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Three Worlds Meet
1900 & Prior U.S. History - Davis - SVHS - Three Worlds Meet
Question | Answer |
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where goods from the Americas were taken to Europe as goods from there were brought back to the Americas | Columbian Exchange |
huge farm where only one crop is grown | plantation |
when parent country establishes settlements in different lands | colonization |
when church splits into Catholicism and Protestantism | Reformation |
Arabic faith founded by Muhammad | Islam |
close family ties | kinship |
house is made up of immediately family members such as mom, dad, siblings | nuclear family |
holy war in which Christians attempt to regain Jerusalem | Crusades |
the job you do according to who you are in Native American cultures | division of labor |
wandering around following the food supply | nomadic |
How did the first Americans get to America? | walked across the Beringia Land Bridge |
What is made possible by the development of Agriculture? | people rmain in one place, have more time for other skills, and larger societies emerge |
What three worlds or cultures meet in this chapter? | Native Americans, West Africans, & Europeans |
What was the purpose of mounds built by Native Americans? | as burial sites |
What brought different tribes of North America in direct contact with one another? | trade |
How did Native Americans the land? | as a source of life not to be sold |
What was the name of the trade route that crossed Northern Africa? | the Sahara Highway |
Who started the European trade of West African slaves? | Portuguese |
Who controls the family in the West African culture? | oldest living relative |
What describes slavery as it already existed in West Africa? | you could escape slavery by marriage or adoption, and you were not born into it |
How was European society organized by rank? | monarchs & nobles at the top, artisans & merchants in the middle, and peasants at the bottom |
What happened to religion in Europe as a result of the Reformation? | the church was divided into Catholicism and Protestantism |
which European country took the lead in new sailing technology and exploration? | the Portuguese |
Whose voyages set off a chain of events that bring together the peoples of Europe, Africa, and the Americas. | Christopher Columbus |
What was Columbus' attitude towards the Native Americans that he encountered in the Carribean? | one of a simple people that with limited man power and effort could be controlled quite easily |
What happened that createda a demand for West African slaves? | the Native Americans were dying quickly due to diseases introduced by the Europeans |
What diseases were resoponsible for the death of so many Native Americans? | mumps, measles, chicken pox, and small pox |