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

Examine the reasons why Portugal rose to the forefront during the early period of European exploration.

____________________ was the eleventh-century Norse explorer who established Vinland, the first European colony in North America.

The world's most complex culture in the 1200s was in ____________________.

The early civilizations of America were basically ____ age cultures.

Describe the successes and failures of Christopher Columbus's voyages at the end of the fifteenth century.

The ____________________ Empire was the largest non-literate empire in history.

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

In 1487, Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias reached the Cape of Good Hope, but his crew forced him to turn back.

____________________ entered the sixteenth century as Europe's most fiercely Catholic society.

The Toltecs controlled the Valley of Mexico for three centuries.

In 1519, when Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexico, the Indian populations was approximately 15 million; however, by the 1620s the population declined to

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

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

Humans did not actually live on Beringia; it was used only as a means of travel between Siberia and Alaska.

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

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

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

The European nation that was the pioneer in the area of exploration was

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

IDENTIFICATIONS -Vinland