Question 1
Portuguese exploration in the late fifteenth century concentrated on finding a route to the Orient by sailing around Africa.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Question 2
The civilizations and political systems of pre-Columbian Native Americans north of Mexico were less elaborate than those of the peoples to the south.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Question 3
The cause of the failure of the Roanoke colony
A. was the death of the colony's governor.
B. was a severe food shortage.
C. was a virulent malarial epidemic.
D. is historically inconclusive.
E. deterred the English from another colonizing effort for forty years.
Question 4
The colony of Virginia was named in honor of
A. Virginia Dare.
B. Queen Mary.
C. QueenElizabeth.
D. Humphrey Gilbert.
E. Walter Raleigh.
Colony of Elder aphids, Aphis sambuci.
Ants Colony
Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor)(detail).
Mary Cassatt, The Map (The Lesson).
Mask of an iyoba (queen mother), probably Idia, Court of Benin, Nigeria.
How Skeletal Muscles are Named