Form 4 Hist Quiz 1

Which of the following BEST explains why the indigenous peoples migrated to the Americas from their original homelands?

• They were following herds of deer which they hunted

• They were searching for grasslands

• They were driven out of their homelands by warlike people.

• Their population had grown too large to survive in their homelands.

The indigenous peoples who crossed into the Americas were viewed as

• Pastoralists

• Semi-nomadic

• Nomadic

• Hunter-farmers

Some scholars have suggested that the first colonisers of the Americas arrived about

• 7 000 years ago

• 25 000 years ago

• 10 000 years ago

• None of the above

The indigenous people who first crossed into the Americas moved in

• A northerly direction

• A easterly direction

• A southerly direction

• None of the above

The colonisation of the Caribbean would have been most likely undertaken from

• North America and Central America

• Central America alone

• Meso-America

• South America and Central America

The remains found at Banwari Trace are dated to be about

• 7 000 years old

• 5 000 years old

• 15 000 years old

• None of the above

The Spanish would have encountered these groups of indigenous people in the Caribbean

• Aztec, Maya and Taino

• Maya, Kalinago and Inca

• Kalinago, Maya and Taino

• None of the above

The kalinagos were labeled as cannibals by the Spaniards because

• They ate human flesh

• They practised canniablism

• They resisted colonisation

• The kalinagos wanted people to believe that.

The kalinagos settled the lands of

• Central America

• The Greater Antilles

• the Bahamas

• None of the above

In which of the territories could Tainos be found?

• Belize

• Bahamas

• Trinidad

• Mexico