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Chapter 1 - Three Societies on the Verge of Contact
1. What was the significance of the discovery of Kennewick Man?
a. It confirmed that earliest settlers in North America were of Asian origin.
b. It presented the possibility that North American settlement happened in different waves from a variety of
locations.
c. It was the first discovery that confirmed the existence of the Aztec civilization in the American Southwest in
400 B.C.E.
d. It corroborated the Beringia theory, which stated that the first settlers of North America came following herds
of woolly mammoths.
ANSWER: b
2. Which of the following statements is true about the Archaic era?
a. It was the era during which hunting was a primary source of sustenance for most people of Native North
America.
b. It was characterized by the establishment of a sedentary existence in American prehistory.
c. It was the beginning of the creation of complex social hierarchical structures.
d. It marked the end of the pre-Columbian era.
ANSWER: b
3. What does the formation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy demonstrate?
a. Very few tribes traded peacefully with other tribes.
b. Defensive alliances were formed to counter the fear of attack.
c. Centralized political power was needed to manage trade.
d. Most native people shared similar customs and beliefs.
ANSWER: b
4. How was life different for tribes living in the Southwest than for the Native American tribes living in prairies?
a. They produced no pottery or basketry.
b. They relied primarily on fishing for their subsistence.
c. They subsisted almost entirely on agriculture.
d. They depended almost entirely on bison for their subsistence.
ANSWER: c
5. Which of the following was most likely the reason the Pueblo people were able to survive in the Southwest despite the
limited amount of rain in the region?
a. They developed canals, dams, and hillside terracing to control and channel rainwater.
b. They depended primarily on fish and bison for their subsistence.
c. They subsisted almost entirely on tobacco cultivation, which does not require much water.
d. They traded arrowheads, furs, and wampum in return for food with the tribes in the Northwest.
ANSWER: a
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6. During the pre-Columbian era, how did agriculture impact the way many societies operated?
a. People could remain in a single location and create complex hierarchies among them.
b. People no longer had to depend on long-standing trading networks.
c. People became semi-sedentary in order to follow herds for food.
d. People based clan leadership on matrilineal lines because women controlled food sources.
ANSWER: a
7. What role did women play in tribal society for many clans during the pre-Columbian era?
a. They were responsible for hunting and fishing.
b. They held most of the land, passed down from female relatives.
c. They maintained the tribe's socialinstitutions.
d. They acted as spiritual leaders.
ANSWER: c
8. Which of the following African empires on the Malian coast was approached by European traders in search of goods
and people to enslave?
a. Kongo
b. Ghana
c. Lower Guinea
d. Egypt
ANSWER: a
9. What led to the decline of the kingdom of Ghana and its loss of power in West Africa?
a. The lack of political stability in the combined territories in Ghana
b. The spread of Islam throughout Ghana, blocking trade with non-Islam nations
c. The gold found elsewhere in West Africa that could easily be traded over its extensive trade routes
d. The refusal of Europeans to deal with what they considered to be a backward nation
ANSWER: c
10. How were enslavement practices in Lower Guinea different from the type of slavery that developed in the North
American European colonies?
a. The enslaved people in Lower Guinea could not earn wages.
b. The enslaved people in Lower Guinea were considered chattel.
c. The enslaved people in Lower Guinea were predestined to be enslaved.
d. The enslaved people in Lower Guinea often sold themselves into slavery.
ANSWER: d
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11. What major religion did the majority of Africa's various regions practice when the Europeans first made contact in the
1400s?
a. Islam
b. Lutheranism
c. Catholicism
d. Hinduism
ANSWER: a
12. Why was Mali an important kingdom in Africa as Ghana fell into decline?
a. It became the center of Islamic learning and teachings.
b. The discovery of gold made it one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
c. The Portuguese set up the first trading post for enslaved people there.
d. It served as Africa's cultural and artistic capital.
