US History: Topic 1 - America's Cultural Roots

Created the first circumnavigation of the Earth

Which event had the most influence on the spread of ideas in Renaissance Europe?

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

West Africa's location was important to its role in international trade bc it linked Europe w/Asia & the Mediterranean

The nation of "Spain" was created when:

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

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

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

Which of the following was responsible for the decline in American Indian populations after contact with Europeans?

Portuguese navigator whose 3 voyages to India @ Cape of Good Hope opened up a sea route from western Europe to the east

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Portuguese explorer who commanded the first European expedition to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in 1488

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

An emperor of the Mali Empire during the 14th century:

American Indian people of the Yucatan area of Southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize; civilization peak btw AD 300-900

Vespucci was an Italian explorer and merchant who made early voyages to the America's in 1499 and 1501

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

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

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

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

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

American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century