Deck 1: Worlds Apart

Question 1

Africans primarily came to early European settlements in America:

A) voluntarily.
B) to find employment.
C) as slaves.
D) looking for trading partners.

Answer 1

as slaves.

Question 2

In 1492, how many people lived on the continents of North and South America?

A) 50 million
B) 70 million
C) 80 million
D) 100 million

Answer 2

70 million

Question 3

From where did the earliest humans to visit North America probably come?

A) Central Siberia
B) the Middle East
C) Mesopotamia
D) Greece

Answer 3

Central Siberia

Question 4

In what part of North America did farming originate?

A) Pacific Northwest
B) Arctic
C) Great Basin
D) Central Mexico

Question 5

Which crop was NOT among those grown in America 5,000 years ago?

A) maize
B) pumpkins
C) squash
D) oranges

Question 6

What allowed early Americans to start permanent villages?

A) better building techniques
B) trade
C) farming
D) better hunting practices

Question 7

Which was a great Mexican city from the first through eighth centuries C.E.?

A) Laredo
B) Mexico City
C) Teotihuacán
D) Rio Grande

Question 8

Which group dominated Mexico from 900 to 1100 C.E.?

A) the Aztecs
B) the Toltecs
C) the Mayans
D) the Olmecs

Question 9

Ancestral Puebloan peoples are also called:

A) Anasazi.
B) Apache.
C) Yahi.
D) Sioux.

Question 10

Kivas were special rooms used for:

A) banquets.
B) schools.
C) religious ceremonial centers.
D) royal chambers.

Question 11

This culture is an example of a "mound-building" society.

A) Adena-Hopewell
B) the Cree
C) Toltecs
D) Cherokee

Question 12

This urban center dominated the Mississippi Valley.

A) New Orleans
B) Cahokia
C) Adena-Hopewell
D) St. Louis

Question 13

Which of the following tribes is a descendant of the ancestral Puebloan peoples?

A) Navajo
B) Hopi
C) Apache
D) Carib

Question 14

The overall state of relations among Native American groups in 1500 can best be described as:

A) isolationist.
B) peaceful.
C) unstable.
D) cooperative.

Question 15

Most African immigrants to the Americas came from:

A) West Africa.
B) East Africa.
C) North Africa.
D) South Africa.

Question 16

Which of these was a great city of West Africa?

A) Timbuktu
B) Songhai
C) Ghana
D) Mali

Question 17

Which religion took root in West Africa in the eleventh century?

A) Christianity
B) Buddhism
C) Islam
D) ancestor worship

Question 18

West Africans preserved their religious faith primarily through:

A) written sources.
B) the construction of beautiful churches.
C) song.
D) oral tradition.

Question 19

In the fourteenth century, Europeans were most familiar with the _________ part of Africa.

A) southern
B) western
C) northern
D) eastern

Question 20

The majority of African slaves lost their freedom:

A) as punishment for crimes.
B) because of debts.
C) through trickery.
D) by being captured in war.

Question 21

Slave status in Africa was:

A) generally permanent.
B) transferred from parent to child.
C) not necessarily permanent.
D) voluntary.

Question 22

The Renaissance originated in the city-states of:

A) Italy.
B) Portugal.
C) Greece.
D) Spain.

Question 23

In the tenth century, this portion of Europe was controlled by Muslims.

A) Spain
B) Italy
C) Scandinavia
D) France

Question 24

The highest figure in the Catholic Church is the:

A) bishop.
B) king.
C) cardinal.
D) pope.

Question 25

According to Luther, salvation is the result of:

A) good works.
B) charitable donations.
C) adherence to the pope's teachings.
D) faith.

Question 26

Calvin emphasized the doctrine of:

A) salvation through faith.
B) salvation through works.
C) predestination.
D) apostolic succession.

Question 27

The "Counter-Reformation" was meant to:

A) strengthen the Catholic Church.
B) weaken the Catholic Church.
C) replace the pope.
D) counteract the spread of Islam.

Question 28

Of the following events, which one most threatened trade between Europe and Asia?

A) the Hundred Years' War
B) the fall of Constantinople to the Turks
C) the reconquista
D) the proclamation of the doctrine of predestination

Question 29

Who opened a sea route from Europe to India?

A) Dias
B) Columbus
C) da Gama
D) Drake

Question 30

Of the following countries/regions, which was least involved in voyages of discovery?

A) Portugal
B) France
C) England
D) Italy

Question 31

Columbus was born in:

A) Venice.
B) Rome.
C) Pisa.
D) Genoa.

Question 32

In his plans to reach India, Columbus mistakenly calculated:

A) wind speeds in the Atlantic.
B) the proper route.
C) the earth's circumference.
D) weather forecasts.

Question 33

Columbus first reached this place in America:

A) the Bahamas
B) Puerto Rico
C) Cuba
D) Florida

Question 34

Conquistadors came from:

A) Portugal.
B) West Africa.
C) Spain.
D) Italy.

Question 35

The conquistadors were primarily interested in:

A) founding settlements.
B) fighting Muslims.
C) spreading Christianity.
D) finding gold.

