The
Shaping of North America
Know: Appalachian Mountains, Tidewater Region, Rocky
Mountains, Great Basin, Great Lakes, Missouri-Mississippi-Ohio River
System
2. Speculate
how at least one geographic feature affected the development of the United
States.
The Missouri-Mississippi-Ohio river
system will probably become an asset in the way that it would be a faster way
to travel as well as ship goods.
Peopling
the Americas
Know: Land Bridge
3. "Before
the arrival of Europeans, the settlement of the Americas was
insignificant." Assess this
statement.
This statement is incorrect because
there were already millions of native American people living in the Americas.
The
Earliest Americans
Know: Maize, Aztecs, Incas, Pueblo, Mound Builders,
Three-sister Farming, Cherokee, Iroquois
4. Describe
some of the common features North American Indian culture.
Three sister farming; corn, beans, and squash. They also spiritually respected the nature.
Indirect
Discoverers of the New World
Know:
Finland, Crusaders, Venice, Genoa
5.
What caused Europeans to begin exploring?
They started to explore because a new
cheaper trade route to Asia was needed in order to supply goods such as spices
and silk cheaply.
Europeans Enter Africa
Know: Marco
Polo, Caravel, Bartholomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand and Isabella, Moors
6. What were the results of the Portuguese
explorations of Africa?
Trading posts for gold and slaves were
built, and African slaves started to be used in sugar plantations.
Columbus
Comes upon a New World
Know: Columbus
7. What
developments set the stage for “a cataclysmic shift in the course of history?”
The mariners compass, the renaissance
helped bring back optimism and a sense of adventure. Also most importantly a
less expensive trade route was needed to transport goods from Asia.
When
Worlds Collide
Know: Corn, Potatoes, Sugar, Horses, Smallpox
8. Explain
the positive and negative effects of the Atlantic Exchange (also known at the
Columbian Exchange).
Europeans got tobacco, corn, beans,
tomatoes, and potatoes they were also introduced to syphilis. Native Americans
got horses and pigs they also got smallpox, yellow fever, and malaria which
killed 90% of their population.
The Spanish Conquistadores
Know: Treaty
of Tordesillas, Vasco Nunez Balboa, Ferdinand Magellan, Juan Ponce de Leon,
Francisco Coronado, Hernando de Soto, Francisco Pizarro, Encomienda
9. Were the conquistadors great men? Explain.
Yes and no some conquistadores were
viewed as great men because they discovered a lot of new land goods for their
country. Where as others were morally wrong because they killed and took
advantage of the natives in search of gold.
Makers
of America: The Spanish Conquistadors
Know: Granada, Moors, "Reconquista"
10. Were the conquistadors' motives successfully fulfilled? Explain.
Some were because they wanted royal
titles, to spread Christianity, and become rich but most did not and went into
debt.
The
Conquest of Mexico
Know: Hernan
Cortes, Tenochtitlan, Montezuma, Mestizos
11.
Why was Cortes able to defeat the powerful Aztecs?
Cortez had eleven ships with hundreds of men as well as twenty
thousand native allies.
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