Semester 1 Exam Review!

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Which of the following is an example of a primary source:

A. A textbookB. An autobiographyC. An encyclopediaD. A newspaper article from 2012

Which of the following is an example of a secondary source:

A. A history book B. A letter C. An autobiography D. A photograph

What type of a source is this?

A. PrimaryB. Secondary

Period Number of Slaves Accounted For

Percentage of Slave Trade 

1450-1600 409,000 3.61601-1700 1,348,000 11.91701-1800 6,090,000 53.81801-1900 3,466,000 30.6Total Slave Exports 11,313,000 100.0

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?A. Primary

B. Secondary

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 AND who is the author?

Source: Ibn Battuta, Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354, tr. and ed. H. A. R. Gibb (London: Broadway House, 1929)

Which of the following inventions or new technologies made travel on the networks of exchange much faster and efficient?

A. Paper MoneyB. Gun-PowderC. Camel CaravansD. Ship-building

Feudalism, like the kind in Christina: A Medieval Life, was a political system in whichA. Power stayed in the hands of the King onlyB. Power was distributed to landowners, such as lords and churchesC. Power was distributed to peasants who owned landD. Power stayed in the hands of the army

The biggest difference between Europe and Asian empires in the period of Networks of Exchange was that Europeans…A. Did not have any form of religionB. Traded with AmericaC. Created important technologies like

ships and gun-powderD. Did not trade very much with the rest

of Afro-Eurasia

Fill in the table below with the Empires that first invented these

technologiesInvention/Technology: Empire(s) that invented these…

Ship-building

Paper-Money

Coin Money

Astronomy

The growth of networks of exchange led toa. decreased interest in inventions

and technologyb. the limited migration of peoples c. increased cultural diffusiond. the development of agriculture

The Plague, or Black Death, started in the 1300s in

A. EuropeB. AmericaC. ChinaD. North Africa

I.______________________________A. Miasma (impure air) due to wind carrying the stench of bodiesB. Warm ovensC. Too many shooting starsD. Sin, Prostitution In the outline above, which of the headings belongs on top?

A. Muslim explanations for the Black DeathB. Christian explanations for the Black DeathC. Muslim responses to the Black DeathD. Christian responses to the Black Death

Why did Europeans burn Jews in Germany during the Black Death?

Europeans blamed the Jews for causing the Black Death

Where did the Black Death NOT spread during this

time?

What type of a source is this?

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. 

The major reasons for the decrease in the Native American population in the 1500-1700s was the introduction of European

A. GunsB. FoodsC. DiseasesD. Culture 

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.

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 silverB. To get more land for farming and expandingC. To find religious freedomD. To learn about new cultures

The biggest difference between the French and Spanish relationship with the Native Americans was that the French

A. Kept themselves separate from the Native AmericansB. Forced the Native Americans to convert to their religionC. Killed the Native Americans in massive numbersD. Traded furs and lived cooperatively with the Native Americans

What primary source did we study in class that proved it is a myth that people thought the Earth was flat?

a. The Atlas of Farnese, a statue with a round globe

b. Maps of the worldc. Writings of historiansd. The writings of Christopher Columbus

To buy slaves in Africa in the Triangular Trade, Europeans exported

A. GoldB. Rum, Tobacco, and MolassesC. Manufactured Goods, GunsD. Cotton

Most African slaves in the Americas worked as

A. Domestic laborers or household servantsB. MinersC. Field hands or farmersD. Builders

What type of a source is this?

The major reason the Europeans first started bringing in African slaves to the Americas was because of the

A. Start of the farming of cottonB. Death of Europeans living in AmericaC. Mining of gold in the AmericasD. Death of Native Americans

Fill in the table below with the places that goods/people were

coming from and going to in the 1500-1800sGoods/People Coming From Going To

Slaves, Gold

Manufactured Goods, Guns

Rum, Tobacco

Molasses, Sugar, Cotton, Tobacco

Slaves, Ivory, Gum

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?