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APUSH AMSCO Unit 1 (Chapters 1-4) Study Guide with Complete Solutions Mayas - Answer️️ -built remarkable cities in the rain forests of the Yucatan Peninsula (present-day Guatemala, Belize, and southern Mexico). Aztecs - Answer️️ -were dominating Mexico and Central America, Incas - Answ...

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APUSH AMSCO Unit 1 (Chapters 1-4)
Study Guide with Complete Solutions


Mayas - Answer✔️✔️-built remarkable cities in the rain forests of the Yucatan Peninsula

(present-day Guatemala, Belize, and southern Mexico).


Aztecs - Answer✔️✔️-were dominating Mexico and Central America,

Incas - Answer✔️✔️-based in Peru developed a vast empire in South America.

Cultures of Central and South America - Answer✔️✔️-1. All three civilizations developed

highly organized societies, carried on an extensive trade, and created calendars that

were based on accurate scientific observations.

2. All three cultivated crops that provided a stable food supply, particularly corn (maize)

for the Mayas and Aztecs and potatoes for the Incas.

Language - Answer✔️✔️-1. American Indian languages constituted more than 20

language families.

2. Among the largest of these were Algonquian in the Northeast, Siouan on the Great

Plains, and Athabaskan in the Southwest. Together, these 20 families included more

than 400 distinct languages.

Southwest Settlements - Answer✔️✔️-1. Pueblos evolved multifaceted societies

supported by farming with irrigation systems. they lived in caves, under cliffs, and in

multistoried buildings. By the time Europeans arrived, extreme drought and other hostile

natives had taken their toll on these groups.

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2. Their life was preserved in the arid land and their stone and masonry dwellings.

Northwest Settlements - Answer✔️✔️-1. people lived in permanent longhouses or plank

houses.

2. They had a rich diet based on hunting, fishing, and gathering nuts, berries, and roots.

3. To save stories, legends, and myths, they carved large totem poles. The high

mountain ranges in this region isolated tribes from one another, creating barriers to

development.

Great Plains - Answer✔️✔️-1. either nomadic hunters or sedentary people who farmed

and traded.

2. The nomadic tribes survived on hunting, principally the buffalo, which supplied their

food as well as decorations, crafting tools, knives, and clothing.

3. They lived in tepees, frames of poles covered in animal skins, which were easily

disassembled and transported. While the farming tribes also hunted buffalo, they lived

permanently in earthen lodges often along rivers.

4. Not until the 17th century did American Indians acquire horses by trading or stealing

them from Spanish settlers.

5. The plains tribes would at times merge or split apart as conditions changed. Migration

also was common. For example, the Apaches gradually migrated southward from

Canada to Texas.

Midwest Settlements - Answer✔️✔️-1. prospered with a rich food supply. Supported by

hunting, fishing, and agriculture, many permanent settlements developed in the

Mississippi and Ohio River valleys and elsewhere.

2. famous for the large earthen mounds it created, some as large as 300 feet long.


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Northeast Settlements - Answer✔️✔️-1. Their culture combined hunting and farming.

However, their farming techniques exhausted the soil quickly, so people had to move to

fresh land frequently.

2. the Iroquois were a powerful force, battling rival American Indians as well as

Europeans.

Iroquois Confederation - Answer✔️✔️-a political union of five independent tribes who

lived in the Mohawk Valley of New York. The five tribes were the Seneca, Cayuga,

Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk.

Europe Moves Toward Exploration - Answer✔️✔️-Until the late 1400s, Americans and the

people of Europe, Africa, and Asia had no knowledge of the people on the other side of

the Atlantic Ocean.

Improvements in Technology - Answer✔️✔️-1. In Europe, a rebirth of classical learning

prompted an outburst of artistic and scientific activity in the 15th and 16th centuries

known as the Renaissance.

2.they began to use gunpowder (invented by the Chinese) and the sailing compass

(adopted from Arab merchants who learned about it from the Chinese).

3.Europeans also made major improvements in shipbuilding and mapmaking. In

addition, the invention of the printing press in the 1450s aided the spread of knowledge

across Europe.

Protestant Revolt in Northern Europe - Answer✔️✔️-1. Conflict between Catholics and

Protestants led to a series of religious wars. The conflict also caused the Catholics of

Spain and Portugal and the Protestants of England and Holland to want to spread their

own versions of Christianity to people in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Thus, a

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