The American Pageant 14th edition chapter 1 Flashcards

7238910079	Reasons for exploration in the New World	Demand for more and cheaper products Search for new routes Gold, Glory, Gospel--wanted to become rich and famous, convert people to Christianity.	0
7238928174	Recorded history began________ years ago.	6,000	1
7238931654	What was three-sister farming?	An agricultural method in which corn, beans and squash were grown together	2
7238935778	A theory that suggest that the continents were once a whole as one mega-continent	Pangaea	3
7238946105	Linking Asia and North America across what is known as the Bering Sea. People were said to walk across before the sea level rose and sealed it off.	The Land Bridge	4
7238948952	The Land Bridge is said to have occurred _________________ years ago.	35,000	5
7238954194	Countless________ emerged with an estimated _________ languages.	Tribes, 2,000	6
7238958186	Peru, with elaborate network of roads and bridges linking their empire.	Incas	7
7238960579	Yucatan peninsula, with their step pyramids.	Mayas	8
7238963108	Mexico, with step pyramids and huge sacrifices of conquered peoples.	Aztecs	9
7238972234	Developed around 5,000 B.C. , Settled to be farmers, gave rise to towns, increased profit, simple to grow and harvest,	Corn/Maize	10
7238997413	Maize early on affected which civilizations?	Mayan, Aztec, Incan empires and Mississippians, Mound Builders, Anasazis.	11
7239129777	1st corn growers, lived in adobe houses.	Pueblo Indians	12
7239138028	Built huge ceremonial and burial mounds and were located in the Ohio River Valley.	Mound Builders	13
7239159560	Grew corn, beans and squash known as sister farming, had the best (most diverse) diet of all the North American Indians.	Eastern Indians	14
7239160783	How did three sister farming work?	Corn grew in a stalk providing a trellis for beans, beans grew up the stalk, squash's broad leaves kept the sun off the ground and thus kept the moisture in the soil.	15
7239171171	A group of 5 tribes in New York State, each tribe kept their independence,	Iroquois Confederation	16
7239173830	Leader of the Iroquois Confederation	Hiawatha	17
7239178925	Differences between the Indians and the Europeans:	-Native Americans felt tribes owned the land (Europeans felt man owned the land) -Indians felt nature was mixed with many spirits (Europeans were Christian and monotheistic) -Indians had little or no interest in money (Europeans loved money or gold)	18
7239192615	Who were the first Europeans to come to America?	Norse (Vikings from Norway)	19
7239197371	Leader of the Vikings	Erik the Red and Leif Erikson	20
7239200333	Vikings landed in __________ or ___________	Newfoundland or Vinland	21
7239231136	Travled to China and stirred up a storm of European interest.	Marco Polo	22
7239232957	a ship with a triangular sail that could better tack ahead into the wind and thus return to Europe from the African coast	Caravel	23
7239238095	a sextant gizmo that could tell a ship's latitude	Astrolabe	24
7239242428	The first slave trade was across the __________________.	Sahara Desert	25
7239254046	Christopher Columbus convinced ________________ and _____________ to fund his expedition.	Isabella and Ferdinand	26
7239277142	What was Christopher Columbus's goal?	Reach the East Indies by sailing West, thus bypassing the around-Africa route that Portugal monopolized.	27
7239305083	The Columbian Exchange from the New World to the Old World	Corn, potatoes, tobacco, beans, squash, wild rice.	28
7239310814	The Columbian Exchange from the Old World to the New World	Cows, pigs, horses, sugar cane, carrots, apples, diseases.	29
7239325615	Portugal and Spain feuded over who got what land. The pope drew this line as he was respected by both. The line ran North-South and chopped off the Brazilian coast of South America. Portugal got everything east of the line and Spain got everything west.	Treaty Line of Tordesillas 1494	30
7239386265	"Discovered" the Pacific Ocean across isthmus of Panama	Vasco Balboa	31
7239392717	Circumnavigates the globe	Ferdinand Magellan	32
7239400109	Conquers Incan Empire of Peru	Francisco Coronado	33
7239403546	Indians were "commended" or given to Spanish landlords. Idea was to convert Indians to Christianity.	Ecomienda System	34
7239419976	Native American Empire who lived in Mexico	Aztecs	35
7239421891	Developed to gather the savings from the middle class to support finance colonies.	Joint stock companies	36
7239435242	Groups of ships sent by King Phillip II of Spain to invade England in 1588. Was defeated by English "sea dogs" in the Channel.	Spanish Armada	37
7263408793	The first European explorers reached the region that would become the Americas more than ____________________	500 years ago	38
7263413916	What proof has led researchers to conclude that the earth once contained a singular continent	There are identical species of fish in freshwater lakes across the globe	39
7263421686	What is the dominant theory about how the first people arrived in what we now call North America	They walked across a land bridge from Eurasia to North America	40
7263437846	The Incas, Mayans, and Aztecs owe the development of their sophisticated early civilization to _______________	Agriculture, partially the cultivation of corn or maize	41