Deck 1: Three Societies on the Verge of Contact

Question 1

Which of the following is a true statement about the pre-Columbian era?

A)During this era, people primarily followed herds of animals as their livelihood was based on hunting and gathering.
B)People during this era were able to endure in a single location long enough to create complex, hierarchical societies.
C)This was the era that began 15,000 years ago and ended 10,000 years ago.
D)During this era, which began 12, 000 years ago, thousands of young adults from Asia came to North America, crossing Alaska.
E)People during this era were unaware of the possibility of a sedentary existence.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Identify an accurate statement about the Mississippians.

A)Their civilization was formed after the weakening and dissolution of the Anasazi civilization.
B)They were the earliest settlers of North America who were of European origin.
C)They built fourteen "great houses" in the Chaco Canyon as a testament to the grandness of their civilization.
D)Their civilization disintegrated around 1100 C.E.
E)They developed an accurate calendar and built a pyramid.

Answer 2

E

Question 3

The Archaic era marked the end of sedentary existence in Native North America.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The Kongo Empire took control of Timbuktu when the kingdom of Mali collapsed.

Question 5

Religiously, most of the Africans in Lower Guinea did not embrace Islam.

Question 6

Until the twelfth century, most of Europe was an economic and intellectual backwater in comparison to China.

Question 7

Lower Guinea was the home of the majority of Africans who came to America.

Question 8

By the late 1400s, North America was home to numerous civilizations and tribes, some of which were sizeable and dominated large swaths of land.

Question 9

What was the significance of the discovery of Kennewick man?

A)It confirmed that 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 indicated that the first settlers came to North America for fame, fortune, and freedom.
E)It confirmed the Beringia theory, which stated that the first settlers of North America came following herds of woolly mammoths.

Question 10

The _____ era was the era beginning about 10,000 years ago and lasting until about 2,500 years ago; it was characterized by increased agricultural development.

A)pre-Columbian
B)Archaic
C)Renaissance
D)Victorian
E)Paleolithic

Question 11

The kingdom of Ghana did not have any extensive trade routes.

Question 12

The first settlers of the Americas seem to have appeared during the Paleo-Indian era.

Question 13

Which of the following is a true statement 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 sedentary existence in American prehistory.
C)It was characterized by the creation of complex social hierarchical structures.
D)It began when Columbus first landed in North America.
E)It marked the end of the pre-Columbian era.

Question 14

The _____ is the North American era lasting from 500 B.C.E. to 1492 C.E.

A)Neolithic era
B)Renaissance
C)Paleolithic era
D)pre-Columbian era
E)Paleo-Indian era

Question 15

Which of the following is a true statement about the Anasazi?

A)They were known for their step-tiered temples and dominated the Yucatan Peninsula.
B)They were the earliest settlers of North America who were of European origin.
C)They built fourteen "great houses" in the Chaco Canyon as a testament to the grandness of their civilization.
D)They ruled central Mexico from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries.
E)They dominated southern Guatemala and the Yucatan Peninsula from the fifth to the eighth centuries.

Question 16

The Pueblo people were the southwestern conglomeration of tribes who lived in today's Mexico and Arizona.

Question 17

The _____ era was the era beginning about 15,000 years ago and ending about 10,000 years ago, characterized by initial North American settlement.

A)pre-Columbian
B)Archaic
C)Renaissance
D)Paleolithic
E)Paleo-Indian

Question 18

The _____ were the first people to settle in North America, roughly 10,000 to 15,000 years ago.

A)Paleo-Indians
B)Paleolithic hominins
C)Australopithecines
D)Neolithic humanoids
E)Neanderthals

Question 19

Which of the following is a true statement about the Incas?

A)They were the earliest settlers of North America who came from Europe.
B)They lived in the western coast of South America and formed the largest Indian civilization in the pre-Columbian era.
C)They built step-tiered temples and dominated southern Guatemala and the Yucatan Peninsula from the fifth to the eighth centuries.
D)They ruled central Mexico from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries.
E)They built fourteen "great houses" in the Chaco Canyon as a testament to the grandness of their civilization.

Question 20

Socially, most Europeans in the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries still lived in an agrarian society on remnants of the feudal system.

Question 21

A(n)_____ system is a belief system consisting of belief in many deities.

A)atheistic
B)monotheistic
C)polytheistic
D)pantheistic
E)transcendentalist

Question 22

Which of the following tribes was NOT a northeastern tribe?

