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US History 111
Chapter 1
Question | Answer |
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People first arrived in North America closest to | 25000 BCE |
The first Americans most likely arrived in the New World from | Asia by way of a land bridge |
The European who explored North America around 1000 was | Leif Ericsson |
The Maya Indians populated the area of | Central America |
The Portuguese prince who promoted overseas trade in the fifteenth century was | Henry |
The part of South America claimed by the Portuguese in 1500 was | Brazil |
Tikal was a great city of the | Maya |
The great city that existed along the Mississippi River in the years prior to the arrival of the Europeans was | Cahokia |
Historians call the religious wars that swept across Europe from 1095 to about 1290 the | Crusades |
Vasco da Gama's significance is that he | established a Portuguese sea route to India |
Meso-America refers to | Mexico and Central America |
The people that built large stone heads along the east coast of Mexico around 1200 were the | Olmecs |
Marco Polo | developed important trade with Asia |
The African slave trade was started by | Africans |
When Columbus sailed in 1492 he | established the first permanent European colony in the Americas |
The pope divided the world in the Treaty of Tordesillas between | Portugal and Spain |
Christopher Columbus sailed to America for | Spain |
The first expedition to circumnavigate the globe began under | Ferdinand Magellan |
The Spice Islands refer to | the eastern Indian Ocean |
Christopher Columbus set foot on each of the following locations except | North America |
The Americas got their name from | an Italian banker and merchant |
Mammoths were the | large animals hunted by early Americans |
The Aztecs descended from people called the | Chichimecs |
The founder of the Muslim religion was | Mohammed |