Exam 1: When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe

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

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

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

Examine Mayan society at its peak from the sixth to the tenth centuries.

The leader of the Aztecs at the time of their defeat in 1519 was

Vasco da Gama was the first European to reach India via an eastward water route.

Describe the most significant plant, animal, and bacterial aspects of the exchanges between Europe and the Americas.

Describe European society in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

By ____________________, the Pueblo, Apache, and Navajo Indians of New Mexico had accepted baptism.

The Portuguese mariner whose fleet sailed around the world in the early 1500s was ____________________.

Under slavery as it existed in Africa

The ____________________ colonized West Africa from Cape Blanco to Angola in the fifteenth century.

The Spanish kingdom of ____________________ colonized the Canary Islands during the fifteenth century.

Beginning in the fifteenth century, the expansion of European commerce would lead to the enslavement of millions of Africans.

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

The greatest loss of life among the Indian population came from warfare with the European invaders.

The sixteenth century Catholic missions in North America

Aside from Marco Polo, the Chinese had no contact whatsoever with the rest of the world.

The leader of the Norsemen who settled in Greenland was

During the reign of Philip II,