A)The Wampanoag
B)The Massachusetts
C)The Narragansett
D)The Mohawk
E)The Cheyenne

Question 23

The _____ was the greatest portion of Mali after that kingdom collapsed around 1500; this empire controlled Timbuktu.

A)Kongo Empire
B)Ghana Empire
C)Songhay Empire
D)Benin Empire
E)Wampum Empire

Question 24

In the European feudal system, a _____ was a laborer living and working on an estate; such estates were ruled by members of the upper class.

A)manor
B)vassal
C)serf
D)wampum
E)nobleman

Question 25

_____ was an African empire on the Malian coast.

A)Beringia
B)Aztec
C)Mohawk
D)Benin
E)Cheyenne

Question 26

Which of the following was true of Lower Guinea?

A)It was the region of the kingdom of Mali in which Islam spread more rapidly than in the rest of the kingdom.
B)It was the region that encompassed Timbuktu, the principal city of the kingdom of Mali.
C)It was one of the regions of the kingdom of Mali in which family descent was typically patrilineal.
D)It was the part of the kingdom of Mali in which people converted to Catholicism during the thirteenth century.
E)It was the region in which Africans possessed slaves, usually war captives or debtors.

Question 27

Which of the following was true of the kingdom of Mali?

A)It was enveloped by the kingdom of Ghana in the thirteenth century.
B)It collapsed around 1500 just as sustained contact with Europeans was beginning.
C)It was a predominantly Catholic civilization in the early thirteenth century.
D)Islam spread most rapidly in the southernmost part of Mali.
E)Timbuktu, the principal city of Mali, was taken over by the Kongo Empire when Mali disintegrated.

Question 28

Identify an accurate statement about Lower Guinea.

A)Religiously, most Africans in Lower Guinea did not embrace Islam.
B)Lower Guinea was one of the African regions in which slavery and slave trade were absent.
C)The people living in Lower Guinea were dependent on hunting and gathering rather than agriculture.
D)Family descent in Lower Guinea was typically patrilineal.
E)Lower Guinea did not have hierarchical social structures.

Question 29

_____ is the modern religion that was probably the most powerful and vibrant religion in the world during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; its followers are known as Muslims.

A)Wicca
B)Jainism
C)Animism
D)Islam
E)Judaism

Question 30

A(n)_____ system is a belief system consisting of the belief that supernatural beings, or souls, inhibit all objects and govern their actions.

A)atheistic
B)monotheist
C)polytheistic
D)animistic
E)transcendentalist

Question 31

_____ was the principal city of the kingdom of Mali and was the cultural capital of Africa in the thirteenth century.

A)Mohawk
B)Aztec
C)Timbuktu
D)Cheyenne
E)Wampum

Question 32

The kingdom of _____ ruled West Africa from the eighth to the thirteenth centuries, beginning a tradition of expansive trade throughout western Africa.

A)Cahokia
B)Aztec
C)Mohawk
D)Wampum
E)Ghana

Question 33

Which of the following is a true statement about the feudal system that was prevalent in Medieval Europe?

A)The serfs were people who were given the ownership of small portions of a large agricultural estate.
B)The vassal had authority over all a land's inhabitants.
C)The servants who worked for the vassals could act autonomously.
D)The serfs who worked on manors came from different professions and maintained their professions.
E)The Catholic Church did not have any control over agricultural estates.

Question 34

Most tribes of North America were based on a _____, in which a tribe was divided into a number of large family groups.

A)clan system
B)feudal system
C)patriarchal system
D)monotheist system
E)secular system

Question 35

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 acceptance of social hierarchies and the subordination of serfs
E)The increased control of the Catholic Church over agricultural estates

Question 36

A(n)_____ arrangement is a family arrangement in which children typically follow the clan of their mother and married men move into the clan of their wives.

A)animistic
B)feudal
C)polytheist
D)patriarchal
E)matrilineal

Question 37

_____ was a flourishing Islamic kingdom that enveloped the kingdom of Ghana by the thirteenth century.

A)Cahokia
B)Aztec
C)Mohawk
D)Cheyenne
E)Mali

Question 38

The Iroquois Confederacy was formed by:

A)southeastern Native American tribes.
B)northeastern tribes to counter the fear of attack.
C)the Prairies to restrict trade activities within the tribes.
D)the Indians of the High Plains.
E)European settlers in North America.

