History Review Questions (1st POST!)

1) Create a chart with a list of Native Americans according to each region. For this chart give dates (if possible) for the raise and fall of the group. Also, include major achievements of each group.
Inupiat, Yupik, Inuit = Arctic Region
Tanalina, Cree, Ojibway, Onondaga = Subarctic Region
Blackfoot, Crow, Mandan, Sioux, Cheyenne, Omaha, Osage, Pawnee, Mound Builders, Wichita, Chickasaw, Comanche = Great Plains
Natchez, Choctaw, Creek, Yuchi, Seminole, Cherokee = Southeast
Papago, Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Pueblo, Apache = Southwest
Yakima, Palus, Nez Percé, Walla = Plateau
Pomo, Chumash = California
Tlingit, Haida, Kwakiutl, Nottka, Chinook, Tillamook = Northwest Coast
Ottawa, Winnebago, Sauk, Fox, Miami, Shawnee, Huron, Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, Narraganset, Mohegan, Pequot, Delaware, Powbatan, Algonquian = Northeast Woodlands
Walla Walla, Northern Paiute, Paiute = Great Basin
Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Senece, Narraganset, Mohegan, Pequot, Delaware, Powbatan, Algonquian




2) What is your general impression of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus?
Peaceful, quiet, very humble... and Columbus just had to come and ruin it all. >:[

3) What groups formed the Iroquois League? When was this group formed and for what reason?
Seneca, Onedia, Cayuga, Onondaga, Mohawk... and in 1720 later Tuscarora. This group formed to protect each other from other forces and they all united under nature to make a powerful nation that joined in 1500's. 

4) What are hieroglyphics? What Native groups used them?
The form of writing/recording history with symbols or pictures to represent things, ideas, sounds, and daily life in the era, developed by the Maya and used by Egyptians.

5) What type of dwelling was common among the people of the Southwest?
Stone dwellings known as Pueblos!!!

6) What was the first crop raised by Native Americans in Mexico?
Maize.

REVIEW FROM YESTERDAY - you should know and answer the following:

1) What was the population of the Americas in 1491?
Some used to believe that is was around 1-2 million. But others claim there were more than 100 million and that the small one-million/two-millions are Native populations after disease struck them and wiped them out.
2) What advantages did the Europeans have over the Native Americans?
Diseases! They brought diseases over and that drastically lowered the number of Natives that were in the way of the arriving colonists. They also had modern supplies, like
3) How did the crusades effect (or lead to) the discovery of the Americas?
It left the middle land/Jerusalem out of European rule, and in order to get certain goods and products/materials from the Eastern Lands. But taxation and tension led the Europeans to reluctantly travel east in order to make trade with the Chinese/Japanese/Indians. People needed to explore more trades routes from the West in order to circumnavigate the globe and end up on the other side of Asia to avoid interaction with the middle east.
4) What did Europe want in the East Indies (China, Japan, India)?
Commodities such as spices, herbs, and many other necessities of trade.
5) How was Marco Polo important to the Discovery of the Americas?
He ventured around to find more trade routes which inspired Christopher Columbus's journey?