Part 1- A CONTINENT OF VILLAGES
REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. List the evidence for the hypothesis that the Americas were settled by migrants from Asia.
2. Discuss the impact of environmental change and human hunting on the big-game populations of North America.
3. Review the principal regions of the North American continent and the human adaptations that made social life possible in each of them.
4. Define the concept of "forest efficiency." How does it help to illuminate the major development of the Archaic period?
5. Why did the development of farming lead to increasing social complexity? Discuss the reasons why organized political activity began in farming soci-eties.
6. What were the hunting and agrarian traditions? In what ways did the reli-gious beliefs of Indian peoples reflect their environmental adaptations?
7. What factors led to the organization of the Iroquois Five Nation Confederacy?
Part 2- WHEN WORLDS Collide
1. HOW DID social change in Europe contribute to European expansion overseas?
2. WHAT FACTORS contributed to the defeat of the Aztecs and Incas by European forces?
3. WHAT Important differences were there between Spanish, English, and French patterns of colonization?
REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. Discuss the roles played by the rising merchant class, the new monarchies, Renaissance humanism, and the Reformation in the development of Eu-ropean colonialism.
2. Define a "frontier of inclusion." In what ways does this description apply to the Spanish empire in the Americas?
3. Make a list of the major exchanges that took place between the Old World and the New World in the centuries following the European invasion of America. Discuss some of the effects these exchanges had on the course of modern history.
4. In what ways did colonial contact in the Northeast differ from contacts in the Caribbean and Mexico?
5. In what ways might the English experience in Ireland have shaped expec-tations about American colonization?
Part 3- PLANTING COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA
1. HOW DID conditions in New Spain and New France differ from Virginia and New England?
2. HOW DIED tobacco change the nature of English colonization in Virginia?
3.WHAT WERE the social and political values of Puritanism and how did religious dissent shape the history of the New England colonies?
4. WHAT ROLE did the crown play in the founding of English colonies after 1660?
5. WHAT LED to violent conflict between Indians and colonists?
Part 4- SLAVERY AND EMPIRE
1. How DID the modern system of slavery develop?
2. WHAT IS the history of the slave trade and the Middle Passage?
3. HoW DID slavery in the North differ from slavery in the South?
4. HOW DID African slaves attempt to preserve African culture in America?
5. HOW DID slavery fuel the economic development of Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
6. How did slavery shape southern colonial society?