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Quiz sobre Civilisation , criado por Sandra S em 04-10-2016.
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Resumo de Recurso

Questão 1

Questão
What is a space?
Responda
  • An area with unlimited boundaries.
  • A domesticated limited place.
  • An area owned by an entity

Questão 2

Questão
What is a place?
Responda
  • An area with unlimited boundaries.
  • An area owned by an entity
  • A domesticated limited place

Questão 3

Questão
What is a territory?
Responda
  • An area owned by an entity
  • An area with unlimited boundaries.
  • A domesticated limited place.

Questão 4

Questão
Yi-Fu Tuan said that '[blank_start]place[blank_end] is security, [blank_start]space[blank_end] is freedom'
Responda
  • place
  • space

Questão 5

Questão
Smith wrote [blank_start]Virgin Land[blank_end] in order to see why Western America was considered as a [blank_start]myth[blank_end] and a [blank_start]symbol[blank_end].
Responda
  • Virgin Land
  • myth
  • symbol

Questão 6

Questão
[blank_start]Smith[blank_end] talks about the common idea that the west is [blank_start]wild[blank_end] and how the [blank_start]expansion[blank_end] happened.
Responda
  • wild
  • expansion
  • Smith

Questão 7

Questão
Before the [blank_start]independance[blank_end], [blank_start]British[blank_end] were more interested by the [blank_start]east[blank_end]. They saw themselves as the nation which dominates the [blank_start]sea[blank_end], and so a supreme [blank_start]maritime power[blank_end].
Responda
  • independance
  • British
  • east
  • sea
  • maritime power

Questão 8

Questão
What is agrarianism ?
Responda
  • A group of thinkers in France.
  • A group of thinkers in the United States.
  • A group arguing that land is essential.
  • A group arguing that sea power is essential

Questão 9

Questão
[blank_start]Agrarianism[blank_end] thinks that land is a source of [blank_start]value[blank_end] and [blank_start]worth[blank_end]. [blank_start]Political[blank_end] and [blank_start]geographical[blank_end] interest: to [blank_start]attract[blank_end] people to have [blank_start]high wages[blank_end].
Responda
  • Agrarianism
  • value
  • worth
  • Political
  • geographical
  • attract
  • high wages

Questão 10

Questão
For the U.S to be glorious, they have to take control on:
Responda
  • The sea and the land
  • The sea
  • The land

Questão 11

Questão
The American West is a [blank_start]myth[blank_end] because everyone has [blank_start]his own vision[blank_end] of it.
Responda
  • myth
  • his own vision

Questão 12

Questão
What is a myth ?
Responda
  • For something true
  • For something untrue

Questão 13

Questão
What is a symbol ?
Responda
  • An image representing something
  • Something recurrent

Questão 14

Questão
What is/are the symbol(s) of the West?
Responda
  • Freedom
  • Individualism
  • Independance
  • Fear

Questão 15

Questão
The west is called the [blank_start]Virgin Land[blank_end]. It is seen as a [blank_start]new start[blank_end] but the American got rid of the [blank_start]Natives[blank_end] who were there.
Responda
  • Virgin Land
  • new start
  • Natives

Questão 16

Questão
The term free land is borrowed from [blank_start]Turner[blank_end].
Responda
  • Turner

Questão 17

Questão
There are always [blank_start]2[blank_end] versions of history. Here it is that the west was a [blank_start]new beginning[blank_end] but also that it [blank_start]killed indians[blank_end].
Responda
  • 2
  • new beginning
  • killed indians

Questão 18

Questão
The expansion of the U.S begins [blank_start]in the territory[blank_end] and continues [blank_start]outside the borders[blank_end].
Responda
  • in the territory
  • outside the borders

Questão 19

Questão
Nowadays the Indian territory is composed of [blank_start]reservations[blank_end].
Responda
  • reservations

Questão 20

Questão
The pride of the [blank_start]American[blank_end] is seen as a great loss for the [blank_start]Indians[blank_end].
Responda
  • American
  • Indians

Questão 21

Questão
Lewis and Clark was to make [blank_start]scientific discoveries[blank_end], to [blank_start]map[blank_end] the west, to make [blank_start]fur trade[blank_end], [blank_start]economic and political[blank_end], to obtain the right to navigate on the [blank_start]Mississipi river[blank_end].
Responda
  • scientific discoveries
  • map
  • fur trade
  • economic and political
  • Mississipi river

