APUSH Ch. 1

no large animals were domesticated in the Americas except the llama in South America.

One factor that distinguished the Americas from Eurasia in the pre-Colcumbian era is that

the Canary Islands.

Prior to Columbus's voyages Spain had conquered

14,000

Some estimates claim that the Aztecs sacrificed ______ people at the dedication of the Great Pyramid of the Sun 1487.

Asians.

The Americas were first settled by

Tenochititlan

The Aztec capital, ______, was more populated than any western European city.

one-third.

The Black Death reduced Europe's population by

movable type.

The Chinese developed all of the following exept

Francisco de Coronado

The European discoverer of the Grand Canyon was

died out before Columbus's voyages, leaving no lasting impact.

The Norse settlements founded in the 1000s on the coast of Newfoundland

using terrace agriculture.

The Olmec people of Mesoamerica were known for all of the following except

Portuguese

The ______ established their first African fort at Cape Blanco in 1448.

Aztecs

The ______ practiced human sacrifice on a scale that had no parallel anywhere else in the world.

Anasazi

The ______ were cliff-dwelling people in the American southwest.

the Moluccas.

The center of the Portuguese empire in Asia was

developing a colonial economic system based on the production of staple crops by slave labor.

The crusades influenced European expansion by

Maya.

The earliest Native American civilization to leave detailed written records of their activities were the

stone

The early civilizations of America were basically _____ age cultures.

bringing previously isolated societies into contact with other nations and cultures.

The era of exploration contributed to world progress by

sugar

The first crop produced by African slave labor in the Caribbean was _____.

Moctezuma.

The leader of the Aztecs at the time of their defeat was

Erik the Red.

The leader of the Norsemen who settled in Greenland was

Aztec.

The leading practitioners of human sacrifice in the Americas were the

to expand trade with the non-Christian world.

The major reason that western Europe engaged in explorations in the fifteenth century was

silver.

The major source of wealth exploited by the Spaniards in the Americas was

disease.

The most devastating weapon bought to the Americas by the Europeans was

the prolonged isolation of the Americas from the rest of the world.

The most likely reason for European success in conquering the American Indian population is

were complex societies that developed north of Mexico.

The mound builders and the Anasazi were similar in that both

Spain.

The nation that led the way for European expansion into the Americas was

intercaetaras

The papal decree that divided the Americas between Portugal and Spain was called the _____.

corn

The primary crop of the first American farmers in Peru, Mexico, and the southwestern United States was _____.

were administered by unarmed Franciscan priests.

The sixteenth century Catholic missions of the native people

encomienda.

The system of labor control that allowed a person to exploit the labor force for a certain period of time was called

Cahokia

The world's largest earthen work was constructed by the Mississippian mound building people at ______.

slaves' descendants were often assimilated into the captor's society.

Under slavery as it existed in Africa

enslave and eventually replace it.

Unlike the Spanish in America, Portugal did not attempt to rule the Indian population directly, but attempted to

the Azores

Which of the following did Portugal acquire first?

They led huge armies of 50,000 to 100,000 well-trained Europeans.

Which of the following is not true of the Spanish conquistadors?

Most slaves were first enslaved by other Africans and then were sold to European traders.

Which of the following is true of the Atlantic slave trade in the late fifteenth century and thereafter?

He was an Italian navigator whose four voyages to the West were financed by the Spanish.

Which of the following was true of Christopher Columbus?

By 1500, serfdom had virtually disappeared and had been replaced by free labor in western Europe.

Which of the following was true of serfdom?

Francisco Pizarro

Who of the following was the conqueror of the Inca Empire?

backward and isolated when compared with Chinese and Islamic societies

by 1400, western European society was

of the invention of the printing press.

After the 1430s information was able to circulate more freely in Europe than anywhere else in the world because

The Asian nations of China, India, and Japan became the wealthiest and most powerful countries in the world.

All except which of the following were negative results of the exploration and discovery era?

oranges.

All of the following were food crops grown in the Americas during the late Stone Age (Neolithic) except

cereal.

Amaranth was a type of

Navajo.

Amerind was the forerunner of all of the following languages except

Arab

As of 1400, _____ mariners were the world's best.

were Stone Age cultures.

Before the arrival of the Europeans, the Indian societies of the Americas

two-thirds

Before the nineteenth century, about _____ of the people who sailed across the Atlantic were slaves.

100

By 1300, more than _____ million people were living in Europe.

30

By the mid-1600s, there were ______ Spanish missions in Florida containing about 26,000 concerted Indians.

Spain.

By the mid-sixteenth century, the most powerful nation in Europe was

the first global economic system was created by the union of Spain and Portugal.

During the reign of Philip II,

Vasco da Gama

Each of the following could be referred to as a conquistador except

Portugal.

Europe's pioneer in the area of exploration was

14,000 years ago.

Human habitation of the Americas began appoximately

12,000

Humans definitely were living in western Alaska about ______ years ago.

spanish

In 1580, the _____ Empire was the greatest empire the world had ever known.

it was self-contained system that needed little from the rest of the world.

In spite of being the most complex culture in the world, China did not expand outward because

black death

In the fourteenth century an outbreak of the _____ wiped out one third of Europe's population.

90 percent.

In the period 1530 to 1630, the population of Mexico and Peru decreased by approximately

steel

More than any other technological advantage, _____ made European military conquest possible.

subhuman, soulless devil worshippers.

Most European Christians viewed the Indians as

derived from the Amerind language.

Most of the native languages of North and South America were