USHA Chapter 1 Three Worlds Meet

The Crusades led to all of the following except

After the Europeans arrived in the Caribbean, what caused the deaths of countless Native Americans?

The development of complex societies in the Americas was first made possible by

A monarch is a sovereign head of state.

All of the following resulted from the Atlantic slave trade except

A hieroglyph is a stylized picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or sound.

How did the first people to arrive in the Americas support themselves?

Early migration to the Americas from Asia ended about 10,000 years ago because

One of the first crops that Native Americans grew to make bread was

A totem involves a religious ceremony or rite.

A plantation is an estate on which crops are cultivated by resident labor.

Potatoes, brought back from America, became an important crop in Europe because

Life for the Sioux and others on the Great Plains changed dramatically after they began to

The people of this culture conquered the valley of Mexico and built great cities and ceremonial centers.

Which of the following led to a new confidence in human achievement?

An astrolabe is a compact instrument used to observe and calculate the position of the stars.

Most people enslaved in African societies had

These people built huge mounds in the shapes of animals.

How was slavery in West Africa different from later slavery in the Americas?

An epidemic is a supply of water to crops to help growth.

Between which two groups did the Treaty of Tordesillas prevent conflict?

A shaman is a sovereign head of state.

When Columbus landed in the Bahamas, what did he call the people living there?

Which country financed Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic in 1492?

These people built a civilization that thrived on the Yucatan peninsula.

Which of the following was not a strong state by the mid-1400s?

An artisan is a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.

A lineage is determined thought the female line of descent.

A hierarchy is the process of establishing control over an indigenous people of an area.

Columbus's voyages to the Americas led to all of the following in Europe except

Researchers believe that people arrived in America

A sacrament is a system of organization in which people are ranked one above the other according to status.

By A.D. 711, the ideas of which religion had spread across northern Africa?

One similarity between European and African societies in the 1400s was that

To irrigate means using a compact instrument to observe and calculate the position of the stars.

This mound society built pyramid-like mounds east of the Mississippi River.

Colonization is the action or process of settling among and establishing control over indigenous people.

A people that is matrilineal determines their lines of descent through their mothers.

The first Native Americans that Columbus encountered called themselves

These people built a culture high in the Andes Mountains.

How did the African kingdoms of Songhai, Benin, and Kongo all gain power?

The model of using West African slaves as the labor force on plantations was developed by the

A nomad is a tribal healer who can act as a medium between the visible world and the spirit world.

The culture was the first empire of the Americas.

These people introduced crops in the Southwest and used irrigation methods.