Give Me Liberty! (Chapters 1-3) Exam Questions With Correct Answers
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Give Me Liberty
Give Me Liberty! (Chapters 1-3) Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
Land Bridge/Beringia - answer-land that connected Asia and the Western hemisphere before
the ice age
-migration route from people in Aisa who followed their food source
Aztecs - answer-advanced group of Native Americans who oc...
Give Me Liberty! (Chapters 1-3) Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
Land Bridge/Beringia - answer✔-land that connected Asia and the Western hemisphere before
the ice age
-migration route from people in Aisa who followed their food source
Aztecs - answer✔-advanced group of Native Americans who occupied Mexico region
-Tenochitilán was capital, one of world's largest cities at time (250,000 pop.)
Incas - answer✔-advanced group of Native Americans who occupied further south in Peru region
-connected by complex system of roads, bridges, etc. in the mountains (12 million pop.)
Pizarro - answer✔Spanish man who conquered Inca kingdom
Cortés - answer✔-first man to encounter a major American civilization (Tenochitilán)
-conquered Aztec empire with aid of military technology and European diseases
Cahokia - answer✔biggest settled community in US until about 1800; residents bulit giant
mounds
Mound Builders - answer✔Indians of Ohio River Valley who bulit giant mounds and established
trade routes thoughout Mississippi and Ohio River Valleys
Iroquois Confederacy - answer✔group of 5 Native American nations (Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga,
Seneca, Onondaga) who formed a great league of peace
Native American Views of Land - answer✔these people believed land was a resource, not an
economic commodity; families owned rights to land but not land itself (non-ownable); areas of
land were for specific purpose (farming, hunting, etc.); unclaimed land was free for anyone to
use
European Views of Native Americans - answer✔-Europeans viewed Native Americans very
extremely: either "savages" or "gentle and friendly"
-over time, negative portrayals outweighed positive ones; due to cultural differences (men
appeared weak, believed to have too much freedom, wrong religious views-false idols, etc.)
Reconquista - answer✔the effort by Christian leaders to drive the Muslims out of Spain, lasting
from the 1100s until 1492
Ferdinand and Isabella - answer✔Spanish royalty to agreed to sponsor Columbus's voyage
Christopher Columbus - answer✔an explorer from Genoa, Italy who...
-sailed for years exploring Mediterranean and North Atlantic
-knew Earth was round, underestimated size though
-set sail for India but landed in Bahamas (New World)
Columbian Exchange - answer✔-transatlantic flow of goods and people
-altered millions of years of evolution
Encomienda System - answer✔Spanish settlers had been granted authority to force Natives into
labor and take thier land
Mestizos - answer✔a mix of Spanish and Native American descent
Pope Alexander VI - answer✔man who granted power to Ferdinand and Isabella to appoint
bishops to the Spanish territories and also settled the argument between Spain and Portugal over
South America
Juan Gines de Sepulveda - answer✔Spanish philosopher who was in the Great Debate; opposed
de las Casas, and believed the conquest of the Natives was good
Bartolome de Las Casas - answer✔-friar who believed Spain was to blame for innocent Native
American deaths; insisted Native Americans were rational beings- not barbarians
-believed goal was to convert Indians to Christianity and harming/enslaving them would
diminish the outcome of the goal
-thought enslavement of Africans would help protect Native Americans, though
Black Legand - answer✔-image of Spain as uniquely brutal and and exploitative colonizer
-this justified other European powers to challenge Spain's predominance in the New World
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