Norton AMH Chapter 1. Old Worlds and New

The inhabitants of what Native American city near present-day St. Louis were known for building burial mounds. What does this show about those Native Americans?

• This group has organized social structures in place to build cities.

• There is no organization in this civilization

• This group has wealth developed form their local artist.

• This group has been able to conquer a large area.

Most Native American societies were individual groups before Europeans arrived; however, five Iroquois peoples did unite and formed a Great League of Peace. Identify the most likely reasons the five nations of the Iroquois united under one confederacy.

• to combine their fighting forces to defeat other Native groups in the area

• to form an alliance against European invasion

• to more effectively isolate and quarantine themselves from European diseases

• to coordinate diplomatic relations between members of the league

Identify the statement that best describes religious freedom in seventeenth-century Europe.

• Male heads of the household chose which religious faith their families and servants would follow.

• Only persons of high rank could choose a religious faith different from the one chosen by the king.

• People in seventeenth-century Europe were legally obligated to follow the faith of the kingdom and had no private choice in the matter.

  
  
  

• Individuals could choose their own religious faith and could not be

  persecuted if that faith was different from the religion chosen by the king.

   

Organize these options into the right categories. European ideas of freedom were very different than Native ideas of freedom. Identify whether the following characteristics applied to Native or European societies’ definitions of freedom.

Groups:

(a) Native Americans

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(b) Europeans

• Families, towns, or groups could hold rights to use land, but they could not “own” it.

• Individual freedom was prioritized over group needs.

• Freedom was associated with individual ownership of property.

• Ideas of freedom included religious choice.

• Family ties and kinship were prioritized over individual needs.

Identify why Christopher Columbus most likely brought ten inhabitants from the island of Hispaniola back to Spain.

• He brought them back for conversion to Christianity.

• He wanted to demonstrate the savagery of people who needed to be

  dominated.

• He found them to be great company with their miraculous stories.

Organize these options into the right categories. Identify the statements that describe the encounters between the peoples of the Americas and the Europeans.

Groups:

(a) Correct Answers

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(b) Incorrect Answers

• Natives gained great wealth from their encounters with Europeans.

• Europeans sought wealth in the New World, initially relying on Natives for either trade or labor

• The Printing Press made it possible for Europeans to share information and follow in each other.

• Europeans competed with each other, trying to amass as many Native converts to their religion.

Organize these options into the right categories.

The “Columbian Exchange” was a process of introducing animals, plants, technology, and disease from one part of the world to another. The exchange went both ways. Identify the place of origin of the goods and a disease that were part of this exchange.

Groups:

(a) New World (Natives)

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(b) Old World (Europe)

• smallpox

• corn and potatoes

• Tomatoes

• sugarcane

• horses and cattle

Identify the statement that is not supported by the map.

• Cabot was the only explorer to arrive in present-day Canada.

• Magellan was the only explorer to sail around most of South America.

• Columbus crossed the Atlantic from Europe four times, landing in the present-day Caribbean and South America.

• Vespucci crossed the Atlantic twice, landing both times in the present-day Bahamas

Identify the outcomes of Portuguese exploration of West Africa.

• Enslaved Africans became the dominant source of labor on sugar plantations.

• The center of sugar production moved from the Mediterranean to West Africa.

• Portugal became the primary European trading partner with the East.

• Portugal was able to create the largest European colonial empire in North America.

The Spanish, French, and Dutch approached colonial settlement from different perspectives. Unlike the French and Dutch, the Spanish developed an empire. Identify the statements that describe the population in Spanish colonies.

• Wives of colonists were required to leave Spain and join their husbands in the colonies.

• All single men were required to marry.

• Persons born in Spain were the minority of the population in the Spanish colonies.

• Native Americans were valued and obtained high ranking offices throughout Spanish Colonies.