History 1301, Exam 1 Review

When the Natives developed horticulture, one of the disadvantages was that the crops they planted would deplete the soil of its nutrients.

• True

• False

Prior to 1400, Europe couldn’t expand and explore the wider world because the Muslims were the dominant power and Europe was filled with internal wars.

• True

• False

Natural History is a book written by _________, which described the further world as a fantastical place filled with mythical creatures such as dragons and griffins.

• Vespucci

• Vasco de Gama

• Pliny the Elder

• Pizarro

The term ________ refers to the reconquering of the Iberian Peninsula by Europe.

• reconquista

• cabot

• cabral

• animism

In 1487, ________ became the first European to round the tip of Africa at the Cape of Good Hope.

• de Coronado

• Dias

• Drake

• Cabeza de Vaca

Christopher Columbus was a skilled navigator who believed he made contact with the Far East when in reality he landed in North America.

• True

• False

Columbus landed in Hispaniola and established the plantation system there with the _______, the natives of the island, as laborers.

• French

• Algonquain

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Tainos

In 1500, _________ established Portugal's claim to Brazil because it turned out to be east of the line established in the Treaty of Tordesillas.

• Cabral

• Cabot

• England

• Vespucci

_________ is defined as one environment taking over the other and was done by the Europeans when they colonized the New World.

• Ecological imperialism

• Iroquois League

• Spiritual enlightenment

• revivalism

Cortes was able to defeat the Aztecs quickly because:

• the Aztecs were a weak civilization

• disease had weakened the Aztec warriors and the Spanish came up with a great strategy to take the city

• the Spanish had more soldiers than the Aztecs

• Cortes convinced Moctezuma to convert to Christianity and become part of Spain