Exam 1: When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, conquest, catastrophe

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

Christopher Columbus believed he had a role to play in bringing on the Millennium.

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

Beginning in the fifteenth century,the expansion of European commerce would lead to the enslavement of millions of Africans.

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.

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

The Black Death reduced Europe's population by

In 1580,the ____________________ Empire was the greatest empire the world had ever known.

The most likely reason for European success in conquering the American Indian population is

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

Amaranth was a type of

IDENTIFICATIONS -Royal Orders for New Discoveries

IDENTIFICATIONS -Christopher Columbus

Under slavery as it existed in Africa

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.

The ____________________ colonized West Africa from Cape Blanco to Angola in the fifteenth century.

The Aztec capital,____________________,was more populated than any western European city.

In Asia and Africa,the rise of farming,i.e. ,planting and harvesting crops,was closely linked to the domestication of animals.

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

Women in semisedentary Indian societies did most of the farming.