Summer Homework Assignemnt
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| 7157221997 | The geologically oldest mountains in North America are | The Appalachians | 0 | |
| 7157221998 | The Indian peoples of the Americas were | Divided into many diverse cultures speaking more than 2000 different languages | 1 | |
| 7157221999 | The Iroquois Confederacy remained a strong political and military influence until | The American revolution | 2 | |
| 7157222000 | One of the important factors that first stimulated European interest in trade a discovery was | The Christian Crusaders who brought back a taste for the silks and spices of Asia | 3 | |
| 7157222001 | Among the most important American Indian products to spread to the old world were | Foodstuffs such as maize, beans, and tomatoes | 4 | |
| 7157222002 | The primary staples of Indian agriculture were | Maize, beans, and squash | 5 | |
| 7157222003 | The number of Indians in North America at the time Columbus arrive was approximately | 20 million | 6 | |
| 7157222004 | The Portuguese were the first to enter the slave trade and establish large-scale plantations using slave labor in | The Atlantic sugar islands | 7 | |
| 7157222005 | Much of the impetus for Spanish exploration in pursuit of glory in the early 1500s came from Spain's recent | The national unification expulsion of the Muslim Moors | 8 | |
| 7157222006 | A crucial political development that pave the way for European colonization of America was | The rise of the centralized national monarchies such as that of Spain | 9 | |
| 7157222007 | The primary reason for the drastic decline in the Indian population after the encounter with the Europeans was | The Indians' lack of resistance to European diseases such as smallpox and malaria | 10 | |
| 7157222008 | Cortés and his men were able to conquer the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán partly because | The Aztec ruler Montezuma believe that Cortés was a God whose return had been predicted (the entire movie of road to El Dorado) | 11 | |
| 7157222009 | The primary early colonial competitor with Spain in the Americas was | Portugal | 12 | |
| 7157222010 | The believes that the Spanish only killed, tortured, install in the Americas, while contributing nothing good, is called | The Black Legend | 13 | |
| 7157222011 | ID: extended. When glaciers covered most of the north American continent | The Ice Age | 14 | |
| 7157222012 | ID: staple crop that formed the economic foundation of Indian civilizations | Maize (corn) | 15 | |
| 7157222013 | ID: important Mississippian culture site, near present-day East St. Louis, Illinois | Cahokia | 16 | |
| 7157222014 | ID: first European nation to send explores around the west coast of Africa | The Portuguese | 17 | |
| 7157222015 | ID: flourishing west African kingdom that had its capital and University at Timbuktu | Mali | 18 | |
| 7157222016 | ID: mistaken term that the first European explorers gave to the American lands because of the false belief that they were off the coast of Asia | Indians | 19 | |
| 7157222017 | ID: animal introduced by Europeans that transformed the Indian way of life on the great plains | Horses | 20 | |
| 7157222018 | ID: name one of the major European diseases that devastated native American populations after 1492 | Smallpox; yellow fever | 21 | |
| 7157222019 | ID: disease originating in the Americas that was transmitted back to the Europeans after 1492 | Syphilis | 22 | |
| 7157222020 | ID: treaty that proclaimed a Spanish title to land in the Americas by dividing them with Portugal | Tordesillas | 23 | |
| 7157222021 | ID: wealthy capital of the Aztec empire | Tenochtitlan | 24 | |
| 7157222022 | ID: person of mixed European and Indian ancestry | Mestizo | 25 | |
| 7157222023 | ID: Indian uprising in New Mexico caused by Spanish efforts to suppress Indian religion | Pope's Rebellion | 26 | |
| 7157222024 | ID: Indian people of the Rio Grande Valley who were Krully oppressed by the Spanish conquerors | Pueblos | 27 | |
| 7157222025 | ID: Roman Catholic religious order of friars that organized a chain of missions in California | Father Serra's brown Robed Franciscan Friars (Tried to convert Indians to Catholicism) | 28 |
