Chapter 1 The American Pageant
Some history stuffs
- 1.How long ago did the recording of western history begin?
- A.
4000 years ago
- B.
5000 years ago
- C.
6000 years ago
- D.
7000 years ago
- E.
45 thousand years ago
- 2.European explorers stumbled on the American continents years ago.
- A.
400
- B.
450
- C.
500
- D.
525
- E.
600
- 3.Some years ago a single super continent contained all the world's dry land.
- A.
200 million
- B.
250 million
- C.
225 million
- D.
210 million
- E.
217 million
- 4.The Rockies the Sierra Nevada, the Cascades, and the Coast Range are truly __________ mountains.
- 5.What happened some 35,000 years ago that accounts for the first human inhabitance of North America?
- A.
A Land bridge was formed over the Ice Age
- B.
Asian hunters traveled on rafts from modern day Russia to Alaska.
- C.
People from the South America's migrated north, moving with the herd of animals.
- 6.What was the staple crop of the hunter-gatherers in highland mexico?
- A.
Rice
- B.
Beans
- C.
Corn
- D.
Wheat
- 7.When corn planting reached present day Southwestern America in 1200 B.C, it helped to create what culture?
- A.
Puritan culture
- B.
Trade between other Natives
- C.
Pueblo culture
- D.
American culture
- 8.What does Pueblo mean?
- A.
It means Village in spanish
- B.
It means Cities in spanish
- C.
It means Public in spanish
- D.
It means Home in spanish
- 9.What is"Three sister" farming and what three plants allowed "three-sister" farming to be possible?
- 10.What was the reason for the small effect the Native American's had in the appearance of America?
- A.
They did not like to destroy anything
- B.
There were only 4 million Native Americans scattered throughout the vast continent in the year of 1492.
- C.
They replanted.
- 11.Who were the two indirect discoverers of the "New World" ?
- A.
Romans, and Asian explorers
- B.
Muslims, and Conquistadors
- C.
,Scandinavians and Christian Crusaders
- 12.The European consumer's and distributors were eager to find a less expensive route to the riches of ________, led to the European discovery of _______.
- A.
Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa.
- B.
India, America
- C.
The Mediterranean, Northern Africa
- 13.Before the Europeans, who were trading slaves?
- A.
Muslims and Americans
- B.
Arabians and Africans
- C.
Portuguese, Muslims
- 14.Who rounded the "Dark Continent" in 1488?
- A.
Bartholomeu Dias
- B.
Vasco de Gama
- C.
Marco Polo
- D.
Christopher Columbus
- 15.Who was the first to reach India by rounding Africa?
- A.
Bartholomeu Dias
- B.
Vasco de Gama
- C.
Marco Polo
- D.
Christopher Columbus
- 16.The kingdom of Spain became united in the late fifteenth century by the by the marriage of?
- A.
Christianity and Hinduism
- B.
Ridolfo di Domenico and Ghirlandaio Dima
- C.
Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabelle of Castile.
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