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

IDENTIFICATIONS -Marco Polo

By the mid-sixteenth century, the most powerful nation in Europe was

One factor that distinguished the Americas from Eurasia in the pre-Columbian era is that

IDENTIFICATIONS -Beringia

Amerind was the forerunner of all of the following languages except

The world's largest and grandest city in the 1200s was in ____________________.

The ____________________ helped the Spanish conquer the Aztecs.

Spanish conquistadores led armies of around 5,000 men.

The mound builders and the Anasazi were similar in that both

By 1300, more than ____________________ million people were living in Europe.

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

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

The Indians of the Pacific northwest divided tasks along gender lines.

The sixteenth century Catholic missions in North America

In the fourteenth century an outbreak of the ____________________ wiped out one third of Europe's population.

Prior to Columbus's voyages Spain had conquered

The early civilizations of America were basically ____ age cultures.

The Americas were first settled by

Which of the following is true of the Atlantic slave trade in the late fifteenth century and thereafter?

Which of the following was true of serfdom?