Exam 1: Colliding Worlds, 1491-1600

How did Europeans make the transition from barbarians to world leaders who could extend their influence into Africa and across the Atlantic to conquer the Americas in the two-hundred-year period between 1300 and 1500?

In West Africa,the Ghana Empire (A.D.800 to 1200),the Mali Empire (1200s to the 1400s),and the fifteenth-century Songhai Empire shared which of the following characteristics?

Which of the following motivations drove the Spanish conquistadors who followed Columbus to the Americas in the early sixteenth century?

Answer the following questions : -Rocky Mountains

Answer the following questions : -Algonquian cultures/languages

Why were the Crusades,which took place between 1096 and 1291 A.D. ,significant in Europe?

Which of the following describes the first ancestors of the Native American peoples?

Which of the following factors prevented Europeans from seeking to conquer territory in Africa in the fifteenth century?

Which of the following Renaissance-era ideologies celebrated public virtue and service to the state?

Which of the following statements describes the status of European monarchs in 1450?

What were the major similarities and differences between the civilizations of Mesoamerica and Mississippian culture in the fifteenth century,just before European contact?

Why were the leaders of West African ministates eager to participate in trade relationships with Europeans when they began to explore the region's coast in the mid-1440s?

Why and how did Portugal and Spain pursue overseas commerce and conquest in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

By the time the Europeans arrived in the Western Hemisphere in the 1490s,most Native Americans who lived in large civilizations were in which of the following regions?

Which of the following factors eased the Spaniards' conquest of the Aztecs in the sixteenth century?

Which of the following explorers is correctly matched with his area of exploration?

The Aztecs lived in which of the following present-day locales?

Which of the following was a characteristic of the Aztec,Mayan,and Iroquois civilizations?

Answer the following questions : -Great Lakes

Answer the following questions : -Iroquois Confederacy