Ch 1 sec 1 “Many Cultures Meet”
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The American Indians
1. When did the first humans arrive in the Americas?
2. What are the two different explanations given for how people came to the Americas?
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3. What 2 factors contributed to the American Indians developing great cultural diversity?
4. How many languages developed among the American Indians?
5. List 2 characteristics shared by many American Indian cultures.
6. Explain what a clan was.
7. In what geographic area did the Indians first learn to grow crops? What were the 3 main crops they grew?
8. What was the effect of an expanded food supply on the native population?
9. Some native populations did not rely on agriculture. What three activities sustained their way of life?
The Europeans
10. The Renaissance in Europe lead to advances in what 4 areas?
11. What 2 factors encouraged exploration?
12. What were nations who participated in exploration seeking?
13. Which two groups dominated trade?
14. What 2 factors allowed the Portuguese to take the lead in exploration?
The West Africans
15. West Africa was civilized and very populated. What 4 factors are evidence of their advanced civilization?
16. What 3 things were the Portuguese interested in getting from West Africa?
17. How many enslaved Africans were taken across the Atlantic during this time?
18. What was the middle passage?
19. What was the effect of the slave trade on West Africa, and on European countries?
First Encounters in America
20. Where was Christopher Columbus from? And who sponsored his voyage?
21. Where did Columbus plan to end up? Where did he actually land?
22. What 2 things did Columbus and other explorers do to the Indians?
23. What country took over much of the Caribbean, Central, and South America?
24. Describe the conquistadores.
25. List 4 conquistadores and the areas they explored/conquered.
26. What three advantages/ weapons did the Europeans have to successfully defeat the Native Americans?
27. What new animals were introduced to the Americas by the colonizers?
28. What 2 crops that the Indians cultivated did the Europeans adopt?
29. What was the Columbian Exchange?
What do you think?
30. When Europeans and American Indians first encountered one another, they each must have been startled to see the
other. What opinion do you think Columbus had of the Indians? What do you think American Indians thought of the
Europeans?