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These are the questions (with
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mandated by the School Board of Palm Beach County, given in US
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Review 1. The biological exchange between the Americas, Africa, and Europe (the Old World) became known as the ____. 2. The Arawaks greeted Columbus on October 12, 1492. Their island, Guanahani, is located in the chain of islands we now know as ____. 3. Columbus made ____ voyages to the “New World.” He never once stepped on what would become the 48 contiguous states. 4. Beginning in the Ninth Century a new religion appeared in West Africa, it was ____. 5. Cristobal Colon, aka Christopher Columbus, born in the seaside city ____ in northern Italy, first tried to get the King of Portugal to finance a voyage to the Orient. He was turned down. Then it was off to Isabella and Ferdinand… 6. Isabella and Ferdinand of ____ financed Columbus’ first trip to the Americas in 1492. Interesting how the trip coincided with the end of the Reconquista. 7. Prince Henry the Navigator of ____ was a pretty forward thinking guy. He wanted to sail around the Muslims to find another way to trade with Africa and the Orient. 8. For a thousand years the ____ Church dominated the religious, social, and economic aspects of European life. Martin Luther, the Renaissance, and the Protestant Reformation would alter that... 9. There may have been 80--100 million people living in the Americas in ____ times. 10. The Aztec population plunged from roughly 25 million down to 1 million people. The Conquistador ____ is only partly to blame. Smallpox was his lethal ally. 11. The Viking Leif Erickson, in the year 1000, sailed to ____, a part of present-day Canada. 12. The New World sugar plantations fueled the greatest forced migration in world history. The need for labor made the ____ trade an integral part of European colonization of the Americas. 13. There were at least 1000 different languages spoken in the Americas at the time of this fellow's first voyage of exploration and discovery in 1492. 14. The textbook we use in class adheres to the ____ Theory as essentially the sole theory for the populating of the Americas. We know that's incorrect. There are multiple theories and paths used to explain the populating of the Americas. 15. The mummy of Pharaoh ____ has been found to have high concentrations of two New World products, cocaine and tobacco. Since he died more than a thousand years before Columbus “discovered” America scientists are at a loss to explain how these products made it to Ancient Egypt. 16. Spanish historians that followed the Conquistadors through their conquest of the Americas reported smallpox as being responsible for possibly 90% of the native American deaths. We know it was a major contributing factor in Cortes taking over the Aztecs in 1521. The other name for smallpox is...
17. Paradigm
(p 18. Cabot, Columbus, and Verrazano were all born in this city in northern Italy. 19. The ____was a time in European history characterized by a “rebirth” of arts, science, and learning. 20. The battle waged by Isabella and Ferdinand against the Semetic peoples of Spain, resulting in the expulsion of the Moors and Jews from that country, ended in 1491. It was called the ________________. 21. Haiti and the Dominican Republic share this Caribbean Island. 22. This fellow, with his essay that appeared in McGuffy’s Reader, is responsible for much of the myth surrounding Christopher Columbus. Didn’t he write about some headless horseman, too? 23. 1588, a tremendously important date in world history, is known for __________. 24. The most powerful city in all of Europe from the 1200s to 1500 was ____. Why? This city controlled all the European trade with the Near and Far East. 25. St. Brendan was an ____ monk who, as the story is told, sailed across the North Atlantic in a leather-clad boat to beat Columbus to the New World by six hundred years! But it’s Columbus that gets the parade down 5th Ave. in New York each October 12th. It’s just not fair! 26. The oldest permanently occupied city in what is now the United States of America is 27. The fellow that claimed most of North America for the English was another guy from Genoa. His 1497 voyage off what is today known as New England was something special. His name was: 28. Tom Dillehay has discovered evidence of people living in the southern part of present-day Chile at a place called Monte Verde. What makes this so amazing is that this “dig” is over ____ years old! 29. Juan Ponce de Leon “discovered” Florida in ____. Some historians believe he first landed around the mouth of the Loxahatchee River near present-day Jupiter. 30. Tenochtitlan is located under the modern-day city of ____. 31. Who is Charlie Crist?. 32. Barack Obama is the 44rd president of the US. What political party is he from? 33. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were from __________. The same country that gave us Osama bin Laden. Osama’s father was a rich construction company owner here. (Clue: It's two words. The second word is Arabia.) 34. Gutenberg invented the printing press in ____. All he did was spread knowledge like wildfire! 35. Who is Joe Biden?
36--44 Mapping
questions. Given an outline map of North America you'll be asked to
identify: 45--50 The Short Essay. On your answer sheet, using only the space provided, you will be asked to answer one of the following questions: A bit of prewriting/organizing is required. Complete sentences are required. Neatness is worth 1/5 of your answer. Please use the back and only the back of the answer sheet for your response. Have an introduction that gives a summary/restatement of the question. Incorporate a hook. Proofread your work. 45. Put yourself in the shoes of a Native American. Explain how you feel the beginning of every October, when Columbus Day is celebrated. Is this a happy day or sad day for you? Why? Give reasons (aka evidence) for your words. 45. Who is St. Brendan? When did he sail? Why isn’t St. Brendan recognized as the “discoverer” of America? 45. Give evidence to support the following: It wasn’t Hernan Cortes that defeated the Aztecs, it was Smallpox. 45. Who started the ridiculous story that Christopher Columbus proved the earth was round? Every semi-intelligent person in the world knew that from the time of the ancient Greeks. 45. Explain the FIVE theories that explain how the Americas were populated over 10,000 years ago. 45. John Cabot. What was his real name? Where did he come from? Who did he sail for? What did he claim? What year did he do what he did that makes him a person of interest for us? 45. What was the “Columbian Exchange?” Give some examples of what the exchange exchanged. 45. Explain what Martin Luther did in 1517 and how it changed the world. 45. How did a relative handful of Europeans defeat millions of native Americans in the conquest of the Americas. Be sure to include technology, mythology, and disease in your answer. Remember, you'll be asked to write on ONE of the above questions.
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The FPL fight in Wellington, Florida Many of our internet visitors want to keep up with what's going on in the battle to preserve the urban forest that makes up most of the Florida Power and Light easement that runs parallel to Wellington's northern border. Here's the latest in WhatDoYaKnow.com's foray into saving the planet. Click on the text to jump to the FPL Update.
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How the Mayan paradigm changed! From peaceful timekeeping priests to empire builders that spilled blood by the gallon to appease their gods. The Maya were an interesting people... One of the more sensational aspects of the Mayan Culture was the construction of their calendar. The closer we get to December 21, 2012 the stranger it gets. Sensational stories about the end of the world and disasters of Biblical proportion are starting to emerge. The History Channel is already filling the unsuspecting public's mind with this garbage. Mayan calendar priest, and there are still some around, say 12-21-12 merely the beginning of a "new time." Much like our turning the calendar page from December 31 to January 1--every year. There are a couple of points to ponder, though. The whole planetary alignment in our solar system with the center of the Milky Way and the earth's wobble moving back in the opposite direction (a once in 26,000 year occurrence) beginning on December 21, 2012 does give one pause. |
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