Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
30 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
As a result of the successful domestication of maize (corn), beans, and squash, some Native Americans
|
gained greater control over their environments.
|
|
|
In what is now Mexico, the Aztecs, Toltecs, and Mayas
|
developed advanced cultures prior to European contact.
|
|
|
The result of the deadly diseases brought to the New World by Europeans was
|
an extremely high mortality rate among the natives, destroying the culture of many tribes.
|
|
|
What was not a reason for the rise of European expansion and trade?
|
availability of cheaper land.
|
|
|
A Fifteenth-century European development that stimulated later exploration included
|
an increase in trade, development of new naval technology, and rise of naiton-states.
|
|
|
The encomienda was
|
a royal grant of Indian labor and land to conquistadores in return for their protection and guidance.
|
|
|
In Canada, the French colonial empire was
|
based primarily on the fur trade.
|
|
|
The English and Spanish colonial systems differed in that
|
the English efforts were privately funded, while the Spanish colonies were supported by the crown.
|
|
|
To keep the dream of America alive, Richard Hakluyt
|
interviewed explorers and propagandized their stories in a book.
|
|
|
What is true regarding the English colonization of Ireland?
|
The experience served as a model for England's later colonization of America.
|
|
|
John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) primarily wanted to
|
find the northwest passage for England.
|
|
|
In his attempt to settle the Roanoke colony, Sir Walter Ralegh found that
|
inadequate financing and difficulty in communication and supplies doomed the project.
|
|
|
The key to the success of Protestantism in England was
|
widely popular anticlericalism.
|
|
|
The religious settlement of Elizabeth I
|
made the Church of England Catholic in organization and ceremony, but Protestant in doctrines.
|
|
|
The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588
|
totally destroyed the Spanish fleet.
|
|
|
The arrival of Europeans in the Western Hemisphere had little impact on the lives of the native inhabitants.
|
False
|
|
|
Europeans were successful in teaching Native Americans to adopt European culture.
|
False
|
|
|
Columbus greatly underestimated the distance from Spain westward to Asia.
|
True
|
|
|
Montezuma was briefly indecisive because he thought the Spanish might have been messengers from the god Quetzalcoatl.
|
True
|
|
|
Cortes easily defeated the Aztec empire.
|
True
|
|
|
The Spanish colonies received little or no support from the government in Madrid.
|
False
|
|
|
The Act of Supremacy of 1534 made the Catholic Church supreme in England.
|
False
|
|
|
The English planted semi-military colonies in Ireland in the 1560s and 1570s.
|
True
|
|
|
Native American farmers grew corn, squash, and __________.
|
beans
|
|
|
Most tribes located on the Atlantic Coast of North America belonged to a linguistic group known as __________.
|
the Eastern Woodlands Tribal Group
|
|
|
Eric the Red's son, Leif, established a small settlement in North America in the tenth century called__________.
|
Greenland
|
|
|
More maneuverable ships built in the fifteenth century with a new type of sail were called __________.
|
caravels
|
|
|
The __________, invented at some time in the 1430s by Johann Gutenberg, aided the spread of new knowledge.
|
printing press
|
|
|
In 1494, Pope Alexander VI divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal by issuing the __________.
|
Treaty of Tordesillas
|
|
|
The kings of Spain rewarded successful conquistadores with a grant of the labor of an Indian village. This grant was called an __________.
|
ecomienda
|
