This is some q's for a make - up history test I have to take and he never gave out the answers to study so I..

Question

need your help..
1. Which city was the site of the largest mound built by the Indians in the present day U.S.?
a.Cahokia b. Tiakal C.Tenochititlan
2. In the 1500's which european country was the most powerful colonial power in America?
A. Portugal B. Spain C. England
3. Who were the two most successfulconquistadors who conquered 2 great Indian Civilizations in America?
A. Francisco Pizarro and Hernando Cortez
B. Ponce De Leon & Cabeza De Vaca
C. Hernando De Soto & Fransisco Coronado

Answer 1

I can just give you the answers, but then you won't learn anything. Go on the Internet and run a search for each city and each name, you can even confine the search to Wikipedia. A quick read though of the article will tell you what you need to know.

Tenochtitlan is the modern site of Mexico City: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenochtitlan
Look at how few references there are for Tiakal
You can find information on the Cahokia Mounds: http://www.museum.state.il.us/vrmuseum/jshape/cahokia2.html
This site will give you a big clue to your answer: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/march/12/cahokia.htm

For number two look at who made the first around the world voyage and his nationality, look at who defeated the Spanish Armada, and look at who had the most colonists in America, and look at what language is spoken in America.

Number three is an easy one Ponce De Leon was looking for the fountain of youth, while Cortez and Prizarro were attacking the Mayan and Aztec cultures. Look up each name in Wikipedia and you will find some of their violent history. Cortez gave Montezuma, the king of his people, a choice to convert to the Catholic Religion or die. He then held him hostage to his people for huge ransoms of gold, and after all that he still killed him. Prizzarro only used 50 men to start his conquest, arrows can’t piece an iron breastplate, and guns make a lot of noise. Was it his brother or his son who came back for more?

Got to My Yahoo and look at the top of the page for the Yahoo search bar. Put each name in the search bar and look at the responses, read the first three paragraphs and you should have your answer. You can't realize just how helpful the Internet is for school. To learn this information I would have to go to the library, the reference section and the encyclopedias. Then I would have to pull out each book and check my spelling and then look up each article. In the time it takes me to find one article I could find answers to all three of your questions on either Google or Yahoo search.

I have all but given you the answers in this response; I have given you so much information that if you can’t find your answers then you need a tutor for your class. As your school carrier continues you will be required to assemble more and more information. Research papers, home quizzes and reports will all require information that can easily be found on the Internet. Once you learn how to search for this information it will be a whole lot easier in your current and future classes. What the calculator did for basic math the Internet Search function has done for finding information. Do you know when Christopher Columbus was born, how about George Bush, or George Washington? I don’t, but if I entered each name in a Wikipedia search I could find out the answers in less than 5 minutes. In the future, especially in college your teachers will expect more information and more facts from you, because these things are so easy to find. You could probably find the answers for your questions in your text book, but the information in a resource like Wikipedia you will find the information quicker, more of it, and much more current. You can’t trust everything you read on the Internet, but Wikipedia is a government sponsored organization (that’s what the dot org means in the Internet address). Ask your teacher about the sources of information, “How do I know I can trust a source of information, can I trust every first person account, what is a first person account?” If your teacher can’t answer these questions then write me and I will.

As for Jess's response does claimed land equal power? Thanks to an edict by the Pope Spain was allowed to control all non-Christian land west of a certain line of longitude (the run north to south), and Portugal was given permission to claim all non-Christian land east of this line of longitude. This is why the only country that speaks Portuguese is Brazil. Spain got a lot of gold and imports from America, but so did England. Yet Britannia Ruled the Waves was a slogan that started soon after this period. In the arms race of its time the best ships were the English Ships of the Line. Russian controls Siberia and can easily swallow North and Middle America in Siberia alone. Yet which country is the richest, and the most powerful? The US could have claimed the entire moon when they landed on it, but would that have given it control of the moon. Could we have stopped anyone else from going there or sending probes there? Power means so much more than land ownership, power means might, control, ability, technology and so much more.

I am not picking on Jess, I am trying to educate the reader of this answer.

Answer 2

1. (a) Cahokia
Tenochtitlan was the capital of the Aztecs. I'm not sure what Tiakal was, but it wasn't a mound.
2. (b) Spain
New Spain was the name of their huge territory in the Americas.
3. (a) Francisco Pizarro and Hernando Cortez
Pizarro conquered the Incas and Cortez conquered the Aztecs