ANSWER: d
13. Before contact with Europeans, how did political systems in West Africa impact citizens?
a. Villages were organized along patrilineal kinship lines.
b. Large kingdoms developed extensive trade routes.
c. Citizens were highly educated in the arts and sciences.
d. War captives were treated as enslaved chattel.
ANSWER: b
14. Which of the following statements is true about the feudal system that was prevalent in medieval Europe?
a. The serfs had been given the ownership of small portions of a large agricultural estate.
b. The vassal had authority over the land’s inhabitants.
c. The servants who worked for the vassals could act autonomously.
d. The serfs who worked on manors could change their professions if they wanted to do so.
ANSWER: b
15. Which of the following was one of the factors that engendered the Renaissance?
a. The expansion of the feudal system in the fifteenth century
b. The high level of material well-being in the great European cities
c. The spread of atheism in the great European cities
d. The increased control of the Catholic Church over agricultural estates
ANSWER: b
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16. Which of the following factors led to the development of Christian humanism in sixteenth-century Europe?
a. The slow urbanization of Europe
b. The increased acceptance of the feudal system in Europe
c. The decline of the Reformation movement
d. The disintegration of monarchial powers
ANSWER: a
17. Which of the following statements is true about the Protestant Reformation?
a. It supported the Church’s authority over the feudal lands.
b. It questioned the practice of selling indulgences.
c. It emphasized that the works one did to demonstrate faith led to salvation.
d. It demanded the establishment of a church with hierarchies.
ANSWER: b
18. What impact did the fragmenting of the unity of Catholic authority over Europe have?
a. It hastened the development of nationalism.
b. It created a Church with more hierarchies.
c. It upheld the importance of rituals such as the Mass and confessions.
d. It suppressed the growth of new religious traditions.
ANSWER: a
19. Why was the Protestant Reformation important in shaping European nations in the mid-1400s
a. It fragmented the unity of the Catholic authority over Europe.
b. It decreased the aggressive attempts to expand the wealth of the Church.
c. It espoused the hierarchy of nobles rather than the Church.
d. It placed power in the hands of feudal alliances.
ANSWER: a
20. After spreading northward for at least five hundred years, what served to stop the spread of Islam in Europe?
a. Islamic challenges to the righteousness of Roman Catholicism
b. The rising power of merchants in pursuing capitalism
c. The use of the printing press to democratize knowledge
d. Spanish control of the city of Granada
ANSWER: d
21. Describe the lifestyles of the people of the Paleo-Indian era.
ANSWER:
22. Discuss the social systems of the pre-Columbian native North Americans.
ANSWER:
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23. Discuss the factors that led to the formation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
ANSWER:
24. Outline the major cultural, political, and economic characteristics of West African societies on the eve of European
contact.
ANSWER:
25. Discuss the factors that led to the decline of feudalism in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Europe. What were the
most significant historical effects of the decline of feudalism?
ANSWER:
26. Discuss the power of Catholicism in Europe during the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries.
ANSWER:
27. Discuss the role of the printing press in the Reformation.
ANSWER:
28. Identify and describe the historical significance of Paleo-Indians
ANSWER:
29. Identify and describe the historical significance of sedentary existence
ANSWER:
30. Identify and describe the historical significance of matrilineal
ANSWER:
31. Identify and describe the historical significance of polytheistic
ANSWER:
32. Identify and describe the historical significance of animistic
ANSWER:
33. Identify and describe the historical significance of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy
ANSWER:
34. Identify and describe the historical significance of the Pueblo people
ANSWER:
35. Identify and describe the historical significance of Islam
ANSWER:
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36. Identify and describe the historical significance of Timbuktu
ANSWER:
37. Identify and describe the historical significance of Lower Guinea
ANSWER:
38. Identify and describe the historical significance of the Songhay Empire
ANSWER:
39. Identify and describe the historical significance of Benin
ANSWER:
40. Identify and describe the historical significance of Kongo
ANSWER:
41. Identify and describe the historical significance of feudalism
ANSWER:
42. Identify and describe the historical significance of mercantilism
ANSWER:
43. Identify and describe the historical significance of the Black Death
ANSWER:
44. Identify and describe the historical significance of the Renaissance
ANSWER:
45. Identify and describe the historical significance of humanism
ANSWER:
46. Identify and describe the historical significance of Christian humanism
ANSWER:
47. Identify and describe the historical significance of the printing press
ANSWER:
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Chapter 2 - Contact and Settlement, 1492–1660
1. Which of the following was one of the primary reasons why Europeans wished to explore lands overseas in the
fourteenth century?
