Age of Exploration

Archaeologists believe that the first humans arrived in North America from

• Asia

• Europe

• Northern America

• South America

The exposure of a land bridge between Asia and present-day Alaska during the last Ice Age resulted in

• the introduction of new plants and animals to Asia and Europe

• the development of farming in the Americas

• the migration of people into the Americas

• the establishment of advanced cultures in North America

Before contact with Europeans, what was most important to the Native American Indian culture?

• Surplus Framing

• Trans-oceanic Trade

• Hunting and Gathering

• Trans-continental

Who were the first Europeans to settle in the Americas during the Age of Exploration?

• English

• French

• Portuguese

• Spanish

Many Native American cultures were nomadic. What does nomadic mean?

• Relying on Farming

• Hostile to Outsiders

• Planters and Farmers

• Moving from place to place

Why didn't Paleo Indians establish villages or permanent settlements?

• They did not have the necessary natural resources.

• They did not know how to construct permanent dwellings.

• They were not able to locate an area suitable for settlement.

• They had to hunt game animals because they did not know how to farm.

The precious metals, such as silver and gold, discovered by Europeans in the "New World"

• did not make a significant global economic impact.

• allowed Portugal to become a dominant world power.

• were used primarily to purchase goods from China and India

• were not discovered until the colonies achieved independence.

The desire for spices and other trade goods was a direct cause of

• American expansion into Africa and Asia.

• Asian expansion into the Americas and Europe.

• African exploration of the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

• European exploration and colonization of the Americas, Africa, and Asia.

The MOST LIKELY impact of the Columbian Exchange was the transfer of

• technology, religion, and slaves from Asia to Africa.

• livestock, disease, and sugarcane from Europe to Asia.

• diseases, ideas, and livestock from Europe to the Americas.

• technology, disease, and sugarcane from the Americas to Europe.

After European settlers first arrived in America, they cooperated with the Native American Indians MAINLY by doing which of these?

• sharing land

• trading goods

• building villages

• fighting enemies