Multiple Choice Chapter 01 Self-Quiz 1

. The ancestors of most Native groups had arrived in North America by

15,000 BCE.

100 CE.

11,000 BCE.

1492.

. The first natives of North America to develop cemeteries were

Native Floridians.

Mississippians.

Iroquois.

No North American natives had cemeteries>

. Indians, before contact with Europeans, did not suffer from diseases Europeans did because

Indians had superior knowledge of medicinal remedies.

Europeans often ritually infected one another with smallpox and other diseases.

Indians relied on wild animal protein and had few domesticated animals.

Indians frequently destroyed entire villages upon any hint of illness.

. No North American city surpassed to size of Cahokia until

Philadelphia in 1760.

Boston in 1650.

New York City in 1890.

Jamestown in 1609.

. The Mexica rose to power by

dominating their neighbors and collecting tribute from them.

allying with the first Spaniards to land on the continent.

Using female labor to intensively farm corn.

sending traders and emissaries to Indian communities throughout the Americas.

. Western Europeans wanted to expand because

they wanted to get rid of the influence of Islam.

they were being stressed by populations to the north.

the exhaustion of soils led them to seek subsistence elsewhere.

they wanted to circumvent Mediterranean monopolies on goods from Africa and Asia.

. One of the reasons the Portuguese mapped and explored the African coast was

because Italian mapmakers had refused to provide them with accurate maps.

to gain direct access to West African gold.

to search for the fabled fountain of youth.

a desire to conquer the Muslim kingdom of Ethiopia.

. Before he sailed in 1492, Columbus

had little experience beyond Spain and Italy.

had studied geography, particularly the work of Ptolemy.

had supervised the colonization of one of the Madeira islands.

had visited China.

. Giovanni Caboto's voyages to the Americas

ended in failure when he was eaten by Carib Indians.

were the only ones backed by the English for a century.

returned with gold, silks, and spices.

was the next successful crossing of the Atlantic after 1492.

. During Columbus's second trip to Espanola he

brought cattle and pigs that devastated the island environment.

began enslaving the Taino people.

brought African slaves to the Caribbean.

challenged Portuguese power in the Caribbean.

. In conquering the Mexica, Cortes was aided by

a solar eclipse that made the Mexica believe he was a god.

an alliance with the Tlaxcala.

Spanish cannons.

his extensive knowledge of the surrounding countryside.

. Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo's exploration of the California coast

proved that California was not an island.

resisted Asian inroads into the Pacific seal and ginseng trade.

established outposts at Monterey and Santa Barbara.

laid the foundation for future trade and settlement.

. The first European settlement on what is today the mainland United States was

San Miguel de Gualdape.

Jamestown.

St. Augustine.

Santa Fe.

. Why did England and Spain become enemies in the 1550s?

religious conflicts

Spanish privateer attacks

a struggle over the Atlantic slave trade

the marriage of King Henry's daughter Mary to Philip, the next king of Spain

. What did the Spanish experience at St. Augustine indicate?

The Spanish enslavement of Indians would fail on the continent.

There was no gold or silver to be found in Florida.

European colonization of North America would continue.

Spanish colonists would choose to die rather than eat cassava.

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