History Basics and Early America

This map (created around year 1500) is an example of a...

• primary source

• secondary source

• artifact

• history

In order to know if a source is primary or secondary, historians need to ask...

• When was it made?

• Did the person who made it intend for it to be seen?

• Was the person who made it at the event we are studying?

• Was the person who made it important?

Which one of these is a secondary source?

• an ancient clay pot

• the diary of a soldier

• a textbook

• fossils and dinosaur bones

All of these are examples of artifacts except...

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Which of these is not an example of someone's culture?

• how old they are

• what they like to eat

• how they like to dress

• how they worship

This picture shows the...

• Spanish Inquisition

• Paleolithic Era

• Columbian Exchange

• Agrarian Revolution

Christopher Columbus is remembered for...

• being the first to sail to the Americas in 1492

• discovering how to grow potatoes

• inventing the compass

• being the first president of the US

As the result of the Columbian Exchange...

• Native American populations went down and European populations went up

• Populations in Europe and America went way up

• Native American populations went up and European populations went down

• Population stayed about the same

The Columbian Exchange increased European population because...

• Explorers brought lots of people over from America

• Explorers brought back potatoes and corn, which are good sources of food

• Explorers brought back new types of medicine

• Explorers brought back horses which helped people travel and farm

Native Americans are sometimes called "Indians" because...

• their ancestors were from India

• when Christopher Columbus landed in America, he thought he was in India

• "Indian" is the word for "people" in some native languages

• They traveled up from India