a. They desired the valuable spices available in the Middle East, India, and parts of Africa.
b. They wanted to conquer territories beyond Europe.
c. The increasing population density in Europe made the acquisition of new farmland in North America a
necessity.
d. They needed to escape from conditions of hunger, disease, and death that were rampant in Europe throughout
the fourteenth century.
ANSWER: a
2. Why did the Spanish monarchy agree to fund Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492?
a. To claim new territories in present-day Bahamas and South America
b. To take control of the West African coastline
c. To find a western route to Asia
d. To gain access to enslaved Africans to work on large farms
ANSWER: c
3. What was John Cabot's contribution to the continued interest in exploration, both in the Middle and Far East, and the
New Word?
a. He was the first to circumnavigate the world.
b. He mapped the coast line of South America and the Caribbean Sea.
c. He was the first to sail the Pacific from Europe.
d. He was able to harness easterly winds, making the trip from Canada to England in two weeks.
ANSWER: d
4. What led to the Portuguese use of enslaved Africans in the early 1500s?
a. The need to support the growing sugar industry
b. The need to have items for trade with Africa
c. The need to increase military strength with additional troops
d. The need to replace enslaved people at the end of their terms of captivity
ANSWER: a
5. Why did Pope Alexander VI establish the Line of Demarcation in North America?
a. To establish closer ties between England and Spain, since those two countries would then control most of the
Americas
b. To make certain that the Spanish were able to harvest as much gold and silver as possible
c. To keep Spain and Portugal from openly fighting each other
d. To ensure that no other European nations settled in the colonies established by the English
ANSWER: c
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6. What was established by the Line of Demarcation?
a. It granted Central and North America to the French settlers.
b. It granted Brazil to Portugal.
c. It granted Florida to France.
d. It granted North America to the Dutch settlers.
ANSWER: b
7. Which of the following best describes the conquistadors?
a. Spanish noblemen who led private armies to conquer land and people in the Americas
b. The native population of specific regions in Central and North America
c. Portuguese and French explorers who first landed in North America
d. People who settled in St. Augustine, Florida, in the name of their king
ANSWER: a
8. Which of the following contributed to Hernán Cortés’s victory over the Triple Alliance in Mexico?
a. The establishment of the encomienda system in the area
b. Help from an enslaved woman and the Indigenous people of Tabasco
c. Assistance from Spanish colonists and conquistadors
d. Armies made up of enslaved people seeking their freedom
ANSWER: b
9. How did the enormous influx of silver to Spain in the mid-1500s impact Europe?
a. The system of encomienda was implemented to channel the incoming wealth for betterment of society.
b. European laborers and agricultural workers were given higher wages to keep up with rising prices.
c. Increased numbers of impoverished Europeans migrated to the Americas in search of a new life.
d. Dutch adventurers began to use eastern Virginia as a base from which to attack Spanish ships.
ANSWER: c
10. Why were the English slow to enter into exploration of the western hemisphere?
a. The country was in a state of war with France.
b. English sailors were focused on securing risk-free routes to the far East.
c. The English Crown, closely allied with Spain, was yet to attain stability.
d. Wealthy Englishmen were keener on improving the agricultural economy than participating in overseas
ventures.
ANSWER: c
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provided.
