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Chapter 1Gillon/Matson The American Experiment

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Question

Generally speaking, humans began migrating to the Americas about

a) 30,000 Years ago

b) 50,000 Years ago

c) 70,000 Years ago

d) 100,000 Years ago


Answer

Generally speaking, humans began migrating to the Americas about

a) 30,000 Years ago

Hint: For further information on early migration, see page 2.


Question

North America supported many complex societies and cultures in the centuries before Europeans arrived. One mound-building culture supported a city, Cahokia, where perhaps 40,000 people lived between 950 and 1400 A.D. The city of Cahokia was located near what modern day larger urban center?

a) Pittsburgh

b) New York

c) St. Louis

d) Mexico City


Answer

North America supported many complex societies and cultures in the centuries before Europeans arrived. One mound-building culture supported a city, Cahokia, where perhaps 40,000 people lived between 950 and 1400 A.D. The city of Cahokia was located near what modern day larger urban center?

c) St. Louis

Hint: See page 6.


Question

The people who dominated a vast kingdom in the Andean highlands of Peru at the time Europeans first arrived in this area were the

a) Tiwanaku.

b) Inca.

c) Toltecs.

d) Mohicans.


Answer

The people who dominated a vast kingdom in the Andean highlands of Peru at the time Europeans first arrived in this area were the

b) Inca.

Hint: See pages 11.


Question

What powerful kingdom dominated West Africa from the sixth to the eleventh centuries?

a) Songhai

b) Benin

c) Congo

d) Ghana


Answer

What powerful kingdom dominated West Africa from the sixth to the eleventh centuries?

d) Ghana

Hint: See page 12.


Question

During the Middle Ages, European merchants’ contact with their counterparts in what region of the world resulted in greater European exposure to “exotic” material?

a) Arab world

b) Chinese world

c) Indian world

d) Viking world


Answer

During the Middle Ages, European merchants’ contact with their counterparts in what region of the world resulted in greater European exposure to “exotic” material?

a) Arab world

Hint: During the crusades, to liberate Christian holy sites from Muslim control, European merchants and others were exposed to these material comforts. See pages 16.


Question

The first European nation state to launch a concerted effort to explore new lands and peoples, Portugal, initially concentrated on developing commercial ties with what region of the world in the fifteenth century?

a) West Africa

b) India

c) Brazil

d) China


Answer

The first European nation state to launch a concerted effort to explore new lands and peoples, Portugal, initially concentrated on developing commercial ties with what region of the world in the fifteenth century?

a) West Africa

Hint: The Portuguese developed a brisk trade in gold and slaves with West Africans during this time. See page 22-23.


Question

Which Old World crop was most important to the growth of the slave trade between Africa and the Americas?

a) cotton

b) sugar

c) maize

d) tobacco


Answer

Which Old World crop was most important to the growth of the slave trade between Africa and the Americas?

b) sugar

Hint: Sugar was most important to the growth of the slave trade between Africa and the Americas See page 23-24


Question

All of the following were New World crops that Europeans adopted for their own use after 1492 EXCEPT

a) maize

b) the potato

c) coffee

d) chocolate


Answer

All of the following were New World crops that Europeans adopted for their own use after 1492 EXCEPT

c) coffee

Hint: Coffee originated in the Old World – Africa to be exact. See pages 29.


Question

The Catholic monk whose criticism of several Roman Catholic Church practices in the early fifteenth century led to the Reformation was

a) Jean Calvin.

b) Galileo Galilei.

c) Martin Luther.

d) Niccolo Machiavelli.


Answer

The Catholic monk whose criticism of several Roman Catholic Church practices in the early fifteenth century led to the Reformation was

c) Martin Luther.

Hint: See page 20-21.


Question

The process of nation state building began in all the following kingdoms in Europe between 1400-1600 except:

a) France

b) England

c) Spain

d) Germany


Answer

The process of nation state building began in all the following kingdoms in Europe between 1400-1600 except:

d) Germany

Hint: The region of Germany did not experience this development until much later. See page 19.

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