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LESSON 1 of History
About history whatever
Question | Answer |
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What does history study? | What remains of the past |
The historical record is ___ and ____. | Biased and imperfect |
When did humans first migrate to america? | About 20,000 years ago |
How did people know when the humans first migrated? | Fossil records and artifacts |
Who settled throughout america? | Paleo-Americans and their descendants |
What societies did indigenous people established? | nomadic, sedentary, and semi-sedentary |
What sedentary groups established complex, urban societies? | Mississippian mound-builders and Mesoamerican empires |
When did agricultural revolution allowed for cultural flourishing, dense settlement, and consolidation of power? | After 700 CE |
Native groups held _________ to ___________. | Communal rights, ancestral lands |
What connected the diverse people of North America? | Intricate webs of exchange |
Who was connected by conflict and old webs of exchange? | Europe, Africa, and Asia |
What religon dominated Western Europe? | Christianity |
Who dominated Africa? | Islam |
Who were less likely to cross oceans and find "new" lands | Western Europe |
What happened in 1453? | The fall of Constantinople |
What did struggling european monarchs sought? | Alternate routes to Africa and Asia. |
Who proposed sailing west to reach Asia? | Christopher Columbus |
What tasks did Christopher Columbus include in his quest? | trade, conquest, and the spread of Christianity |
Who sponsored Columbus's voyage? | Ferdinand and Isabella |
Columbus chronicled his journeys to the ______. | Americas |
What have greater longevity? | Written records |
___________ tie to our understanding of "historical truths". | Written accounts |
Who wrote North and South America as a "new world" | Amerigo Vespucci |
The new world was inspired by ____________. | Thomas More's Utopia |
Who drew revised depictions of the World? | European mapmakers |
who first used the first name "America" on a map? | Martin Waldseemuller |