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America Before Columbus Quiz

Total questions: 76

Worksheet time: 4hrs 48mins

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Class
Date
1.

What types of natural wealth were in the Americas before Europeans arrived?

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2.

How did the nobles in Europe gain their wealth?

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3.

What problem occurred in the 1400s with obtaining more of this wealth?

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4.

How large is the population of Europe?

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5.

What is the problem with the large population?

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6.

What do most people in Europe eat?

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7.

What two things allowed the European population to grow?

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8.

What are the 'Big 5'?

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9.

How many people are living in the Americas?

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10.

What type of people live along the Mississippi River?

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11.

What made this group so successful?

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12.

What is so special about this crop?

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13.

How did it develop?

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14.

What food fueled the Incan civilization and allowed it to grow?

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15.

How did this food protect against crop failure and famine?

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16.

What farming method did the Inca use?

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17.

What domestic animal do the Inca use?

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18.

What did they use the animal for if not farming?

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19.

What animal was domesticated and used by the Aztecs?

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20.

What do Native Americans notice about growing grasses on the Plains?

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21.

What other benefits does this domestication of the land have besides growing?

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22.

What animal is the main food source, clothing, and tools on the Plains?

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23.

How do Native Americans hunt large animals? Describe the process and tools

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24.

What is different about hunting in Europe?

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25.

What do many people eat in Europe for protein?

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26.

What problem develops with this natural resource?

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27.

What types of resources come from the Amazon basin?

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28.

What are the Anasazi known for making?

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29.

What happened to the Anasazi's environment? Did they have a hand in this decline? Explain

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30.

What is Europe's most important and most used natural resource?

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31.

What is this resource used for?

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32.

What is the richest city in Europe?

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33.

How do they overuse the resource?

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34.

What major invention helped spread ideas around Europe?

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35.

Some explorers try to go around Africa to find the sea route to India. Explorers - Columbus

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36.

Who decides to finance Columbus' trip into the unknown?

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37.

What do they have to gain from the exploration?

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38.

What type of men agreed to sail with Columbus?

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39.

What is missing from the 'India' that Columbus thinks he found?

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40.

How much bigger are the American continents than Europe?

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41.

What does Columbus describe that he has found in his letter to Isabella?

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42.

What type of men become desperados or conquistadors?

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43.

What animal do the Spanish bring that did not exist in the Americas?

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44.

How long does it take for the Spanish to wipe out the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Inca empires?

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45.

What new breed is formed from a few wild Spanish horses?

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46.

How many horses are there after only 150 years?

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47.

How does the introduction of the horse change life for Native Americans of the Plains?

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48.

What do conquistadors like Hernando DeSoto go north looking for?

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49.

What other new animals are introduced into the Americas?

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50.

Why were they brought?

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51.

What is the problem with pigs for the Native Americans?

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52.

What do the pigs do to adapt to being wild in North America?

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53.

How many pigs are there after only 20 years?

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54.

What were some of the symptoms and problems resulting from smallpox?

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55.

What do the Spaniards believe about God and the disease?

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56.

What are the estimates of those Natives that die of smallpox?

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57.

Do people have to have contact with Europeans to contract the disease?

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58.

How does this disease help the Spanish and later Europeans conquer the Americas?

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59.

What types of plants and crops are brought to Europe that were unknown before the discovery of the Americas?

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60.

What disease are Europeans exposed to by their contact with the Native Americans?

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61.

In 1607 the English started a colony in the area known as Virginia. Their town is called Jamestown after their king.

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62.

What is the main resource found in North America? - since there was no gold or silver

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63.

What problem does this cause in only 200 years after discovery/colonization?

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64.

What other resources did they find to replace another necessity they had used in Europe?

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65.

What do the English use the forests for?

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66.

What are some reasons people come to live, not just to take, from the Americas?

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67.

What are some new items that the English bring to North America?

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68.

What unintended changes in the Americas come with the new agriculture?

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69.

What is one of the cheapest foods in the Americas?

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70.

What types of trees do Europeans bring from home?

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71.

What is the exchange of plants, goods, and diseases called?

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72.

What crop takes over cultivation in Europe?

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73.

How does this crop help the Irish? And later, the rest of the European population?

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74.

What are some of the luxury products that come from the Americas?

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75.

How did settlers in the Americas satisfy the demand for these goods?

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76.

In the 'New World,' what percentage of Native Americans died due to European arrival?

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