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

Explain the victory of Hernán Cortés over the large and powerful Aztec Empire.

In the Americas as in Africa, the rise of farming was closely linked to the domestication of animals.

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

Many Mesoamerican artifacts have been found in the southeastern United States.

____________________ was the Inca capital.

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

Describe European society in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

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

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

Human habitation of the Americas began approximately

The crusades influenced European expansion by

Beringia proved a hospitable place for plant and animal life.

The leader of the Norsemen who settled in Greenland was

Describe the origin and expansion of the European slave trade.

The leading practitioners of human sacrifice in the Americas were the

The early Native American civilization to leave detailed written records of their activities were the

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

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

Most of the native languages of North and South America were

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