Disease that killed most of the Native Americans
What is smallpox
The existence of a single original continent has been proved by the presence of
What is Identical species of fish
In 1492 the total population in the Americas was
What is 54 million
How many different tribes were in North America?
What is 200s
The early voyages of the Scandinavian seafarers did not result in permanent settlement in North America because no nation-state wanted to _______________ these adventures
What is expand or support
What type of plantations were created in the West Indies
What is sugar
The mountain range that was probably created before the continental separation is
What is the Appalachians
The size and sophistication of Native American civilizations in Mexico and South America can be attributed to
What is the development of agriculture
The main factor that led Europeans to conquer North American natives with ease was
What is dispersed populations
Europeans wanted to discover a new, shorter route to eastern Asia to break the hold that Muslim merchants had on trade with Asia, reduce the price of goods from Asia, gain more profits for themselves, and reduce the ________________to transport goods.
What is time it took
These two animals where introduced to the New World by the Europeans.
What is Horses and Pigs
This iconic landmark, in Arizona would NOT have been created in North America at the time when the glaciers retreated was
What is the Grand Canyon
The least developed Native American civilizations lived in
What is North America
The development of "three sisters" farming on the southeast Atlantic seaboard produced a rich diet that led to
What is higher populations
Before the middle of the fifteenth century, sub-Saharan Africa had remained remote and mysterious to Europeans because sea travel down the African coast had been
What is dangerous or nearly impossible
The main crop of Native Americans
What is Maize or coren
The Great Ice Age accounted for the origins of North America's human history because
What is an exposed land bridge connecting Eurasia with North America.
The capital city of the Aztec Empire
What is Tenochtitlan
The Iroquois Confederacy was able to menace its Native American and European neighbors because of its
What is military alliance.
The origins of the modern plantation system can be found in the _______________ slave trade
What is Portuguese
Disease from the Americas that was introduced to Europeans
What is Syphilis
Most likely the first Americans were
What is people who crossed the land bridge
The king of the Aztecs
What is Montezuma
North American Native men would leave crop_______________ to the Native women.
What is tending
Spain was united into a single nation state when the _____________ were expelled from the Iberian Peninsula.
What is African Moors