Exam 1: Mapping Global Frontiers

Who authorized Cortés to attack Native Americans and claim their land?

What happened to people in smaller farming and herding societies of western and central Africa when they were conquered by expanding kingdoms?

In what part of the Americas did the Arawak and Taino tribes live when the Spanish explorers arrived in the sixteenth century?

Starting in the sixteenth century, Europeans formed an image of Africa based on captives from which region of the continent?

Where was Beringia, the land bridge that enabled the settlement of the Americas between 16,000 and 14,000 b.c.e.?

In their 1507 map and globe entitled Universalis Cosmographia, Martin Waldseemüller and Mathias Ringmann had a body of land between the African and Asian continents estimating the geography of what we know know to be

What European power claimed rights to the Philippine Islands?

What materials did the Mayans use to protect themselves from Spanish invaders in the 1500s?

What crop enabled the expansion of the Hopewell people, an advanced Native American culture that developed around the Mississippi River?

What was the key to Incan survival in the Andes Mountains along the Pacific coast?

As slaves to Mexica merchants, what kind of work did many young Indian women spend their time doing?

When he set out to sail across the Atlantic on his "Enterprise of the Indies," what was Columbus's chief occupation?

For whom was the territory of Virginia named?

Why did the French first abandon the settlement of Quebec?

Weak monarchies and religious and political strife in both France and England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to which country's domination of the Americas?

Which Spanish explorer achieved a reputation for brutality and gained his wealth by trading in Indian slaves and looting native treasures?

What region had the most extensive network of slave-trading centers in the medieval period?

What is the name historians have given to the transfer of flora, fauna, and disease from Europe to the Americas that resulted in the deaths of millions of native people?

How did Tlaxcalan artists portray Malintzin?

The first Europeans to discover lands in the western Atlantic were