Kevin Stewart

Columbian Exchange a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life. Conquistadors Spanish explorers and warriors who successfully conquered much of America in the 16th century. Creoles a person born in the West Indies or Spanish […]

question On margin answer Buying with a small down payment and borrowing the rest of the money question Hoovervilles answer Shanty towns that the unemployed built in the cities during the early years of the Depression; the name given to them shows that the people blamed Hoover directly for the Depression. built of anything they […]

question The stage at which inventors try to determine a marketable use for a device is known as the _____ stage. answer Entrepreneurial stage. pg. 11 question What were the first mass-marketed products in history? answer Books pg. 7 question The term _____ refers to the phase in a medium’s evolution in which older media […]

question 1: sanctuary answer the area around the principle altar in the Christian church question 1: doorjambs answer vertical portion of frame onto which door is secured question 1: shear stresses answer a force occurring parallel to a plan, pulling it in all directions question 1: wigwams answer Nomadic hut built by the Nat. Amer. […]

question On what memorable day in history does this story take place? answer November 22, 1963 — the day President Kennedy was assassinated. question How does the narrator first become aware of Eugene? answer She sees him from her fire escape, where she likes to read. question Why does the narrator like Eugene even before […]

question The most abundant molecule in the human body is… answer Water question What are the four most abundant elements in a human body? answer Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Hydrogen question Which three cellular components are present in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes? A. ribosomes, chloroplasts, mitochondria B. nucleus, ribosomes, RNA C. RNA, DNA, ribosomes D. endoplasmic […]

question Imperialism answer the takeover of a country or territory by a stronger nation with with the intent of dominating the political, economic and social life of the people of that nation question What were other European imperialist nations? answer England, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Holland and Italy question Who was the strongest government at […]

question Archaeologists learn about ancient people by studying answer artifacts question Lucy was a skeleton of a answer hominid question Paleolithic means answer old stone age question The developement of fire and clothing meant that prehistoric people could answer move to colder areas question Neanderthals were different from hominids because they answer buried their dead […]

question Hierocracy answer rule by priest question Altamira answer Famous upper paleolithic cave paintings discovered in Spain question Code of Hammrabi answer The upper level was treated better than the lower level Consisted the first law giver Each law was written down and consisted of 282 total Laws had intense punishment (EX: If caught stealing […]

question Ming period of rule answer 1368-1644 question Ming replaced answer The Mongols in 1368 (Yuan Dynasty) question Ming replaced by answer The Qing dynasty in 1644 (Manchu) question Ming economy answer Based on trade and agriculture until 1433 when China began a policy of isolationism. After this point, trade suffered. question Ming government answer […]

question A primary purpose for building the Suez Canal was to answer increase trade between the Middle East, Europe and Asia question Which is an accurate statement about the partitioning of Africa by European imperialist nations during the 1800’s? answer the cultural and ethnic diversity of the African people was disregarded question After 1880, European […]

question Chinese Exclusion Act answer In 1890, Congress passed this act which prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited their civil rights of the Chinese already in the US, and forbade naturalization of Chinese residents. Very prominent in San Francisco. Significant because the Chinese were hard workers and couldn’t come to America to start over again. […]

question Bedouin answer predominantly desert-dwelling Arabian ethnic group.means those in the desert,a hierarchy of loyalties based on proximity of kinship that runs from the nuclear family through the lineage, the tribe, and, in principle at least, to an entire genetic or linguistic group. when plies were plentiful tents would travel with others known as glum. […]

question What was the language of the church? answer Latin question What did medieval scholars focus more on? answer Religious beliefs and spirituality question What was Renaissance ideal? answer A person with talents in many fields question What was an intellectual movement that occurred during the heart of the Italian Renaissance? answer humanism question What […]

question Andrew Johnson believed that Reconstruction should _______. Select one: a. guarantee that the Southern ruling class would not regain power b. treat the South as a conquered nation c. return the South to its prewar system, minus slavery d. follow the plan that had been outlined by Lincoln e. guarantee the civil rights of […]

question empiricism answer the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation question structuralism answer an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind question functionalism answer a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral […]

question When geologists refer to the “Big Five,” what are they referring to? answer The five largest mass extinctions in Earth’s history. question The main causes of the disasters that cause mass extinctions seem to come either from above, in the form of deadly asteroids or comets, or from below, in the form of extreme […]

question Justinian answer Justinian I(c. 482 – 14 November 565), commonly known as Justinian the Great, was Byzantine Emperor from 527 to 565. During his reign, Justinian sought to revive the Empire’s greatness and reconquer the lost western half of the historical Roman Empire. One of the most important figures of Late Antiquity and the […]

question United Nations (UN) answer An international peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and economic development question Satellite nation answer A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation question Containment answer The blocking of another nation’s attempts to spread its […]

question Muhammad Ali answer Leader of Egyptian modernization in the early nineteenth century. He ruled Egypt as an Ottoman governor, but had imperial ambitions. His descendants ruled Egypt until overthrown in 1952. (p. 652) question Janissaries answer Infantry, originally of slave origin, armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the […]

question Code of Hammurabi answer A series of laws publicized at the order of King Hammurabi of Babylon. Not actually a code, but a number of laws that proclaim the king’s commitment to social order. question Cradle of civilization answer Commonly used term for southern Mesopotamia (in present-day Iraq). question Cuneiform answer Wedge-shaped writing in […]

question Eli Whitney answer inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts question Mass Production answer the making of goods in large quantities made possible by factories, machinery and the division of labor question Henry Clay answer Speaker of the House of Representatives from Kentucky who promoted the American System question American System answer an […]