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Give Me Liberty-An American History-
Chapter 1 Exam Study Guide.
1492 - answer✔In what year did Christopher Columbus make landfall in the Western Indian
Islands? (1)
7.7 million people - answer✔Of the approximately 10 million men, women, and children who
crossed from the old world to the new between 1492 in 1820, the vast majority, about this many
million people, were African slaves? (2)
America - answer✔Too many European settlers, ____________________ offered a far greater
chance to own land and worship as they please than existed in Europe, with its rigid, unequal
social order and official churches? (2)
Native Americans and Africans - answer✔These two people's consisted of numerous groups with
their own languages and cultures. They were as likely to fight one another as to unite against the
European newcomers? (3)
Bering Strait - answer✔Most Native Americans were descended from bands of hunters and
fishers who had crossed the ________________________ via a land bridge at various times
between 15,000 and 60,000 years ago. (3)
Cities, roads, irrigation systems, extensive trade networks, and large structures. - answer✔North
and South America were hardly an empty wilderness when Europeans arrived. The hemisphere
contained
_______________,____________,_____________________________,____________________
______________,______________________. (3)
The Aztec Empire/Tenochtitlan - answer✔At the time Europeans discovered the Americas, this
Empire ruled Mexico. The capital of the empire named
___________________________________ had a population close to 250,000. It was one of the
world's largest cities. (4)
Tenochtitlan - answer✔This cities great temple, splendid royal palace, and central market
comparable to that of European capitals made the city seem "like an enchanted vision,"
according to one of the first Europeans to encounter it? (4)
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Mexico - answer✔The Aztec empire was located and what now present day county? (4)
Peru - answer✔The Inca kingdom was located in what modern-day country? (4)
Inca Kingdom - answer✔South of the Aztec Empire, lied this kingdom, With a population of
perhaps 12 million. It was linked by a complex system of roads and bridges that extended 2000
miles along the Andes Mountains chain? (4)
North American Indians - answer✔This group of people lacked the technologies Europeans had
mastered, such as metal tools and machines, gunpowder, and the scientific knowledge necessary
for long-distance navigation? (5)
Mexico - answer✔No society north of this present-day country had achieve literacy. They also
lacked wheeled vehicles, since they had no domestic animals like horses or oxen to pull them?
(5)
Indian societies - answer✔This group of people had perfected techniques of farming, hunting,
and fishing, develop structures of political power religious belief, and engage in far-reaching
networks of trading communication? (5)
The Mississippi River/Louisiana - answer✔Run 3500 years ago, before Egyptians built the
pyramids, Native Americans constructed a large community centered on a series of giant
semicircular mounds on a bluff overlooking this river in this present day state? (6)
Poverty Point - answer✔This area was a commercial and governmental center whose residence
establish trade routes throughout the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys? (6)
Hopi & Zuni - answer✔In the air northeastern area of present-day Arizona, these two tribes and
their ancestors engaged and settled village life for over 3000 years. During the peak of the
region's culture, between the years 900 and 1200, these peoples built great plan towns with large
multiple family dwellings and local canyons, constructed dams and canals together industry
water, and conducted trade with groups as far away as Central Mexico in the Mississippi River
Valley.? (6)
Pueblo Bonita/1880's - answer✔The largest of the Hoppe in Zuni structures, named
__________________________ in New Mexico, stood five stories high and had more than 600
rooms. It wouldn't be until this decade that a comparably sized dwelling would be constructed in
the United States? (6)
Pueblo Indians - answer✔These Indians were nicknamed ____________________________ by
Spanish explorers Because they lived in small villages, when the Spanish first encountered them
in the 16th century. They perfected the techniques of desert farming, complete with irrigation
systems to provide water for crops of corn, beans, and cotton? (6)
The Spanish - answer✔Who brought horses to North America? (7)
