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Unit 1 N.A. Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the cone-shaped shelters that many plains people used called? | teepees |
| What was the first Greek city state to establish a democracy? | Athens |
| What were the long series of wars between European Christians and Southwest Asian Muslims known as? | Crusades |
| What was the era in Europe where there was a rebirth in the interest of learning and the arts? | Renaissance |
| Who developed the printing press that used moveable type and allowed entire pages to be printed at once? | Johannes Gutenberg |
| Who was the European trader that traveled along the Silk Road to China and brought back tales of spices, coal, and paper money? | Marco Polo |
| What was a business formed by a group of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses? | joint-stock company |
| What two tribes of the Southwest area of North America were nomadic and supported themselves by raiding villages? | Apache and Navajo |
| True or False: Most Native American groups did not believe land could be bought, sold, or owned by individuals. | True |
| What was the disease that spread across Europe and killed an estimated 25 million people in the Middle Ages? | The black death |
| What Europeans were the first group to make contact with North Americans and start colonizing there? | Spanish |
| What explorer's expedition was the first to navigate all the way around the world? | Ferdinand Magellan |
| Who financed Christopher Columbus' voyage to the Americas? | King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella |
| What is the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa known as? | Columbian Exchange |
| Who was the Spanish Conquistador that conquered the Aztec Empire? | Hernan Cortes |
| What Spanish Conquistador conquered the Incan Empire? | Francisco Pizzaro |
| What European is believed to be the first to discover the Pacific Ocean? | Vasco Nunez de Balboa |
| Which European explorer was the first to believe the Americas were not Asia, but a “New World”? | Amerigo Vespucci |
| Who was the German priest that started the Protestant Reformation? | Martin Luther |
| Who was the French explorer that sailed into the St. Lawrence River all the way to modern day Montreal and claimed that territory for France? | Jacques Cartier |
| Which European group had the most peaceful and respectful relationship with Native Americans in the claimed lands? | French |
| Who was the first explorer to receive a charter from England to set up a colony and establish a presence in the New World? | Walter Raleigh |
| What country’s navy defeated the Spanish Armada, clearing the way for other European nations to colonize the Americas? | England |
| Migration | The movement of people from one region to another. |
| Culture | The common values and traditions of a society, such as language, government, etc. |
| Environment | The climate and landscape that surrounds living things. |
| Pueblo | Above-ground houses made of adobe that were built by Native Americans in the southwest. |
| Totems | Images of ancestors or animal spirits; carved onto tall, wooden poles by Native Americans. |
| Matrilineal | Related to ancestry traced through the mother’s line. |
| Reason | Clear and ordered thinking |
| Democracy | A government in which people rule themselves. |
| Hunter-gatherers | A person who kills animals and takes in wild plants to provide for their needs. |
| Circumnavigate | To travel all the way around the globe. |
| Conquistadors | A Spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain |
| Encomienda System | A system in Spanish America that gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or to demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and converting them to Christianity. |
| Protestant Reformation | A 16th-century movement aimed at reforming the Catholic Church, which ultimately led to the creation of Protestant churches. |
| Charter | An official document that gives a person the right to start a colony |
| Spanish Armada | A large Spanish fleet defeated by England |
| Northwest Passage | A non-existent path through North America that early explorers searched for that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. |
| Essay:. What were the reasons why some Native American cultures became extinct? Detail your answers. (Minimum of 2- 3 sentences) R/A: The reasons why some Native American cultures became extinct is because … |
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