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Chapter 1 - Three Societies on the Verge of Contact
1. What was the significance of the discovery of Kennewick Man?
a. It confirmed that earliest settlers in North America were of Asian origin.
b. It presented the possibility that North American settlement happened in different waves from a variety of
locations.
c. It was the first discovery that confirmed the existence of the Aztec civilization in the American Southwest in
400 B.C.E.
d. It corroborated the Beringia theory, which stated that the first settlers of North America came following herds
of woolly mammoths.
ANSWER: b
2. Which of the following statements is true about the Archaic era?
a. It was the era during which hunting was a primary source of sustenance for most people of Native North
America.
b. It was characterized by the establishment of a sedentary existence in American prehistory.
c. It was the beginning of the creation of complex social hierarchical structures.
d. It marked the end of the pre-Columbian era.
ANSWER: b
3. What does the formation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy demonstrate?
a. Very few tribes traded peacefully with other tribes.
b. Defensive alliances were formed to counter the fear of attack.
c. Centralized political power was needed to manage trade.
d. Most native people shared similar customs and beliefs.
ANSWER: b
4. How was life different for tribes living in the Southwest than for the Native American tribes living in prairies?
a. They produced no pottery or basketry.
b. They relied primarily on fishing for their subsistence.
c. They subsisted almost entirely on agriculture.
d. They depended almost entirely on bison for their subsistence.
ANSWER: c
5. Which of the following was most likely the reason the Pueblo people were able to survive in the Southwest despite the
limited amount of rain in the region?
a. They developed canals, dams, and hillside terracing to control and channel rainwater.
b. They depended primarily on fish and bison for their subsistence.
c. They subsisted almost entirely on tobacco cultivation, which does not require much water.
d. They traded arrowheads, furs, and wampum in return for food with the tribes in the Northwest.
ANSWER: a
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6. During the pre-Columbian era, how did agriculture impact the way many societies operated?
a. People could remain in a single location and create complex hierarchies among them.
b. People no longer had to depend on long-standing trading networks.
c. People became semi-sedentary in order to follow herds for food.
d. People based clan leadership on matrilineal lines because women controlled food sources.
ANSWER: a
7. What role did women play in tribal society for many clans during the pre-Columbian era?
a. They were responsible for hunting and fishing.
b. They held most of the land, passed down from female relatives.
c. They maintained the tribe's socialinstitutions.
d. They acted as spiritual leaders.
ANSWER: c
8. Which of the following African empires on the Malian coast was approached by European traders in search of goods
and people to enslave?
a. Kongo
b. Ghana
c. Lower Guinea
d. Egypt
ANSWER: a
9. What led to the decline of the kingdom of Ghana and its loss of power in West Africa?
a. The lack of political stability in the combined territories in Ghana
b. The spread of Islam throughout Ghana, blocking trade with non-Islam nations
c. The gold found elsewhere in West Africa that could easily be traded over its extensive trade routes
d. The refusal of Europeans to deal with what they considered to be a backward nation
ANSWER: c
10. How were enslavement practices in Lower Guinea different from the type of slavery that developed in the North
American European colonies?
a. The enslaved people in Lower Guinea could not earn wages.
b. The enslaved people in Lower Guinea were considered chattel.
c. The enslaved people in Lower Guinea were predestined to be enslaved.
d. The enslaved people in Lower Guinea often sold themselves into slavery.
ANSWER: d
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11. What major religion did the majority of Africa's various regions practice when the Europeans first made contact in the
1400s?
a. Islam
b. Lutheranism
c. Catholicism
d. Hinduism
ANSWER: a
12. Why was Mali an important kingdom in Africa as Ghana fell into decline?
a. It became the center of Islamic learning and teachings.
b. The discovery of gold made it one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
c. The Portuguese set up the first trading post for enslaved people there.
d. It served as Africa's cultural and artistic capital.