Question 36

Spanish conquest first occurred in:

A) the Caribbean.
B) Mexico.
C) Central America.
D) South America.

Question 37

Cortés found allies against the Aztecs among:

A) Indians who lived under Aztec rule.
B) slaves looking to win their freedom.
C) the Mayans.
D) European settlers.

Question 38

Which disease devastated the Aztec population?

A) smallpox
B) typhoid
C) malaria
D) Dutch elm disease

Question 39

The Council of the Indies administered whose empire?

A) Portugal's
B) Italy's
C) France's
D) Spain's

Question 40

Cabeza de Vaca eventually reached Mexico after an eight-year trek that began in

A) California.
B) Peru.
C) Florida.
D) Arizona.

Question 41

Who wrote In Defense of the Indians?

A) Coronado
B) Las Casas
C) Luther
D) Calvin

Question 42

What has been dubbed "the Columbian exchange"?

A) the spread of Christianity among the Indians
B) the spread of trade throughout America
C) the transfer of gold from America to Europe
D) the spread of European diseases to America

Question 43

Who introduced horses to America?

A) de Soto
B) Coronado
C) de Vaca
D) Columbus

Question 44

Which disease was not exported from Europe to America?

A) syphilis
B) smallpox
C) typhus
D) plague

Question 45

Which of the following was NOT a transplant from the Old World to the New World?

A) maize
B) horses
C) wheat
D) smallpox

Question 46

Cartier explored the St. Lawrence River in order to:

A) find a water route to Asia.
B) find gold.
C) establish the fur trade.
D) spread Christianity throughout Canada.

Question 47

The first French people to attempt to settle in Canada were:

A) fur traders.
B) religious zealots.
C) convicts.
D) farmers.

Question 48

Which British monarch formed the Church of England separate from the Catholic Church?

A) Mary, Queen of Scots
B) Elizabeth I
C) Henry VIII
D) Victoria

Question 49

Queen Mary earned the nickname "Bloody Mary" for her persecution of:

A) the Irish.
B) Catholics.
C) Protestants.
D) Moors.

Question 50

England's first colonization target under King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth was:

A) France.
B) North Africa.
C) Ireland.
D) Cuba.

Question 51

Queen Elizabeth sent Frobisher in search of:

A) gold.
B) trading partners.
C) the Northwest Passage.
D) cheap Indian labor.

Question 52

Who claimed Newfoundland for England?

A) Gilbert
B) Raleigh
C) Frobisher
D) Cartier

Question 53

Where did Raleigh attempt to found a colony in 1585?

A) Newfoundland
B) Roanoke Island
C) Plymouth
D) St. Augustine

Question 54

Who was the first English child born in America?

A) Elizabeth Free
B) Carolina Free
C) Anne Roanoke
D) Virginia Dare

Question 55

Gilbert and others believed there was an English population:

A) deficit.
B) equilibrium.
C) surplus.
D) none of these answers

Question 56

What word did White discover on a post when he returned to the Roanoke settlement?

A) CHESAPEAKE
B) POWHATAN
C) CROATOAN
D) HAKLUYT

Question 57

Who wrote the "Discourse on the Western Planting"?

A) Raleigh
B) Hakluyt
C) Gilbert
D) Hawkins

Question 58

Hakluyt argued that the Indians, once civilized, would be:

A) good slaves.
B) good Christians.
C) powerful allies.
D) purchasers of English goods.

Question 59

What did Hakluyt consider "sincere religion"?

A) Protestant Christianity
B) Greek Orthodoxy
C) Catholicism
D) Gnosticism

Question 60

The Spanish fleet that attacked England in the late 1500s was called the Spanish:

A) Armada.
B) Flotilla.
C) Sorte.
D) Brigade.

Question 61

What was the "Lost Colony"?

A) Croatoan
B) Roanoke
C) St. Augustine
D) Newfoundland

Question 62

When did Islam spread in West Africa?

A) 500 C.E.
B) 1200 C.E.
C) 1000 C.E.
D) 1400 C.E.

Question 63

What period marks the European Renaissance?

A) 800-1400
B) 1400-1600
C) 1700-1800
D) 1100-1300

Question 64

When did the Protestant Reformation begin in Germany?

A) 1417
B) 1517
C) 1617
D) 1667

Question 65

How did England's experience with the Irish influence its treatment of Indians?

Question 66

How did England's difficulties with the Spanish affect its ability to establish a colony in the New World?

Question 67

What were Columbus's goals when he began his expedition? Did he succeed in reaching them?

Question 68

What factors contributed to the defeat of the Aztecs by Cortés?

Question 69

Compare and contrast slavery in Africa and in America.

Question 70

What role did religion play in the way Europeans treated Indians and slaves?

Question 71

Analyze the differing interests each of the European powers had in the New World.

Question 72

Which was a stronger force in New World colonization, economics or religion? Support your answer with specific examples.

Question 73

Why were the events of the Renaissance important in setting the stage for New World exploration?

Question 74

How did domestic European conflicts affect the actions of individual countries toward American exploration and settlement?