HIUS 221 EXAM 1 LIBERTY
UNIVERSITY DR. ESSWEIN
QUESTIONS & UPDATED ANSWERS
PASSED 100%
Feudal Vessel - Correct Answer ✔✔ Land owning nobility tied to their lords through
mutual bonds of service
Nation State - Correct Answer ✔✔ Political entity with well-defined borders recognized
as sovereign, stable, and indivisible
Silk Road - Correct Answer ✔✔ Well used trading routes from Western Europe to India
and China that ran through Constantinople
Age of Exploration - Correct Answer ✔✔ From 1450-1600. When Europe discovered
new lands
Maya - Correct Answer ✔✔ Yucatan Peninsula. Height from 300 to 900 AD. Unique
system of writing, math, science, etc. More than 50 states.
Aztecs - Correct Answer ✔✔ Dominate from 1200-1521. Capital Tenochtitlan. Highly
civilized. Militaristic state. Performed human sacrifice.
Iroquois Confederacy - Correct Answer ✔✔ Located in NY. Made up of 5 tribes:
Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas
Matrilinical - Correct Answer ✔✔ Passed from mother to child
Songhai - Correct Answer ✔✔ Dominant West Africa in 15th and 16th century. Askia
Mohammed ruled from 1493-1528. Expanded and adopted Islam
Caravel - Correct Answer ✔✔ Made in 1450. Could travel further in uncharted water
and stand rough seas of the Atlantic
Astrolabe - Correct Answer ✔✔ Navigation Instrument for estimating latitude by
measuring distance of the sun and stars from the horizon
Columbus - Correct Answer ✔✔ Sailed for Spain in 1492 for western route to Asia.
Located San Salvador in West Indies which opened Americas to European exploration
and colonization
, Bartolomeu Dias - Correct Answer ✔✔ Portuguese sailor and first known European to
sail around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella - Correct Answer ✔✔ Spanish monarchs who
funded Columbus
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) - Correct Answer ✔✔ Agreement between Spain and
Portugal splitting all newly discovered lands of the New World between those two
nations alone
Amerigo Vespucci - Correct Answer ✔✔ Italian navigator and cartographer who first
identified South America as a continent in 1502
Northwest Passage - Correct Answer ✔✔ Water route used to reach Far East by going
North of America. Passage did not exist as it was blocked by ice until 2007
Native Societies Pre-Columbus - Correct Answer ✔✔ -Arrived by boat
-Arrived from Beringia
-By 1492 an estimated 58-113 million natives in Americas
Hohokam, Anasazi, and Pueblo - Correct Answer ✔✔ Southwest. Complex agricultural
practices
Adena-Hopewell and Mississippi Valley - Correct Answer ✔✔ Built own towns with
extensive trade networks
Columbian Exchange - Correct Answer ✔✔ Exchange of plants, animals, tech, cultures,
and disease among Atlantic peoples
Taino - Correct Answer ✔✔ People of the Caribbean
Sugar Cane - Correct Answer ✔✔ Rich in sugar and proved a valuable cash crop but
required a lot of labor
Smallpox - Correct Answer ✔✔ Deadly disease carried by Europeans to New World.
Killed a majority of natives
Kongo - Correct Answer ✔✔ Large and prosperous of west central Africa. First found by
Portuguese in 15th century. Source of many Atlantic slaves
Atlantic slave trade - Correct Answer ✔✔ In 1440's, Portugal initiated slave trade. More
than 10 million slaves taken from Africa
Mercantilism - Correct Answer ✔✔ Country's raw materials finished in-country.
Required balance of trade with mother country.
UNIVERSITY DR. ESSWEIN
QUESTIONS & UPDATED ANSWERS
PASSED 100%
Feudal Vessel - Correct Answer ✔✔ Land owning nobility tied to their lords through
mutual bonds of service
Nation State - Correct Answer ✔✔ Political entity with well-defined borders recognized
as sovereign, stable, and indivisible
Silk Road - Correct Answer ✔✔ Well used trading routes from Western Europe to India
and China that ran through Constantinople
Age of Exploration - Correct Answer ✔✔ From 1450-1600. When Europe discovered
new lands
Maya - Correct Answer ✔✔ Yucatan Peninsula. Height from 300 to 900 AD. Unique
system of writing, math, science, etc. More than 50 states.
Aztecs - Correct Answer ✔✔ Dominate from 1200-1521. Capital Tenochtitlan. Highly
civilized. Militaristic state. Performed human sacrifice.
Iroquois Confederacy - Correct Answer ✔✔ Located in NY. Made up of 5 tribes:
Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas
Matrilinical - Correct Answer ✔✔ Passed from mother to child
Songhai - Correct Answer ✔✔ Dominant West Africa in 15th and 16th century. Askia
Mohammed ruled from 1493-1528. Expanded and adopted Islam
Caravel - Correct Answer ✔✔ Made in 1450. Could travel further in uncharted water
and stand rough seas of the Atlantic
Astrolabe - Correct Answer ✔✔ Navigation Instrument for estimating latitude by
measuring distance of the sun and stars from the horizon
Columbus - Correct Answer ✔✔ Sailed for Spain in 1492 for western route to Asia.
Located San Salvador in West Indies which opened Americas to European exploration
and colonization
, Bartolomeu Dias - Correct Answer ✔✔ Portuguese sailor and first known European to
sail around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella - Correct Answer ✔✔ Spanish monarchs who
funded Columbus
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) - Correct Answer ✔✔ Agreement between Spain and
Portugal splitting all newly discovered lands of the New World between those two
nations alone
Amerigo Vespucci - Correct Answer ✔✔ Italian navigator and cartographer who first
identified South America as a continent in 1502
Northwest Passage - Correct Answer ✔✔ Water route used to reach Far East by going
North of America. Passage did not exist as it was blocked by ice until 2007
Native Societies Pre-Columbus - Correct Answer ✔✔ -Arrived by boat
-Arrived from Beringia
-By 1492 an estimated 58-113 million natives in Americas
Hohokam, Anasazi, and Pueblo - Correct Answer ✔✔ Southwest. Complex agricultural
practices
Adena-Hopewell and Mississippi Valley - Correct Answer ✔✔ Built own towns with
extensive trade networks
Columbian Exchange - Correct Answer ✔✔ Exchange of plants, animals, tech, cultures,
and disease among Atlantic peoples
Taino - Correct Answer ✔✔ People of the Caribbean
Sugar Cane - Correct Answer ✔✔ Rich in sugar and proved a valuable cash crop but
required a lot of labor
Smallpox - Correct Answer ✔✔ Deadly disease carried by Europeans to New World.
Killed a majority of natives
Kongo - Correct Answer ✔✔ Large and prosperous of west central Africa. First found by
Portuguese in 15th century. Source of many Atlantic slaves
Atlantic slave trade - Correct Answer ✔✔ In 1440's, Portugal initiated slave trade. More
than 10 million slaves taken from Africa
Mercantilism - Correct Answer ✔✔ Country's raw materials finished in-country.
Required balance of trade with mother country.