ANSWER: d
13. Before contact with Europeans, how did political systems in West Africa impact citizens?
a. Villages were organized along patrilineal kinship lines.
b. Large kingdoms developed extensive trade routes.
c. Citizens were highly educated in the arts and sciences.
d. War captives were treated as enslaved chattel.
ANSWER: b
14. Which of the following statements is true about the feudal system that was prevalent in medieval Europe?
a. The serfs had been given the ownership of small portions of a large agricultural estate.
b. The vassal had authority over the land’s inhabitants.
c. The servants who worked for the vassals could act autonomously.
d. The serfs who worked on manors could change their professions if they wanted to do so.
ANSWER: b
15. Which of the following was one of the factors that engendered the Renaissance?
a. The expansion of the feudal system in the fifteenth century
b. The high level of material well-being in the great European cities
c. The spread of atheism in the great European cities
d. The increased control of the Catholic Church over agricultural estates
ANSWER: b
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16. Which of the following factors led to the development of Christian humanism in sixteenth-century Europe?
a. The slow urbanization of Europe
b. The increased acceptance of the feudal system in Europe
c. The decline of the Reformation movement
d. The disintegration of monarchial powers
ANSWER: a
17. Which of the following statements is true about the Protestant Reformation?
a. It supported the Church’s authority over the feudal lands.
b. It questioned the practice of selling indulgences.
c. It emphasized that the works one did to demonstrate faith led to salvation.
d. It demanded the establishment of a church with hierarchies.
ANSWER: b
18. What impact did the fragmenting of the unity of Catholic authority over Europe have?
a. It hastened the development of nationalism.
b. It created a Church with more hierarchies.
c. It upheld the importance of rituals such as the Mass and confessions.
d. It suppressed the growth of new religious traditions.
ANSWER: a
19. Why was the Protestant Reformation important in shaping European nations in the mid-1400s
a. It fragmented the unity of the Catholic authority over Europe.
b. It decreased the aggressive attempts to expand the wealth of the Church.
c. It espoused the hierarchy of nobles rather than the Church.
d. It placed power in the hands of feudal alliances.
ANSWER: a
20. After spreading northward for at least five hundred years, what served to stop the spread of Islam in Europe?
a. Islamic challenges to the righteousness of Roman Catholicism
b. The rising power of merchants in pursuing capitalism
c. The use of the printing press to democratize knowledge
d. Spanish control of the city of Granada
ANSWER: d
21. Describe the lifestyles of the people of the Paleo-Indian era.
ANSWER:
22. Discuss the social systems of the pre-Columbian native North Americans.
ANSWER:
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23. Discuss the factors that led to the formation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
ANSWER:
24. Outline the major cultural, political, and economic characteristics of West African societies on the eve of European
contact.
ANSWER:
25. Discuss the factors that led to the decline of feudalism in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Europe. What were the
most significant historical effects of the decline of feudalism?
ANSWER:
26. Discuss the power of Catholicism in Europe during the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries.
ANSWER:
27. Discuss the role of the printing press in the Reformation.
ANSWER:
28. Identify and describe the historical significance of Paleo-Indians
ANSWER:
29. Identify and describe the historical significance of sedentary existence
ANSWER:
30. Identify and describe the historical significance of matrilineal
ANSWER:
31. Identify and describe the historical significance of polytheistic
ANSWER:
32. Identify and describe the historical significance of animistic
ANSWER:
33. Identify and describe the historical significance of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy
ANSWER:
34. Identify and describe the historical significance of the Pueblo people
ANSWER:
35. Identify and describe the historical significance of Islam
ANSWER:
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36. Identify and describe the historical significance of Timbuktu
ANSWER:
37. Identify and describe the historical significance of Lower Guinea
ANSWER:
38. Identify and describe the historical significance of the Songhay Empire
ANSWER:
39. Identify and describe the historical significance of Benin
ANSWER:
40. Identify and describe the historical significance of Kongo
ANSWER:
41. Identify and describe the historical significance of feudalism
ANSWER:
42. Identify and describe the historical significance of mercantilism
ANSWER:
43. Identify and describe the historical significance of the Black Death
ANSWER:
44. Identify and describe the historical significance of the Renaissance
ANSWER:
45. Identify and describe the historical significance of humanism
ANSWER:
46. Identify and describe the historical significance of Christian humanism
ANSWER:
47. Identify and describe the historical significance of the printing press
ANSWER:
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Chapter 2 - Contact and Settlement, 1492–1660
1. Which of the following was one of the primary reasons why Europeans wished to explore lands overseas in the
fourteenth century?
