Anthropology
A religious/ spiritual belief system that indicates all natural objects have souls/spirits.
What is animism?
A small, highly maneuverable sailing ship developed in the 15th century by the Portuguese based on ancient Egyptian technology. Used 'lanteen' sails, or triangular sails.
What is a caravel?
Widely considered to be the island Columbus first landed on in what is considered to be the modern-day Bahamas. Columbus named the island after Christ the Savior.
What is San Salvador?
A Spanish conquistador whose expedition caused the fall of the Aztec empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castille in the early 16th century.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
Spanish born person residing in the "New World", Spanish East Indies, or Spanish guinea.
Who were the Peninsulares?
Discuss a few of the reasons there is so little reliable information about the native peoples of the Americas prior to the arrival of the European invaders.
Lack of a written language, intentional genocide, unintentional bacterial plague, intentional destruction of artifacts
Describe some of the significant circumstantial conditions that aided European conquest of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Cite at least four specific examples.
Guns, Germs, Steel, Geography, Warfare styles
What state and in what year was the 50th U.S. state added?
Hawaii, 1959
(Both for full points, half for one)
A large planed canoe used for transportation and trade.
What is a Tomol?
An accounting system where every entry to an account requires a corresponding and opposite entry to a different account. Two equal and corresponding sides are known as debit and credit.
What is double-entry bookkeeping?
An Italian navigator and explorer. His 1497 exploration of N. America is the earliest known European exploration of coastal N. America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the 11th century.
Who is John Cabot?
A large Mexica city-state in what is now the historic center of Mexico City. The seat of the Aztec Empire in the 15th century.
What is Tenochititlán?
People born in New Spain of two parents who initially came from Spain.
Who were the creoles?
Describe the nature and impact of the dynamic known as the Columbian Exchange.
transmission of people, ideas, food, technology between Europe and the Americas
According to NASA, in miles per hour, at what speed does sound travel at sea level? (+/- 10 mph)
761 mph
(751-771 acceptable)
A central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire of the 15th century. Spent significant time exploring the Atlantic and West African Coast. Within the European tradition, is regarded as a pivotal figure opening the 'age of exploration'.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
A concept named in the 1970s that describes the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, humans, technology, and diseases as a consequence of European naval exploration.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Emperor-king of the Incan Empire. Was captured and eventually executed by Spanish explorers led by Francisco Pizarro.
Who is Atahualpa?
Children of one European parent and one Native parent (usually not black)
Who were Mestizos?
How many different kinds of motorcycles has Mr. Weiss raced on during his semi-pro career?
5
Honda VTR 250
Yamaha FZR 400
Honda CB 400
Suzuki SV 650
Yamaha R6
A nobleman of the Portuguese court and noted naval explorer. He is considered to be the first European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias
A labor system employed by the Spanish in the 'New World' that exploited indigenous labor for European benefit. It was implemented with the intent of being more 'fair' than outright slavery.
What is the Encomienda system?
Emperor-king of the Mexica/ Aztec Empire. Was captured and eventually killed by Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés.
Who is Montezuma?
Usually refers to children of one European and one African parent.
Who were Mulattoes?
The official number of human-made satellites orbiting the Earth, +/- 100
2,666 (2,566-2,766 is the acceptable range)
A Portuguese explorer and widely considered to be the first European to reach Inda by sea travel. The confirmed 'sea-route' to Asia opened an age of European imperialism.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
A German cartographer and humanist scholar. He is credited with the first recorded usage of the word America to name a portion of the 'New World' in honor of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
Who is Martin Waldseemüller?
The title designated to much of the Americas after had had been 'explored' and 'conquered' by the Spanish.
What is New Spain?
The age Mr. Weiss will turn on the first day of winter break this year.
33
A period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula of about 780 years. Marked by frequent conflict in order to reestablish Catholicism as the dominant religion and expel the African Moors.
What is the Reconquest/ Reconquista?
A treaty signed in 1494 that divided up the newly discovered American territories between the Spanish and Portuguese empires.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
The Spanish conquistador credited with bringing about the destruction of the Incan empire after the successful capture and execution of King Atahualpa.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
Who wrote and performed the American rock and roll classic "Cortez the Killer?
Neil Young