Chapter One - Indigenous America

1. Approximately when did the first Native Americans arrive on the North American continent?

2. The crops most commonly grown by the Native Americans, known as the ‘Three Sisters’, include: corn, squash, and beans

3. How would you rate the significance of agriculture’s development in North America compared to its development in Asia/Eastern Hemisphere?

4. What term best describes the general pattern of Native American ancestry/descent?

5. Which major Native American city served as the center of the Mississipian Empire?

6. Most Native Americans understood property rights primarily in relation to which concept?

7. Identify the key factors essential to the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs

8. True or False - Before contact, Native Americans generally enjoyed greater intimate relations and marital freedom compared to Europeans. TRUE

9. Pueblo was the leader of which Native American group?

10. Arawaks was the leader of which Native American group?

11. La Malinche was the leader of which Native American group?

12. Apache was the leader of which Native American group?

13. Under Prince Henry the Navigator, the Portuguese utilized which navigational invention to become an early sea power?

14. What proportion of the Native American population is estimated to have died in the first 130 years following contact with Europeans?

15. What was introduced to Europe through the Columbian Exchange?

16. What was the relationship between Christopher Columbus and the nation whose flag he sailed under?

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