Topic 1 Test: America's Cultural Roots

was an emperor of the Mali Empire during the 14th century.

"The Father of New France", was a French navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, etc.

any of the Native American peoples inhabiting the Great Plains of the United States and Canada.

How would climate change have affected Paleo-Indians' way of life?

Political alliance between five Northeastern tribes (for protecting Tribal Lands)

first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts

What objection did American Indians most likely have to the work of Spanish missionaries?

He was the first European who went to India through the Cape of Good Hope

How did these events contribute to the rise of the Renaissance in Europe?

Which of the following was a main characteristic of both Spanish and French colonization?

How did the settlement of Louisiana benefit France?

Amerigo Vespucci's explorations of America had what effect on Europeans knowledge of the globe?

Created the first circumnavigation of the Earth

This groups life began to develop in the Mississippi River Valley (for which it is named).

cultural rebirth that occurred from roughly the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries

The Apache, Hopi, Navajo, Pueblo, and Zuni tribes were the predominant tribes that made up the-

Spanish Conquistador who defeated the Aztec Empire and claimed Mexico for Spain

Fort or military outpost

Spanish official appointed to rule land claimed by Spain in the new world

was emperor of the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest.

Which of the following developments correctly completes the sequence of events?

Trading routes linked the kingdoms of West Africa most directly to cultures in which region?

an important figure in 15th-century Portuguese politics and in the Portuguese Empire.

A route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, often sought by early explorers.

Early 16th century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru

How did life in European towns like the one shown here differ from life on feudal estates?

Which of the developments caused the Spanish to initially lose interest in northern lands?

A period lasting thousands of year during which the earth was covered by ice and glaciers

settled in the region extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Mississippi River

How did Southwest Indians adapt to the geographic conditions exemplified by this photograph?

Which would most likely have been a feature of both West Africans and American Indians?

a man or woman of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian.

widespread transfer of plants, animals, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World

people who are sent by a religious organization to spread the faith

Which reason best explains why Columbus believed he had reached the East Indies?

a person of mixed American Indian and Euro-American ancestry