Exam 1: When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe

The most likely reason for European success in conquering the American Indian population is

The Indians of the Pacific northwest divided tasks along gender lines.

The era of European exploration

____________________ was the eleventh-century Norse explorer who established Vinland, the first European colony in North America.

After the 1430s information was able to circulate more freely in Europe than anywhere else in the world because of the

The ____________________ were cliff-dwelling people in the American southwest.

The early civilizations of America were basically ____ age cultures.

The ____________________ established their first African fort at Cape Blanco in 1448.

The crusades influenced European expansion by

Examine the variety of Native American societies in the period before European conquest.

The Franciscans were the first Catholic missionaries to the North American Indians.

In 1400, western European society was

Before the nineteenth century, more than ____ of the people who sailed across the Atlantic were slaves.

Almost ____________________ million people lived in the Western Hemisphere 1492.

Which of the following is not true of the Spanish conquistadores?

By 1300, more than ____________________ million people were living in Europe.

The first European slaves were black Africans.

Human habitation of the Americas began approximately

In the period 1530 to 1630, the population of Mexico and Peru decreased by nearly

Aside from Marco Polo, the Chinese had no contact whatsoever with the rest of the world.