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

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

The sixteenth century Catholic missions in North America

Women in semisedentary Indian societies made crucial contributions to farming.

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

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

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

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

The most sophisticated civilization in the world at the time of European exploration was in China.

Johann Gutenberg invented paper and block printing.

Most Native American Indian populations were "hunters and gatherers."

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

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

The center of the Portuguese empire in Asia was

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

For the Western Hemisphere as a whole, any given region probably lost at least 90 percent of its population within a year of sustained contact with Europeans.

In spite of being the most complex culture in the world, China did not expand outward because

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

Unlike Spain, Portugal refused to enslave Africans.

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

The Chinese developed all of the following except