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APUSH Review Exam Period 1-3,
AMSCO Flag Book Chapters 1-6
Questions and Answers 100% Correct
Native Americans - ANSWER - The first Americans that migrated southward from the Arctic
Circle to the southern tip of South America.


Bering strait crossing - ANSWER - Bridge that connected Siberia and Alaska, which is now
submerged under the Bering Sea. It allowed waves of migrants from Asia to arrive in America.


Sioux and Pawnee - ANSWER - Nomadic tribes that followed the buffalo herds.


Pueblo - ANSWER - Tribe in the Southwest that lived in multistory buildings and developed
intricate irrigation systems for farming.


Cahokia - ANSWER - The largest Indian settlement that had nearly 30,000 inhabitants, found
near present-day East St. Louis, Illinois.


Iroquois - ANSWER - Northeast Indian settlement, in which a political confederacy, the League
of the Iroquois was formed. This league withstood attacks from opposing Native Americans and
Europeans during much of the 17th and 18th centuries


Mayans - ANSWER - One of three complex civilizations, which between A.D. 300 and 800, built
remarkable cities in the rain forests of the Yucatan Peninsula.


Aztecs - ANSWER - One of three complex civilizations, which came centuries after the Mayas
and lived in central Mexico.


Incans - ANSWER - One of three complex civilizations, which lived in Peru and ruled over vast
empires.

,Renaissance - ANSWER - Rebirth of classical learning and an outburst of artistic and scientific
activity. One aspect of this rebirth was a gradual increase in scientific knowledge and
technological change.




Conquistadors - ANSWER - Spanish soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who brought much of
the Americas under the control of Spain in the 15th to 16th centuries, and sent ships loaded with
gold and silver back to Spain from the New World.


Asiento system - ANSWER - When European's brutality and diseases reduced the Native
American population, the Spanish brought slaves from West Africa under this system, which
required the Spanish to pay a tax to their king on each slave they imported to the Americas.


John Cabot - ANSWER - Italian sea captain who was under contract to England's King Henry
VII. He explored the coast of Newfoundland in 1497.


Gunpowder - ANSWER - Invented by the Chinese, this led to portable weapons and the
development of hand-held firearms such as muskets.


Compass - ANSWER - Adopted from the Chinese by Arab merchants, this led to major
improvements in navigation and map-making.


Printing press - ANSWER - Invented in the 1450s, this aided the spread of knowledge across
Europe by being able to mass produce works of literature.


Moors - ANSWER - Spanish Muslims that came to conquer and rule the Iberian Peninsula for
nearly 800 years, before being driven out in 1492.


Ferdinand and Isabella - ANSWER - The king of Aragon and the queen of Castille, who united
their separate Christian kingdoms, and were successful in defeating the Moors of Granada, the
only Moorish stronghold. Their unity was a sign of new leadership, hope, and power for
European believers in the Roman Catholic faith.


Protestant Reformation - ANSWER - The revolt in the early 1500s, when Christians in Germany,
England, France, Holland, and other northern European countries revolted against the authority
of the pope in Rome.

, Henry the Navigator - ANSWER - Portuguese explorer, who sponsored a voyage south along
the West African coast, and succeeded in opening up a long sea route around South Africa's
Cape of Good Hope in hopes of reaching Asia.


Vasco da Gama - ANSWER - The Portuguese sea captain, who was the first European to reach
India by the route found by Prince Henry.


Encomienda system - ANSWER - System in which the king of Spain gave grants of land and
Indians to individual Spaniards. These Indians had to farm or work in the mines. The fruits of
their labors went to their Spanish masters, who in turn had to "care" for them.


Christopher Columbus - ANSWER - The Italian-born explorer who sought the support of Isabella
and Ferdinand to sail west from Europe. In doing so, he believed he had found a western route
to Asia and this brought him a burst of glory in Spain.


Amerigo Vespucci - ANSWER - An Italian sailor, whom America was named after.


papal line of demarcation - ANSWER - In 1493, the pope drew a vertical, north-south line on a
world map, giving Spain all the lands of the west of the line and Portugal all lands to the east to
settle a land dispute between the two.


Treaty of Tordesillas - ANSWER - The treaty signed by Spain and Portugal, which moved the
papal line a few degrees to the west


Vasco Núñez de Balboa - ANSWER - Spanish explorer and conquistador, who journeyed across
the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean.


Ferdinand Magellan - ANSWER - Portuguese explorer who became the first to circumnavigate
the world.


Hernan Cortes - ANSWER - Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of
the Aztec Empire in the early 16th century.


Francisco Pizarro - ANSWER - Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan empire in Peru.

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