchs and government -This was happening around the same time Native American settlements were developing into their own form of government Mercantilism - Answer --pushed forward by MONARCHS who realized they needed more economic/political power -led to a rise in technology - (1) involved use of colonies for raw materials/resources (2) mother country sold finished product of material back to the colony (3) results in an export surplus- led to a trade system revolving on gold/silver currency in which government regulates products Ferdinand + Isabella - Answer --1492: Two rulers who married and merged into Spain and are rivaling Portugal in exploration of the world -They send Christopher Colombus to America and engage in a ship building battle with Portugal