What was the name of the single super continent some 225 million years ago where the entire world’s dry land was contained?

Pangea

2. How long ago were the Appalachian Mountains created? What part of North America are they located i

480-350 mill years ago, they run from Canada to Georgia then to Alabaman along the east coast

3. What was the name of the narrow eastern coastal plain that sloped gently upward to the timeworn ridges of the Appalachians?

Tidewater region

. How did many of the Native Americans travel to North America from Asia?

The land bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska

Which Indian tribe called Peru home when the Spanish came to the New World?

Incas

Which Indian tribe called Central America home PRIOR to the Aztec empire (Yucatan Peninsula)?

Mayans

Which Indian tribe called Mexico home when the Spanish came to the New World?

Aztecs

Which crop did most of the tribes cultivate as their primary harvest?

Maize

How did the Aztecs routinely seek favor with their many gods? Why did Aztecs perform this ritual daily?

Human sacrifice (5000). They thought the sun would be extinguished if they didn’t.

Which Indian tribe, known as “ village” in Spanish, constructed intricate irrigation systems to water their cornfields in the Rio Grande valley

Pueblo

N ame three Indian tribes located in Arizona when the Spanish arrived in the New World? Texas?

Mohave, Yuma, Pima, Papago, Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Maricopa. Apache, Jumano and Eastern Pueblos, Kiowa, Comanche, Wichita, Tawakoni, Kitsai, Daddo, Bidai, Karankawa, Tonkawa, Coahuilteco, Carrizo

Which North American Indian tribe created a Confederacy, which could have rivaled the great nation-states of Mexico and Peru?

Iroquois

What was the name of the sixteenth century leader of the Iroquois Confederacy?

Hiawatha

Why were the Native Americans easily conquered by the Spanish and later by the English?

They had inferior weapons, were not organized, spoke many different languages, European diseases

The “three-sister” farming technique produced which crops in the southeastern Atlantic seaboard region?

Makze, beans, squash

Which Native American tribes prospered because of the “three sister” farming technique?

Cherokee, creek, Choctaw

What is probably the greatest legacy of the North American Indian tribes to the Americans (Hjort question)?

Their name

How many Native Americans occupied North America in 1492? What is the current number of American Indian/Alaska Natives in the United States?

4-7 million/5.2 million

Which Viking was probably the first to set foot upon the North American soil?

Leif Erickson

How did the crusades help to drive the need to “discover” North America? How did the fall of the Mongolian Empire lead to the Age of Exploration?

The drive for goods and exotic delights of Asia created a need for a quicker route to Asia. It became more dangerous to travel along the land route to Asia and drove people to the water.

Which Italian adventurer returned to Europe in 1295 to tell tails of his nearly 20-year trip in China?

Marco Polo

Which country had developed the caravel, a ship that could sail more closely into the wind, and they also discovered that they could return to Europe by sailing northwesterly from the African coast toward the Azores, where the prevailing westward breezes would carry them home?

Portuguese

Who were the first flesh (slave) merchants in the Continent of Africa?

Arabs and Africans themselves

Which Portuguese explorer rounded the southernmost tip of the “Dark Continent” in 1488?

Bartholemew Dias

In 1498, which Portuguese explorer reached India and returned with jewels and spices?

Vasco de Gama