A scholarly term for the history of humans in America during a period of about 5,000 years beginning around 8000 B.C.?
Archaic Period
A catastrophioc epidemic of the bubonic plague that began in Constantinople in 1347 and decimated Europe, killing more than a third of the people of the continent and deblitating its already limited economy?
Black Death
A major city near present day St. Louis that, at its peack in AD 1200 had a population of about 10,000 and contained a great complex of large earthen mounds?
Cahokia
Famed "discoverer" of America, supported by Queen Isabella of Spain?
Christopher Columbus
Group named for a town in New Mexico where archaeologists first discovered evidence of their tools and weapons in the 1930s?
Clovis People
Spanish for "conquerors" in the New World?
Conquistadores
Adventures fur traders and trappers?
Coureurs De Bois
At the time of the Spanish conquest, the economies of most of the Native Americans in South and Central America and Mexico were based on?
Agriculture
The eastern third of what is now the United States was inhabited by the
Wooland Indians
Europe during the Middle Ages?
was too divided and decentralized to inspire great ventures
Through a combination of daring, brutality, and greed, the conquistadors?
made possible the creation of a Spanish empire in America
Despite the Indians public conversion to Catholicism?
most natives continued to practice their own religious rituals
In the sixteenth century, the market for slaves grew dramatically as a result of?
the rising European demand for sugar cane
The large Indian trading center in the Mississippi River Valley near present-day St. Louis was Cahokia? T/F
True
The Iroquois Confederation consisted of tribes in the southernmost region of the eastern seaboard? T/F
False
New Mexico became one of the most important provinces in Spanish America? T/F
False
As in many Indian societies in America, African families tended to be matrilineal: they traced their heredity through and inherited property from their fathers? T/F
False
The most important Native American crop brought back by the Europeans was squash? T/F
False
Spaniards seldom intermarried with the Native Americans? T/F
False
Which of the following Mesoamerican civilizations developed complex language and numerical systems and also established trade routes across the Americas?
Maya
Which European nation was the first to encounter the New World?
Spain
Which feature of Spanish American colonial society contrasted most with North American English colonial settlements?
Interethnic marriage
In the sixteenth century, cultivation of which crop led to increased demand for African slaves by Europeans?
Sugarcane
Before the advent of the Atlantic slave trade, what subsistence lifestyle did most sub-Saharan Africans engage in?
sedentary farming
African societies allotted political power according to which of the following criteria?
