i>Clicker Questions

1. Chapter 1: Colliding Worlds, 1450–1600 i>Clicker Questions

2. The first people to live in the Western Hemisphere migrated to the Americas beginning about fifteen thousand years ago. How did they reach the Western Hemisphere? • a. By canoeing from islands in the South Pacific • b. By crossing a 100-mile-wide land bridge between Siberia and Alaska • c. By sailing across the Atlantic from Western Europe • d. By sailing across the Atlantic from western Africa

3. 2. Why did the Aztecs practice human sacrifice? a. To ensure agricultural fertility and the daily return of the sun b. To eliminate subversive anarchists c. To intimidate neighboring peoples d. To abate the anger of the god, Tenochtitlán

4. 3. What made regional trade networks possible among northern Native Americans before the arrival of Europeans? a. Infrastructure b. A pan-Indian currency c. Specialized economies d. Agricultural economies

5. 4. Which statement characterizes the political transformation associated with the Renaissance? a. The landed nobility gained power from the trade of commodities. b. Urban bankers and merchants allied against monarchs. c. Peasants moved to urban areas and participated in politics. d. Monarchs formed alliances with wealthy merchants and urban artisans.

6. 5. Which statement summarizes the historical impact of the crusaders? a. They liberated Jerusalem from Muslim occupation. b. They drove Muslim forces out of the Iberian Peninsula. c. Their religious warfare intensified Europe's Christian identity. d. Their liberation of Jerusalem prompted a new tolerance for Jews.

7. 6. Why did the Ghana, Mali, and Songhai empires enjoy great power in the centuries prior to 1500? a. Their armies gave them enormous military power. b. They had enslaved most of the West African coastal kingdoms. c. They controlled the trans-Saharan trade. d. They had trading privileges with the Portuguese.

8. 7. Why did the people of West Africa welcome European traders in the middle of the fifteenth century? a. They were hoping to evade the trade monopoly of the northern empires. b. They were eager to obtain European and American goods. c. They were hoping to enter the slave trade with the Americas. d. They hoped to enter the cattle trade that had made fortunes for Arab traders.

9. 8. Which statement describes religious practices in Africa prior to the sixteenth century? a. Africans in the southeast of the continent were predominantly Muslim. b. Africans along with western coast had converted to Christianity. c. People in East Africa tended to practice a form of Buddhism. d. Most West Africans believed in the presence of multiple gods.

10. 9. Which statement characterizes traditional slavery in Africa? a. It was universally abhorred as inhuman and cruel. b. Africans enslaved only people they considered racially inferior. c. Slaves were a key commodity of exchange. d. Slaves were treated like family members.

11. 10. Why were Hernán Cortés and his fellow conquistadors able to defeat Moctezuma's army? a. The Spaniards deliberately employed deadly European diseases. b. The Aztecs were already engaged in a brutal civil war with each other. c. The Europeans had an invisible ally—disease. d. Moctezuma was a popular leader but a terrible general.

12. Answer Key 1. The answer is b. 2. The answer is a. 3. The answer is c. 4. The answer is d. 5. The answer is c. 6. The answer is c. 7. The answer is a. 8. The answer is d. 9. The answer is c. 10. The answer is c.