a. They desired the valuable spices available in the Middle East, India, and parts of Africa.
b. They wanted to conquer territories beyond Europe.
c. The increasing population density in Europe made the acquisition of new farmland in North America a
necessity.
d. They needed to escape from conditions of hunger, disease, and death that were rampant in Europe throughout
the fourteenth century.
ANSWER: a
2. Why did the Spanish monarchy agree to fund Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492?
a. To claim new territories in present-day Bahamas and South America
b. To take control of the West African coastline
c. To find a western route to Asia
d. To gain access to enslaved Africans to work on large farms
ANSWER: c
3. What was John Cabot's contribution to the continued interest in exploration, both in the Middle and Far East, and the
New Word?
a. He was the first to circumnavigate the world.
b. He mapped the coast line of South America and the Caribbean Sea.
c. He was the first to sail the Pacific from Europe.
d. He was able to harness easterly winds, making the trip from Canada to England in two weeks.
ANSWER: d
4. What led to the Portuguese use of enslaved Africans in the early 1500s?
a. The need to support the growing sugar industry
b. The need to have items for trade with Africa
c. The need to increase military strength with additional troops
d. The need to replace enslaved people at the end of their terms of captivity
ANSWER: a
5. Why did Pope Alexander VI establish the Line of Demarcation in North America?
a. To establish closer ties between England and Spain, since those two countries would then control most of the
Americas
b. To make certain that the Spanish were able to harvest as much gold and silver as possible
c. To keep Spain and Portugal from openly fighting each other
d. To ensure that no other European nations settled in the colonies established by the English
ANSWER: c
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6. What was established by the Line of Demarcation?
a. It granted Central and North America to the French settlers.
b. It granted Brazil to Portugal.
c. It granted Florida to France.
d. It granted North America to the Dutch settlers.
ANSWER: b
7. Which of the following best describes the conquistadors?
a. Spanish noblemen who led private armies to conquer land and people in the Americas
b. The native population of specific regions in Central and North America
c. Portuguese and French explorers who first landed in North America
d. People who settled in St. Augustine, Florida, in the name of their king
ANSWER: a
8. Which of the following contributed to Hernán Cortés’s victory over the Triple Alliance in Mexico?
a. The establishment of the encomienda system in the area
b. Help from an enslaved woman and the Indigenous people of Tabasco
c. Assistance from Spanish colonists and conquistadors
d. Armies made up of enslaved people seeking their freedom
ANSWER: b
9. How did the enormous influx of silver to Spain in the mid-1500s impact Europe?
a. The system of encomienda was implemented to channel the incoming wealth for betterment of society.
b. European laborers and agricultural workers were given higher wages to keep up with rising prices.
c. Increased numbers of impoverished Europeans migrated to the Americas in search of a new life.
d. Dutch adventurers began to use eastern Virginia as a base from which to attack Spanish ships.
ANSWER: c
10. Why were the English slow to enter into exploration of the western hemisphere?
a. The country was in a state of war with France.
b. English sailors were focused on securing risk-free routes to the far East.
c. The English Crown, closely allied with Spain, was yet to attain stability.
d. Wealthy Englishmen were keener on improving the agricultural economy than participating in overseas
ventures.
ANSWER: c
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