AMH 2010 Exam I Questions and Answers With Verified Solutions 2025
Bering Strait - ✔✔A strait of the Pacific between Russia and the U.S; allows for people from Asia, Siberia
to travel to Western Civilization
Paleo-Indians - ✔✔All very similar; nomadic hunters that travel all over North America.
Clovis Point - ✔✔Used by Paleo-Indians to hunt large-game animals such as giant sloths and mammoths.
Archaic Indians - ✔✔Hunting and gathering peoples who descended from Paleo-Indians and dominated
the Americas from 8,000 BCE - 1,000 BCE.
Pacific Coast Culture (California) - ✔✔- Most diverse and populated of all 5 cultures, consisting of 500+
tribes speaking 90+ languages.
- PERMANENT culture; uses cedar wood to build structures
- ARTS: totem poles, wood carving
Great Basin Culture - ✔✔- Hunter-GATHERERS
- Foraging for food: berries, rabbits, rodents
- Nomadic culture
Great Plains Culture - ✔✔- HUNTER-Gatherers
- Nomadic, hunt Bison/Buffalo
- Bow & Arrow revolutionizes hunting
Southwestern Culture (New Mexico, Arizona, etc.) - ✔✔- Collect quinoa, cactus fruit, lizards, etc.
- Nomadic
- Neolithic Revolution (AGRICULTURE) ~ 2,000 BCE
- Permanent (farmers)
,Eastern Woodlands Culture - ✔✔- Food source: deer
- Captured deer by FIRE, which clears out brush and helps lure them in
Algonquian - ✔✔- Live along Atlantic (VA-ME)
- Permanent = hunt/harvest fish
Iroquoian - ✔✔- Inland, West of Appalachians
- Permanent
- Matriarchal
- Agriculture
Iroquois Confederacy (League of 5/6 Nations) - ✔✔I. Seneca
II. Onadaga
III. Cayuga
IV. Mohawk
V. Oneida
(Added later on) VI. Tuscarora
Muskogean - ✔✔- Worshiped the sun
- Very diverse, different types of people
Eric Thorvaldsson - ✔✔- Fiery temper like father Thorvald
- Banished from Iceland in 982 AD
- Moves to Greenland with his sons, Leif Ericsson and Thorvald (Jr.)
Leif Ericsson - ✔✔- Viking, known as first explorer in New World
- Explores New Finland, Canada, Maine
Vinland - ✔✔- Established by Leif Ericsson
, - Leif kills chief of Native Tribe
- VINLAND gone in 1014
Portuguese Exploration - ✔✔- Portugal and Spain are rivals, they get products from other countries
through sailing
- Lots of WEALTH on these ships, so they'd get pirated
- Squadrons put guns (cannons) on ships
Caravel - ✔✔Small, highly maneuverable sailing ship w/ triangular sails. Portuguese.
Prince Henry - ✔✔- Portuguese
- Starts sponsoring exploration in 1415 in Africa (until 1460)
- Obsessed with "gold"
- Sent explorers to find "river of gold"
- Instead, enslaves African population and makes them their "gold"
Treaty of Tordesillas - ✔✔Treaty negotiated in 1914 that separated land in the New World; Spain took
West and Portugal took East.
Bartolomeu Dias - ✔✔1488: Sailed around the Cape of Good Hope at the Southern tip of Africa, reaching
the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic.
Vasco de Gama - ✔✔1498: Commanded the first Portuguese fleet to sail India. Portugal capitalized on
the commercial potential of his new sea route.
- New sea route eliminated overland travel and allowed merchants to charge much lower prices for
goods imported.
The Reconquista - ✔✔Centuries-long drive to expel Muslims from Iberian Peninsula undertaken by
Christian kingdoms of Spain and Portugal.
Christopher Columbus - ✔✔1492:
Bering Strait - ✔✔A strait of the Pacific between Russia and the U.S; allows for people from Asia, Siberia
to travel to Western Civilization
Paleo-Indians - ✔✔All very similar; nomadic hunters that travel all over North America.
Clovis Point - ✔✔Used by Paleo-Indians to hunt large-game animals such as giant sloths and mammoths.
Archaic Indians - ✔✔Hunting and gathering peoples who descended from Paleo-Indians and dominated
the Americas from 8,000 BCE - 1,000 BCE.
Pacific Coast Culture (California) - ✔✔- Most diverse and populated of all 5 cultures, consisting of 500+
tribes speaking 90+ languages.
- PERMANENT culture; uses cedar wood to build structures
- ARTS: totem poles, wood carving
Great Basin Culture - ✔✔- Hunter-GATHERERS
- Foraging for food: berries, rabbits, rodents
- Nomadic culture
Great Plains Culture - ✔✔- HUNTER-Gatherers
- Nomadic, hunt Bison/Buffalo
- Bow & Arrow revolutionizes hunting
Southwestern Culture (New Mexico, Arizona, etc.) - ✔✔- Collect quinoa, cactus fruit, lizards, etc.
- Nomadic
- Neolithic Revolution (AGRICULTURE) ~ 2,000 BCE
- Permanent (farmers)
,Eastern Woodlands Culture - ✔✔- Food source: deer
- Captured deer by FIRE, which clears out brush and helps lure them in
Algonquian - ✔✔- Live along Atlantic (VA-ME)
- Permanent = hunt/harvest fish
Iroquoian - ✔✔- Inland, West of Appalachians
- Permanent
- Matriarchal
- Agriculture
Iroquois Confederacy (League of 5/6 Nations) - ✔✔I. Seneca
II. Onadaga
III. Cayuga
IV. Mohawk
V. Oneida
(Added later on) VI. Tuscarora
Muskogean - ✔✔- Worshiped the sun
- Very diverse, different types of people
Eric Thorvaldsson - ✔✔- Fiery temper like father Thorvald
- Banished from Iceland in 982 AD
- Moves to Greenland with his sons, Leif Ericsson and Thorvald (Jr.)
Leif Ericsson - ✔✔- Viking, known as first explorer in New World
- Explores New Finland, Canada, Maine
Vinland - ✔✔- Established by Leif Ericsson
, - Leif kills chief of Native Tribe
- VINLAND gone in 1014
Portuguese Exploration - ✔✔- Portugal and Spain are rivals, they get products from other countries
through sailing
- Lots of WEALTH on these ships, so they'd get pirated
- Squadrons put guns (cannons) on ships
Caravel - ✔✔Small, highly maneuverable sailing ship w/ triangular sails. Portuguese.
Prince Henry - ✔✔- Portuguese
- Starts sponsoring exploration in 1415 in Africa (until 1460)
- Obsessed with "gold"
- Sent explorers to find "river of gold"
- Instead, enslaves African population and makes them their "gold"
Treaty of Tordesillas - ✔✔Treaty negotiated in 1914 that separated land in the New World; Spain took
West and Portugal took East.
Bartolomeu Dias - ✔✔1488: Sailed around the Cape of Good Hope at the Southern tip of Africa, reaching
the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic.
Vasco de Gama - ✔✔1498: Commanded the first Portuguese fleet to sail India. Portugal capitalized on
the commercial potential of his new sea route.
- New sea route eliminated overland travel and allowed merchants to charge much lower prices for
goods imported.
The Reconquista - ✔✔Centuries-long drive to expel Muslims from Iberian Peninsula undertaken by
Christian kingdoms of Spain and Portugal.
Christopher Columbus - ✔✔1492:
