AP US History Chapter 1 Flashcards

Summer Homework Assignemnt

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