1. Who first migrated to and populated the Americas over 13,000 years ago?

2. What Native American people built the capital Tenochtitlán on the site of present-day Mexico City?

3. Why did the first American settlers cross the Bering Strait into the North American continent?

4. What invention enabled the agricultural revolution?

5. What region had the widest network of slave-trading centers in the medieval period?

6. Who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, demonstrating the possibility of traveling from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean?

7. The first Europeans to discover lands in the western Atlantic were

8. What is the name historians have given to the transfer of flora, fauna, and disease from Europe to the Americas that resulted in the deaths of millions of native people?

9. Who developed the ability to print with wood blocks, leading to the widespread use of woodcut pictures throughout Europe in the fifteenth century?

10. Weak monarchies and religious and political strife in both France and England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to which country’s domination of the Americas?

11. From what European country did the ill-fated settlers of Roanoke come?

12. In what area did many of sixteenth-century Spain’s poor find employment?