Question 1

Some of the more advanced Native American cultures did all of the following EXCEPT

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engage in significant ocean voyages of discovery.

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establish large, bustling cities.

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make strikingly accurate astronomical observations.

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study mathematics.

Question 2

The size and sophistication of Native American civilizations in Mexico and South America can be attributed to

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the development of agriculture.

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technology brought by the early settlers from Siberia.

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their use of draft animals and the wheel.

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their way of life based on hunting and gathering.

Question 3

What accounted for the large population densities among the Creek, Choctaw, and Cherokee peoples in the era prior to contact with European explorers?

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They developed a rich diet based on maize, beans, and squash.

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They successfully defeated their enemies and incorporated captives into their societies.

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Their cultures revered motherhood, which inspired high birth rates.

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They deliberately set massive forest fires to create better hunting habitats.

Question 4

Unlike the societies of Central and South America, the native people of North America

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lived in relatively scattered settlements without dense urban concentrations of population.

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were pacifists who opposed all warfare.

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aggressively exploited the land for agricultural development.

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practiced a universal system of patriarchal authority.

Question 5

What happened to the city of Tenochtitlán?

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Its temples were leveled and replaced by Christian cathedrals.

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It was seized and controlled by the Incans.

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It was destroyed during battles between the Portuguese and Aztecs.

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Its ruler Moctezuma was supplanted and replaced by Malinche.

Question 6

The Iroquois Confederacy was able to menace its Native American and European neighbors because of the Iroquois’

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ability to use its political and organizational skills to sustain a robust military alliance.

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scattered settlements, which made it difficult for their enemies to defeat them.

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alliance with the Aztecs and Incas.

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warriors' skill in pitched battle.

Question 7

How did the Christian crusaders play an indirect role in the discovery of America by Europeans?

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They created a European taste for Asian silk, drugs, perfumes, sugar, and spices.

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They developed an interest in inter-religious dialogue.

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They returned with captured Muslim maps showing the North and South American continents, piquing their interests in other parts of the world.

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Their victory over the Muslims freed up funds for travel.

Question 8

Western Europeans wanted to discover a new, shorter route to eastern Asia in order to

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break the hold that Muslim and Italian merchants had on trade with Asia.

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become the sole merchants of goods from Asia.

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test and develop new seafaring technologies.

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discover cheaper ways to manufacture various products.

Question 9

Which of these was NOT an important factor in setting the stage for Columbus’s exploration of the New World?

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There was explosive population growth in Europe.

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The Portuguese had demonstrated the feasibility of long-range ocean navigation.

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Africa was established as a source of slave labor.

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European demand had increased for more and cheaper products from Asia.

Question 10

What was Bartolome de Las Casas’ relationship to the encomienda system?

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He considered it immoral and protested it.

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He designed and implemented it.

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He convinced Moctezuma to provide slaves to Spanish settlements.

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He performed marriages between Spanish explorers and enslaved native women.

Question 11

European contact with Native Americans led to

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the deaths of millions of Native Americans, who had little resistance to European diseases.

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the use of tobacco by Native Americans.

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the Europeans' acceptance of the horse into their culture.

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he introduction into the New World of such plants as potatoes, tomatoes, and beans.

Question 12

Spain secured its claim to Columbus's discoveries in the ____, dividing the "heathen lands" of the New World with Portugal.

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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Peace Treaty of Quetzalcoatl

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Treaty of Tenochtitlán

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Treaty of Pontiac

Question 13

The institution of encomienda allowed the

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European governments to give natives to colonists if they promised to try to Christianize them.

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Europeans to establish an economy based on capitalism.

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native people to enslave members of other tribes.

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governments of Europe to abolish the practice of Indian slavery and to establish African slavery.

Question 14

Men became conquistadores because they wanted to

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spread Christianity while also satisfying their desire for gold.

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find wives and establish homesteads.

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prove their military might against native armies.

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gain unlimited access to free land for themselves in the New World.

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