Week 1 Quiz

For a question about a 1620 crossing of the Atlantic, how should a 1999 museum exhibit label explaining that crossing be sorted?

Select one.

• As a primary source, because it is more than twenty years old
• As a secondary source, because it is a later account that interprets the crossing
• As a primary source, because a museum is an official body
• As neither, because a label cannot be evidence of anything

A sailor kept a log during a 1620 crossing of the Atlantic, item 1 of the course's illustrative source-sorting set. For a question about that crossing, which kind of source is the log?

Select one.

• Secondary, because a sailor was not trained to interpret events
• Secondary, because the log is now kept in an archive
• Neither kind, because a log records weather rather than history
• Primary, because it was made during the crossing it describes

The course reads Ferdinand and Isabella's 1492 document for Columbus on the Avalon Project. Which description sources that text correctly?

Select one.

• A royal grant, read in an English translation
• Columbus's own letter, in his own words
• A treaty between two crowns, in the original Spanish
• A historian's later summary of the voyage

The text of the Treaty of Tordesillas that the course reads on the Avalon Project is an English translation, and the page is headed TRANSLATION.

True or false.

• True
• False

The pinned fragment "drawn north and south, from pole to pole" comes from which of the week's documents?

Select one.

• Columbus's letter on the first voyage
• Ferdinand and Isabella's royal grant to Columbus
• The Treaty of Tordesillas between two crowns

Which list puts these four events in the order they happened, earliest first?

Select one.

• The Treaty of Tordesillas, Columbus's first voyage, the founding of St. Augustine, the fall of Tenochtitlán
• Columbus's first voyage, the Treaty of Tordesillas, the fall of Tenochtitlán, the founding of St. Augustine
• Columbus's first voyage, the fall of Tenochtitlán, the Treaty of Tordesillas, the founding of St. Augustine
• Columbus's first voyage, the Treaty of Tordesillas, the founding of St. Augustine, the fall of Tenochtitlán

St. Augustine was founded in 1565 and Jamestown in 1607. Which statement compares the two settlements correctly?

Select one.

• St. Augustine is older, by 42 years
• Jamestown is older, by 42 years
• St. Augustine is older, by 58 years
• Jamestown is older, by 115 years

Cortés's expedition landed in Mexico, and within two years war and diseases new to the Americas had destroyed Tenochtitlán. Which course term names one people taking control of another's land and government by force, as happened at Tenochtitlán?

Select one.

• Contact
• Corroboration
• Conquest
• Periodization

Which of these crossed from the Americas to the Old World in the Columbian Exchange? Select all that apply.

Select every option that applies.

• maize
• horses
• tomatoes
• smallpox
• cacao
• wheat

The Columbian Exchange ran in one direction only, carrying crops, animals, and diseases from the Old World to the Americas.

True or false.

• True
• False