French settlements - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) - correct answer An agreement between Portugal and Spain which declared that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal. St. Augustine (1565) - correct answer The oldest continually inhabited European settlement in United States territory. Mercantilism - correct answer European government policies ...

Christopher Columbus - Sent by Ferdinand and Isabel of Spain Sailed in 1492 with 3 ships to look for East Asia Commercial and religious motives Clashed with Taino Began a colony in the West Indies, where many died Spanish goals in America - Spread Christianity- Jesuits Wealth- silver and gold for profit Conquistadors looking for profit and glory Life ways of Native Americans - Horticulture- cultivated maize, squash, and beans Remained small, mobile, and egalitarian Hohokam and Anasazi ...

US history All Milestones (With answers)Which native civilization invented a numerical system to keep records? The Olmec The Aztec The Maya The Inca The First Settlers 2 When, "in fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue," what hypothesis was he attempting to prove? The Atlantic Ocean is smaller than most cartographers at the time believed. Lands previously unknown to most of Europe existed to the west. That newer, faster boats from Portugal could reach Asia before t...

LUOA - U.S. History Exam Questions and Answers Latest 2024/2025 Graded | Liberty University. Archeology - The scientific study of material evidence of the past. Cahokia - A Native American city that boasted a population of 20,000 before the 1490's. Cactus Hill - One of the oldest archaeological sites in North America. Bering Strait Thesis - The most popular view is that the ice age lowered teh water level enough so that a land bridge appeared in teh Bering Strait. Pacific Ocean Thesis - S...

Praxis 5081 - US History Latest 2023 Graded A+ Pre-Columbian Era - Groups of hunters arrive from northwest Asia and cross the land bridge Bering Strait into North America, becoming the first Americans - The Mayans, Toltecs, Aztecs, and Incas settle in Central and South America - The Adena-Hopewell, Mississippian, and Pueblo Hohokam civilizations emerge in North America - The Renaissance flourishes through Europe, leading to a revival of learning, the rise of new and powerful monarchies and th...

The Spanish Empire in America was, unlike the French and English New World empires, a mostly urban civilization. What was the primary purpose of the Proclamation of 1763? To bring stability to the colonial frontier. In the 1770s and 1780s, what was a characteristic of voting rights? They were not uniform, as each state's constitution had different stipulations. Which commodity drove the African slave trade in Brazil and the West Indies during the seventeenth century? Su...

UGA History Exemption Test - UPDATED BY DREW YALL WELCOME Pre-Columbian Peoples of the American Southwest - ANS -Agriculturally focused groups that developed powerful and complex societies -Became increasingly dependent on the cultivation of maize Pre-Columbian economy in Great Basin and the western Great Plains - ANS - Migratory because of limited resources Pre-Columbian economy in the Northeast and along the Atlantic Seaboard - ANS -Another Group of tribes in present-day NY...

GIS Questions and Answers (2022/2023) Already Passed Which of the following choices is NOT one of the four primary categories of ethics? Obligations to one's personal beliefs True or False? Ethical conduct is always legal conduct and vice versa False The following statement is a description of which of the following 7 ethics tests? What does the companies ethics officer or legal counsel say about this decision? Organization Test The following statement is a description of which of the foll...

ARC 308 Quiz 2 Questions with All Correct Answers In her chapter on "affection" one of Ms. Heschonds primary examples is the family of Harvard professor Lawrence Wylie who moved from their modern American home to a French village house heated by fireplaces. Which of the following best describes their transition? - Answer- They found that their family life became concentrated in one room in their French house since it was very difficult and time consuming to keep fireplaces burning all ov...

APUSH AMSCO Period 1 Questions and Answers Already Graded A Columbian Exchange Trans-Atlantic trade of animals, plants, germs, and people. Profoundly changed each area it hit (Europe, North America, South America, Caribbean, Africa) Natives and Africans Were used for labor in agriculture and mining precious metals. Resisted oppression by maintaining elements of their cultures. European countries in America Spanish and Portuguese, followed by the French and Dutch, and then the English. Columbu...