Colonization Test

What was the name of the alliance between Native Americans in northern New York?

• Seneka Confederacy

• Iroquois Confederacy

• Mohawk Confederacy

• Huron Confederacy

Which nation was the first to search for a route to Asia and the first to reach India by sailing around the south of Africa?

• France

• Spain

• Portugal

• England

What is the name of the region of southern Mexico and Central America where the agricultural revolution took place?

• Teotihuacan

• Maya

• Beringia

• Mesoamerica

What was a Caravel?

• A navigational instrument that used the position of the sun to determine direction, latitude, and local time

• A Portuguese ship that incorporated many different improvements

• A special type of compass that told direction more accurately

• A navigational college established by Henry the Navigator

What is the name of the largest city in the Mississippi area, close to modern day St. Louis?

• Cahokia

• Teotihuacan

• Pueblos

• Tenochtitlan

The Europeans began exploring when they began to look for a route to where?

• Asia

• Africa

• Australia

• America

What are pueblos?

• Circular ceremonial rooms

• The land bridge where humans crossed from Asia into North America

• A group of people who built cities in Central America

• Large, multistory buildings of adobe and cut stone, named after the Spanish word for villages

Which explorer was the first to reach the Americas?

• Vasco da Gama

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Columbus

• Henry the Navigator

This civilization rose in Central America and Southern Mexico, and they built great temple pyramids and had a complex and accurate calendar.

• Hohokam

• Toltec

• Aztec

• Mayan

What was one of the main trade commodities that the West African kingdoms traded to the Europeans?

• Horses

• Slaves

• Cotton

• Sugar