HIST-110-002 - M Notes

28 important questions on HIST-110-002 - M Notes

What happened in June/July 1989?

The first sea kayak crossing of the Bering Straits

What happened on skis?

In 1998, Dmitry Shparo and his son Matvey made the modern crossing frozen Bering Strait.

What happened in March 2006?

Briton Karl Bushby and French-American adventurer Dimitri Kieffer crossed the strait on foot.
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How long did it take for a Korean team led by Hong Sung-Taek to cross on foot?

Six days

What does Archaological and DNA evidence indicates?

The earliest humans came to the Americas from Siberia and East Asia

What led to a widespread knowledge that a new continent existed west of Europe and east of Asia, starting in 1492?

Columbus's voyages

What is the landscape of North America?

Arctic tundra, dry plains, coastal wetlands, woodlands, deserts and temperate rain forests.

What is the climate of Mesoamerica?

Temperate climate and good agricultural land bounded by coastal plains, thick jungle lowlands with heavy rainfall and torrit heat.

What is the terrain of South America?

  • Edged by Andes,
  • highest mountain range in the Western Hemisphere,
  • three-fourths lowland plains.
  • Amazon River (4000 miles long)
  • lowland rain forests with dense growth

What shaped the history of Americas?

The geograpy and climate of Americas

Who was Amerigo Vespucci?

An Italian explorer. He wrote a letter about a decade after Columbus's first voyage.

What was Amerigo Vespucci's claim?

He was the first explorer to travel in 1497 to what is now Venezuela.

When was the 'new world' seen for the first time in maps?

1505.

Why did America appeared on the map?

Mapmakers read and believed the letter of Vespucci

Where does the name Indian com from?

Columbus

Who do Indian's call themselve?

Tainos. People from Islands called themselves different

What is an ancient story?

The search for better life.

What is the claim of Dante Alighieri?

My country is the whole world.

What happened under the banners in Europe?

  • Of refuge from religious persecution
  • Of escape from poverty
  • Of pure curiosity
  • of sinister colonialism
  • Empire building

What said Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

There are no longer any Frenchmen, there are only Europeans.

What said Irish statesman and political theorist Edmund Burke?

European Commonwealth

What did grow in Mexico?

Maize (corn)

What was the origin of maize?

Teosinte

How do they plant maize?

Most of the times along squash, beans and milpa

Why relied people in the Andes on potato?

Maize didn't do well in high altitudes.

What is chuñu/chuño?

Freeze-dried potatoes

Where are Ilamas and alpacas used for?

They were used by the people in the Andes to carry loads through the mountain paths.

What is found in the Rocky Mountains?

Obsidian

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