Questão 22

Questão
Jefferson wanted to compete the [blank_start]British[blank_end] near the [blank_start]Canadian[blank_end] borders
Responda
  • British
  • Canadian

Questão 23

Questão
There were rivalries in the U.S between the [blank_start]French[blank_end], the [blank_start]British[blank_end], the [blank_start]Spanish[blank_end]...
Responda
  • French
  • British
  • Spanish

Questão 24

Questão
In his letter, Jefferson says he wants to [blank_start]double[blank_end] the territory by buying [blank_start]Florida[blank_end] to Spain or [blank_start]exchanging[blank_end] it with [blank_start]Lousiana[blank_end].
Responda
  • Florida
  • exchanging
  • Lousiana
  • double

Questão 25

Questão
[blank_start]Mississipi[blank_end] is important because it [blank_start]connects[blank_end] different [blank_start]states[blank_end] and for the [blank_start]importation[blank_end] of [blank_start]goods[blank_end] from the [blank_start]North[blank_end] to the [blank_start]South[blank_end].
Responda
  • Mississipi
  • connects
  • states
  • importation
  • goods
  • North
  • South

Questão 26

Questão
[blank_start]Jefferson[blank_end] wanted the U.S to be inhabited by [blank_start]euro-american[blank_end] but not [blank_start]spaniards[blank_end].
Responda
  • euro-american
  • spaniards
  • Jefferson

Questão 27

Questão
Quand Lewis et Clark sont morts, on n'a paq publié leurs journaux. Ils ont été publiés en [blank_start]1893[blank_end].
Responda
  • 1893

Questão 28

Questão
A website of the Indian movement Ponca asks the question : should we [blank_start]celebrate[blank_end] Lewis and Clark or should we [blank_start]stop[blank_end] them ?
Responda
  • celebrate
  • stop

Questão 29

Questão
Lewis and Clark...
Responda
  • Analyse the geography
  • Analyse the fauna and the flora
  • Analyse the Indian routes
  • Analyse the indian individualism

Questão 30

Questão
[blank_start]Photographers[blank_end] often accompanied [blank_start]exploratory[blank_end] surveys to take [blank_start]documentation[blank_end] of the places visited.
Responda
  • Photographers
  • exploratory
  • documentation

Questão 31

Questão
The issue was not [blank_start]how to enlarge the country[blank_end], but how we can exploit it for [blank_start]industry[blank_end] or [blank_start]economy[blank_end].
Responda
  • how to enlarge the country
  • industry
  • economy

Questão 32

Questão
Photographers perpetuate a tradition already present in [blank_start]paintings[blank_end]: to show the [blank_start]beauty[blank_end] witht the idea of [blank_start]vastness[blank_end] and [blank_start]unspoiled nature[blank_end], but also the [blank_start]fear[blank_end] of the Wild west.
Responda
  • beauty
  • vastness
  • unspoiled nature
  • fear
  • paintings

Questão 33

Questão
[blank_start]Trachtenberg[blank_end] tells us there is a problem in [blank_start]understanding[blank_end] photos because they have a [blank_start]social[blank_end] function.
Responda
  • Trachtenberg
  • understanding
  • social

Questão 34

Questão
History is [blank_start]dynamic[blank_end]: it is complex and evolves according to [blank_start]time[blank_end] and [blank_start]people[blank_end].
Responda
  • dynamic
  • time
  • people

Questão 35

Questão
Caution with [blank_start]anachronism[blank_end]: you cannot look at a period with your eyes of nowadays.
Responda
  • anachronism

Questão 36

Questão
In [blank_start]1807-1930[blank_end], [blank_start]nature[blank_end] was not the main subject of photography anymore. They wanted to photograph [blank_start]people[blank_end].
Responda
  • 1807-1930
  • nature
  • people

Questão 37

Questão
[blank_start]Curtis[blank_end] represents indians [blank_start]at home[blank_end], in [blank_start]staged[blank_end] photographs.
Responda
  • Curtis
  • at home
  • staged

Questão 38

Questão
In [blank_start]1980[blank_end], after a massacre, [blank_start]Curtis[blank_end] removes objects of modern life to represent the [blank_start]past[blank_end] of the indians.
Responda
  • 1980
  • Curtis
  • past

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