The first European explorers reached the region that would become the Americas:
(A) More than 300 years ago
(B) About 400 years ago
(C) More than 500 years ago
(D) At least 600 years ago
(E) More than 600 years ago
What proof has led researchers to conclude that the earth once contained a single continent?
(A) There are identical species of fish in freshwater lakes across the globe.
(B) There are similar types of mountain ranges around the world.
(C) All the areas that are now separate regions were similarly impacted by the glaciers 10 million years ago.
(D) Ethnic groups in one part of the world can trace their ancestry to people in completely different countries.
(E) There are similar forms of vegetation in many nations.
What is the dominant theory about how the first people arrived in what we now call North America?
(A) Native peoples long existed here.
(B) They traveled in rafts and simple boats.
(C) They walked as far as they could, then sailed or swam the rest of the way.
(D) They walked across a land bridge from Eurasia to North America.
(E) The first North Americans were Vikings who stayed.
The Incans (Peru), Mayans (Central America), and Aztecs (Mexico) owe the development of their sophisticated early civilizations to:
(A) The blessings of their many gods.
(B) Agriculture, particularly the cultivation of corn or maize.
(C) Early mathematics and mathematician
(D) Advanced early architecture
(E) Political systems based on nation-states
What was three-sister farming?
(A) Small women-run farms that were common in some Native American cultures
(B) An early farming cooperative in which three different tribal groups plane and harvested crops together
(C) An agricultural method in which corn, beans, and squash were grown together
(D) An effort originating in the southwest in 2000 c.e. to develop crops that would yield a more nutritious diet
(E) The Iroquois inheritance system in which property and possessions passed from one generation to the next through the matrilineal (Or mother's) line
Native Americans did NOT make a major imprint on the land they used for all of the following reasons EXCEPT they:
(A) Feared changing it would impact their survival
(B) lacked the means to dramatically manipulate the land
(C) were spread in small groups across the continent
(D) revered nature and endowed it with spiritual properties
(E) had no desire to alter the landscape
Which of these reasons did NOT drive the Europeans exploration that led to "Discovery" of the New World?
(A) The desire to expand their empires and power
(B) The quest for a cheaper route to the East
(C) Spreading Christianity
(D) Finding an alternate trade source for spices, sugar. and other expensive Eastern goods
(E) Population surges and land shortages
The plantation system was first developed:
(A) in the American southern colonies
(B) by Portuguese explorers in West Africa.
(C) By various tribal societies in America
(D) in the Chesapeake colonies
(E) by Native Americans
All of the following events in the fifteenth century set the stage for the dramatic and unexpected discovery of the New World EXCEPT:
(A) increasingly successful long-distance voyages by explorers
(B) Spain's rising prominence, wealth, and power
(C) competition between European nations to colonize new land
(D) wars between rival European countries
(E) greater use of the compass
What was the Columbian exchange?
(A) Columbus agreement with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
(B) The diseases the Europeans brought to the Americas
(C) A trade network Columbus established with Native Americans
(D) The development of sugar plantations in the Caribbean for the European Market.
(E) The transfer of plants, animals, culture, and disease that occurred after Columbus's voyage
In the Treaty of Tordesillas, Spain:
(A) declared all New World territories as its own
(B) banned conquered Muslims from returning to its territories
(C) divided up the so-called New World with Portugal
(D) agreed not to enter the slave trade
(E) granted to Portugal control of West African silver mines
Some scholars see the origins of modern capitalism in New World discoveries of precious metals for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that:
(A) they decreased the cost of consumer goods dramatically
(B) they stimulated surplus money supplies
(C) they laid the foundation for the development of the banking system
(D) they stimulated the spread of commerce and manufacturing
(E) they financed much of the international trade with Asia
Spanish conquistadors, travelling to the New World hoped to gain all of the following EXCEPT:
(A) Noble or royal titles
(B) God's favor
(C) Gold
(D) A fresh start
(E) The change to organize an army
