FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT THE AMERICAS EXAM

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT THE AMERICAS EXAM

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Question 1: Identify the achievement that the

Mayans developed?

Answer:

A calendar based on a solar year of 365 days

Question 2: Arranged from greatest privileges to

fewest privileges, which is the correct order of the Spanish class system?

Answer:

Peninsulares, criollos, mestizos, Indians, and enslaved persons

Question 3: Once of the long-reaching effects of the

Spanish conquest was the spread of what religion across the Americas?

Answer:

Catholicism

Question 4: The Treaty of Tordesillas established a

territorial dividing line between

Answer:

Spain and Portugal

Question 5: Which early American culture lived to

the east of the Olmecs?

Answer:

The Mayans

Question 6: How was disease helpful to the

Europeans in the late 1400s and early 1500s?

Answer:

It weakened American Indian military power

Question 7: How did the encomienda system

function in the Spanish colonies?

Answer:

It was a slavery system that did not allow the enslaved to be sold off the land

Question 8: Which culture was the first

Mesoamerican civilization?

Answer:

The Olmecs

Question 9: The conquistadors were driven

primarily by

Answer:

The desire for gold

Question 10: In the first Spanish colonies, how did

nearly all American Indians die?

Answer:

Disease

Question 11: Unlike Portuguese explorers, Columbus

believed that he could get to Asia more quickly by sailing

Answer:

West

Question 12: The image gives the impression that

Answer:

The conquistadors were men doing God's work

Question 13: What forced Europeans to look for

other routes east?

Answer:

Land routes were closed off by Ottoman Turks

Question 14: Diseases from which two continents

killed millions of American Indians in the late 1400s and early 1500s?

Answer:

Europe and Africa

Question 15: When a nation conquers and settles

another country for its own benefit, this practice is called

Answer:

Colonization

Question 16: Which option correctly lists North

America's first Paleo-Indian cultures in the order in which they developed?

Answer:

Clovis, Folsom, Plano

Question 17: What was the most significant result of

the Spanish colonization of Central and South America?

Answer:

Spain became rich by stealing the wealth of the American colonies

Question 18: . Columbus and other Europeans of his

time believed that the Earth was

Answer:

Smaller than it really is

Question 19: What prompted early migration to

North America and created a way for migrants to get there?

Answer:

The most recent Ice Age

Question 20: Triangular Trade routes involved

shipments of raw materials, finished goods, and enslaved

Answer:

Africans

Question 21: What made land routes to Asia

dangerous to travel in 1492?

Answer:

Bands of thieves