Semester 1 Exam Review!

1. Semester 1 Exam Review!

2. POWERPOINT JEOPARDY History Networks of Exchange Black Death Discovery of America Slavery 10 10 10 10 10 20 20 20 20 20 30 30 30 30 30 40 40 40 40 40 50 50 50 50 50

3. Which of the following is an example of a primary source: • A. A textbook • B. An autobiography • C. An encyclopedia • D. A newspaper article from 2012

4. Which of the following is an example of a secondary source: • A. A history book • B. A letter • C. An autobiography • D. A photograph

5. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Numbers Paul E. Lovejoy, Transformations in Slavery, A History of Slavery in Africa, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, New York, c1983, second edition c2000 Paul E. Lovejoy What type of a source is this? Primary Secondary

6. Source: Richard Bridgens, West India Scenery ...from sketches taken during a voyage to, and residence of seven years in ... Trinidad (London, 1836), plate 11. What type of a source is this? Primary Secondary

7. Source: IbnBattuta, Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354, tr. and ed. H. A. R. Gibb (London: Broadway House, 1929) What type of a source is this AND who is the author?

8. Which of the following inventions or new technologies made travel on the networks of exchange much faster and efficient? • A. Paper Money • B. Gun-Powder • C. Camel Caravans • D. Ship-building

9. Feudalism, like the kind in Christina: A Medieval Life, was a political system in which • A. Power stayed in the hands of the King only • B. Power was distributed to landowners, such as lords and churches • C. Power was distributed to peasants who owned land • D. Power stayed in the hands of the army

10. The biggest difference between Europe and Asian empires in the period of Networks of Exchange was that Europeans… • Did not have any form of religion • Traded with America • Created important technologies like ships and gun-powder • Did not trade very much with the rest of Afro-Eurasia

11. Fill in the table below with the Empires that first invented these technologies

12. The growth of networks of exchange led to • decreased interest in inventions and technology • the limited migration of peoples • increased cultural diffusion • the development of agriculture

13. The Plague, or Black Death, started in the 1300s in • Europe • America • China • North Africa

14. I.______________________________ • A. Miasma (impure air) due to wind carrying the stench of bodies • B. Warm ovens • C. Too many shooting stars • D. Sin, Prostitution • In the outline above, which of the headings belongs on top? • A. Muslim explanations for the Black Death • B. Christian explanations for the Black Death • C. Muslim responses to the Black Death • D. Christian responses to the Black Death

15. Why did Europeans burn Jews in Germany during the Black Death? Europeans blamed the Jews for causing the Black Death

16. Where did the Black Death NOT spread during this time?

17. According to the Egyptian physician Ibn al-Nafis, the pestilence resulted from a corruption occurring in the substance of the air due to heavenly and terrestrial causes. In the earth the causes are brackish water and the many cadavers found in places of battle when the dead are not buried, and land which is water-logged and stagnant from rottenness, vermin, and frogs. As regards the heavenly air, the causes are the many shooting stars and meteorites… Source: Michael W. Dols, The Black Death in the Middle East (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1977), 88-9. What type of a source is this?

18. The major reasons for the decrease in the Native American population in the 1500-1700s was the introduction of European • A. Guns • B. Foods • C. Diseases • D. Culture

19. Define the term “Columbian Exchange” The exchange of foods, plants, goods, people and diseases between the Americas and the Afro-Eurasian World Zone that happened after Columbus discovered the Americas.

20. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that Europeans came to the Americas in the late 1400s: • A. To find gold and silver • B. To get more land for farming and expanding • C. To find religious freedom • D. To learn about new cultures

21. The biggest difference between the French and Spanish relationship with the Native Americans was that the French • A. Kept themselves separate from the Native Americans • B. Forced the Native Americans to convert to their religion • C. Killed the Native Americans in massive numbers • D. Traded furs and lived cooperatively with the Native Americans

22. What primary source did we study in class that proved it is a myth that people thought the Earth was flat? • The Atlas of Farnese, a statue with a round globe • Maps of the world • Writings of historians • The writings of Christopher Columbus

23. To buy slaves in Africa in the Triangular Trade, Europeans exported • A. Gold • B. Rum, Tobacco, and Molasses • C. Manufactured Goods, Guns • D. Cotton

24. Most African slaves in the Americas worked as • A. Domestic laborers or household servants • B. Miners • C. Field hands or farmers • D. Builders

25. What type of a source is this?

26. The major reason the Europeans first started bringing in African slaves to the Americas was because of the • A. Start of the farming of cotton • B. Death of Europeans living in America • C. Mining of gold in the Americas • D. Death of Native Americans

27. Fill in the table below with the places that goods/people were coming from and going to in the 1500-1800s

28. Final Jeopardy! Write down how many points you would like to risk for Final Jeopardy. Look at the source below and answer the two questions, you must get them both right to receive your points! Source: Marco Polo (1918). William Marsden. ed. The Travels of Marco Polo. London: J.M. Dent & Sons. p. 461. Retrieved 2011-05-29.(Original from the University of Wisconsin – Madison) Who is the author of this source? Is this a primary or secondary source?