Exam 1: When Old Worlds Collide: Encounters in the Atlantic World to 1600

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Marco Polo

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The_____________ was a type of spear point that originated in the New Mexico-Texas area, spread rapidly across the Americas, and contributed to the elimination of large game animals.

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Describe European society in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

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The world's largest earthen work was constructed by the Mississippian mound building people at_____________.

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Portuguese mariners borrowed heavily from Arab ship designs and used Arab navigational tools.

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conquistadores

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

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The Spanish kingdom of_____________ sent its first settlers to the Canary Islands just after 1400.

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The Chinese developed all of the following except

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

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What explains the European desire for exploration and settlement in the fifteenth century?

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The center of the Portuguese empire in Asia was

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

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Examine the variety of Native American societies in the period before European conquest.

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The Indian peoples of the Americas had only domesticated one animal species, the dog, before the arrival of the Europeans.

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Generally, the Spanish were very generous when dealing with Native American civilizations.

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Beringia

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The crusades influenced European expansion by

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The primary crop of the first American farmers in Peru, Mexico, and the southwestern United States was_____________.

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Women in semisedentary Indian societies made crucial contributions to farming.

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