Ch. 1 Reading Questions - pp. 4- 23 2014-15
Visuals:
1. P.2 - Algonquin Indians fishing by John White…. When does he paint this, of where? What sig.
does the caption say his paintings have for historians?
2. P.4 - Opening quote…is Columbus correct?
3. P.7 - Examining the Evidence – subject? What misconception?
4. P.8 – subject of Artist?
5. P.9 Map – subject? Why is it “virtually impossible to determine which groups were originally
where?”
6. P.15 Chart – subject? What is the modern term for the “ Columbian Exchange?”
7. P.16 Brown Box- Who? Wrote what? Why? Long term significance?
8. P.17 Map …who is the black line? Red line? Yellow line? What is common among the three?
9. Pp.18-19 makers of America? Subject? How many men conquered the Americas? Who were
the conquistadores…age class etc.. what were their motives? Few became…? Who replaced
them as leaders in about 1530 -1550? What was the consequence of the scarcity of Spanish
Women in the Americas? Paraguay? New race is called? A bridge?
10. P.22 map – who green line? Where? Who purple line? Where? Yellow box?
Reading…
11. P7-8 advanced agricultural practices where based on what?
Earliest Americans
12. Corn cultivation transforms nomadic hunters into what? When? What tribe has irrigation
systems? Their dwellings were? Village in Spanish means?
13. Mound builders, Mississippians, Anasazi… all ancient indian civilizations in North America had
what in common?
14. Cahokia?
15. P.10 – Three sister farming?
16. Iroquois Confederacy?
17. Matriarchal?
18. Why was North America not affected as much environmentally by the Indians? How did they
impact the environment?
19. P.13-14 – Columbus comes upon a new world…Europeans clamored for more and more? Africa
had been established as a source of? The Portuguese had demonstrated the feasibility of?
Invention produced around 1450 which facilitated the spread of scientific knowledge?
20. Columbus’s discovery convulsed _______ continents? Name them?
21. Interdependent Global Economic system is called ? Europe provided? Africa provided? The New
World provided?
22. pp. 14-15 – When worlds collide… Two ___________ commingled and clashed? Significance of:
potato, Horses, sugar cane, Germs?
23. Population of Taino natives in Hispaniola…pop in 1492? Pop 50 years later? Deadliest killer of
Native Americans? What % of Native Americans perish in the 100 years after the arrival of
Columbus?
24. P.17 – last paragraph… Encomienda? de Las Casas called the Encomienda system?
25. P.20 – 1st column, last paragraph… the invader brought more than conquest… he brought what?
Malinchista? Dia de la Raza?
26. P.21 – The Spread of Spanish America… Two universities when and where? English explorer?
Two French explorers? Why do the Spanish begin to fortify and settle their borderlands?
27. Oldest continually inhabited European settlement in the future United States is settled by the
Spanish…where? When?
28. Don Juan Onate explores where? When? Battle of Acoma? Who wins…each indian survivor?
Capital city? When? P. 22 -Significance of Pope’s Rebellion in 1680?
29. P.22- French explorer down the Mississippi? Who? When? Spanish settle where in response?
When? Mission called in San Antonio?
30. California… Father? Where? How many missions?
31. P. 23 – Last two paragraphs… The text claims the “ Black legend “ is what, exactly …A ____
______? The text states that the Spanish certainly treat the natives poorly, HOWEVER… they
also do what? They erected? They grafted? Layed the foundation of? “Clearly” …. The
Spaniards were genuine ___________ _____________ AND ___________
___________(obviously a good thing, right?) Compared with their Anglo-Saxon (English) rivals
their colonial establishment was __________ and _______ …..and would endure more than how
much longer? …..In the last analysis…. Copy beginning with: The Spanish….