UNHS - US History - Selfcheck 1

Which Native American group practiced slash-and-burn agriculture?

• Inuit

• Adena and Hopewell

• Eastern Woodlands Tribes

• Olmec

Which Native American group was a Mesoamerican culture?

• the Cherokee

• the Algonquin

• the Iroquois

• the Aztec

The manor system was based on

• mercantilism

• Islam

• obligations between landowners and peasants

• the trading of unfinished supplies for finished products

What resources did Ghana have to trade?

• gold and salt

• lumber and fish

• furs and stone

• horses and bees

The kings of Mail were

• Muslims

• Christians

• Incas

• Aztecs

The largest of the West African kingdoms was

• Benin

• Kongo

• Songhai

• Mali

How did the Reconquista encourage European exploration?

• Muslims felt a new desire to spread their faith

• Christians felt a new desire to spread their faith

• It divided the New World between Spain and Portugal

• It gave Spain access to Ghana’s gold reserves

How did mercantilism encourage European exploration?

• It transferred control of the economy to private landowners

• It liberated the peasants, who wanted land for their own farms

• It limited the amount of land an individual could own in Europe

• It created a desire for new trade routes that would keep wealth within a state

How did technology encourage European exploration?

• Improvements in maps and shipbuilding allowed sailors to make longer voyages

• New weapons allowed Portugal to defeat its enemies, Benin and Kongo

• Christopher Columbus wanted to build a new Stonehenge at Hispaniola

• Prince Henry the Navigator wanted to prove that the world was flat

What was a tragic but unintended result of Columbus’s voyages?

• the introduction of slavery to the Americas

• war between the kingdoms of Aragon and Castille

• war between Mali and Songhai

• the spread of diseases to Native Americans