Question 39

The _____ was an intellectual and artistic reconnection to the age of Greco-Roman antiquity; it started in the fourteenth century and lionized the individual.

A)Renaissance
B)Pantheism
C)Crusades
D)mercantilism
E)feudal revolution

Question 40

A _____ was an agricultural estate on European land operated by a lord and worked by peasants in exchange for protection and sustenance.

A)Wampum
B)serf
C)Roanoke
D)clan system
E)manor

Question 41

Identify a factor that led to the development of Christian humanism in sixteenth century Europe.

A)The increased acceptance of the Roman Catholicism
B)The increased acceptance of the feudal system in Europe
C)The decision of the Church to promote multiple religions across Europe
D)The decline of the Reformation movement
E)The consolidation of monarchial powers

Question 42

The _____ was the movement that challenged the Catholic Church to return to its unornamented origins.

A)Renaissance
B)black death
C)mercantilism
D)Protestant Reformation
E)Catholic humanism

Question 43

Discuss the factors that led to the formation of the Iroquois Confederacy.

Question 44

The _____ was the bubonic plague that started to spread in 1346 and eventually killed one-third of all Europeans.

A)Holocaust
B)Pequot War
C)Renaissance
D)Black Death
E)Crusades

Question 45

Explain the importance of the Archaic era.

Question 46

The Hundred Years' War was a war waged between _________ in the fourteenth century.
A. the African tribes
B. the kingdom of Mali and European traders
C. France and England
D. China and North America

Question 47

_____ is the theory that a nation or state's prosperity was determined by the total volume of its trade.

A)Animism
B)Pantheism
C)Mercantilism
D)Renaissance
E)Atheism

Question 48

The _____ consisted of a series of campaigns in which Europeans marched to the Middle East in an effort to seize the Holy Land of Jerusalem, which at the time was controlled by Muslims.

A)Reformation
B)Hundred Years' War
C)Renaissance
D)Black Death
E)Crusades

Question 49

_________ were the beads made of polished shell that were used as currency for trading goods among North American tribes.
A. Wampum
B. Benin
C. Taos
D. Hopi

Question 50

Which of the following is a true statement 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.
E)It upheld the righteousness of Roman Catholicism.

Question 51

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 decision of the Church to promote multiple religions
D)The decline of the Reformation movement
E)The disintegration of monarchial powers

Question 52

_____ was a renewed belief in the importance of the individual as opposed to the institution of the Church; it was characterized by optimism, curiosity, and an emphasis on naturalism.

A)Roman Catholicism
B)Polytheism
C)Mercantilism
D)Pantheism
E)Christian humanism

Question 53

Describe the Anasazi civilization of the pre-Columbian era.

Question 54

Describe the lifestyles of the people of the Paleo-Indian era.

Question 55

_________ was an African empire on the Malian coast.
A. Cheyenne
B. Kongo
C. Taos
D. Hopi

Question 56

_________ was one of the most important leaders of the Protestant Reformation.
A. Afonso I
B. Adam Smith
C. Winston Churchill
D. Martin Luther

Question 57

_____ was the central religious force in western Europe and the sole institution with moral authority and political power over all of medieval Europe.

A)Renaissance
B)Pantheism
C)Islam
D)Mercantilism
E)Catholicism

Question 58

Discuss the social systems of the pre-Columbian native North Americans.

Question 59

_________ was the practice of popes using their authority to limit the time a person's soul spent in purgatory, in exchange for cash.
A. Christian humanism
B. Pantheism
C. The selling of indulgences
D. The Protestant Reformation

Question 60

The Reformation:

A)solidified the unity of Catholic authority over Europe.
B)hastened the development of nationalism.
C)demanded a Church with more hierarchies.
D)upheld the importance rituals such as the Mass and confessions.
E)suppressed the growth of new religious traditions.

Question 61

Discuss the Renaissance in Europe in the late fourteenth century.

Question 62

Discuss the concept of feudalism in medieval Europe.

Question 63

Discuss the power of Catholicism in medieval Europe.

Question 64

Discuss the factors that led to the development of Christian humanism.

Question 65

Discuss the collapse of the kingdom of Mali in Africa.

Question 66

Discuss the role of the printing press in the Reformation.

Question 67

Discuss the Protestant Reformation.

Question 68

Explain the significance of the Reformation.

Question 69

Describe the kingdom of Ghana in West Africa.

Question 70

Discuss the political and social system in Europe in 1492.