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51 Cards in this Set
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Which is not an achievement of the Indians of North America in the thousands of years before Columbus's arrival?
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people in present-day Arizona constructed a large circle of red-earthen boulders.
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A significant outcome of the Portuguese arrival in West Africa was:
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an expansion of Africa's internal slave trade.
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Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
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Cortes's conquest of the Aztecs; Las Casas's Destruction of the Indies; Spanish abolition of Indian enslavement
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The English government in the seventeenth century was:
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a mixed government in which the power of the king was restrained.
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Which of the following European countries did not have a colonial presence in seventeenth-century North America?
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Germany
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At the time of first contact between Europeans and Native Americans, Native Americans had not developed:
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wheeled transportation.
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On the eve of the colonization of the New World, which was not the case in Europe?
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Drinking alcoholic beverages was against the law.
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Which was not a characteristic of American Indians?
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There were four different tribes in the Americas
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Which of the following was not a significant motivation behind European colonization in the New World?
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the spread of democracy to the Americas
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The oldest site in the present-day United States to be continuously inhabited by Europeans is:
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St. Augustine, Florida.
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Which was not a means by which Cortez conquered the Aztecs?
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He bombarded the Aztec capital from his Spanish galleons.
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Which was not a characteristic of "couverture"?
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Children became the property of the state upon a husband's death.
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The first African slaves were transported to the New World in what year?
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1502
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In the 1500s and 1600s, the Spanish in Central and South America relied on many of which of the following groups to work fields and mines?
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Indians
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Which was not expressed by Bartolome de Las Casas in A Very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indes in 1552?
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He believed that Indians ought to be allowed to continue to practice their native faiths as a true sign of Christian love and toleration.
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The freedom of a Christian man or woman meant/means:
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subservience, submission, and servitude to God
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In European exploration, conquest, and colonization of the New World after 1492, all of the following EXCEPT _________ were true:
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Europeans brought with them a broad-ranging tolerance for others' viewpoints; kindness and tolerance being the mark of civilized peoples.
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Which of the following was a characteristic or action of the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest?
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They diverted the Colorado River as part of their ritualistic ancestor-worship.
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Which of the following was not a prominent cultural belief among Indian societies of North America?
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Only holders of property should take part in tribal governance.
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Which of the following was not a notable feature of sixteenth-century Spanish America?
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The Spanish crown took little interest in the administration of colonial affairs.
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Which of the following was not a feature of Native American civilization prior to the voyages of Columbus?
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Large cities were unknown to the Americas.
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The chief goal of fifteenth-century Portuguese expansion was:
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the establishment of a trading empire in Asia.
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Which was not an aspect of Native American religious beliefs?
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Their written religious text was called the Wicca.
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Of the ten million people who crossed the Atlantic Ocean to settle in the Americas in the 328 years from 1492 to 1820 most were white Europeans.
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False
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In 1493, the Catholic Pope, Alexander VI, divided all the Americas between Spain and Britain.
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False
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Horses, cows, pigs, and sheep were unknown to the Americas until Europeans brought them there.
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True
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In 1537, Pope Paul III decreed Indian slavery ended, but not African slavery.
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True
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When Columbus first sailed to America in 1492, Christian Europe was entirely Catholic; twenty-five years later, following Martin Luther's 95 theses, the Protestant Reformation had begun, and Europe was thrown into more than a hundred years of Christian religious wars.
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True
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In 1492 the population of Europe was greater than that of the Americas.
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False
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Small-scale slavery in which Indians enslaved other Indians existed in Indian society.
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True
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The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was swiftly crushed by Spanish authorities.
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False
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The trans-Atlantic voyages of Columbus were sponsored by Spain, which had just achieved its own territorial unification.
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True
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When the author, Eric Foner, uses the term "unfree labor" he refers to those persons who were performing work not for free as volunteers, but for wages.
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False
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Little contact existed among the diverse Indian societies of North America.
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False
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Colonial America was a hierarchical society in which some European colonists were indentured servants, Indians were held in forced labor, and Africans were slaves.
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True
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At the time of first contact with the Europeans, perhaps 12,000,000 people lived in the Inca kingdom.
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True
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At the time of Portugal's Atlantic exploration, the economies of West Africa were organized chiefly around slavery.
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False
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To justify their colonial ventures, Spain invoked the threat of Protestantism.
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True
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On the eve of colonization of the Americas, freedom in Europe was framed in hierarchical, top-down terms, each level of society enjoying its own degree of freedom.
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True
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The Aztecs lived in a peaceful, non-violent society.
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False
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Europeans in the 1500s held firmly to the view that all men are created equal.
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False
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A strong immunity to European diseases strengthened Indian resistance to the conquistadors.
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False
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Before Europeans arrived in the New World, Native Americans were without extensive trading networks, irrigation systems, or large cities.
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False
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After four trips across the Atlantic, Columbus recognized he had not reached Asia.
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False
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New Netherland extended all the way down from Quebec to the lower Mississippi Valley.
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False
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Most Indian tribes were matrilineal.
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True
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Africans enslaved other Africans long before the arrival of European traders.
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True
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Most European men in the 1500s owned property and could vote.
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False
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Spanish settlers in the New World comprised a mix of laborers and soldiers, priests and bureaucrats, craftsmen and professionals.
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True
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During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries all European nations had established churches, and religious wars between nations (and sometimes within them) were fierce.
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True
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Perhaps 80 million Native Americans died in the century and a half following first contact in consequence of diseases carried by Europeans.
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True
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