HIST 172 Midterm #1 Exam Questions
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Prior to Columbus, all of the following crops were indigenous to the
Americas EXCEPT: - Wheat
Spanish monarch who sponsored Columbus's first voyage to the New
World: - Queen Isabella
About 15,000 years ago, which land br...
Prior to Columbus, all of the following crops were indigenous to the
Americas EXCEPT: - ✔✔Wheat
Spanish monarch who sponsored Columbus's first voyage to the New
World: - ✔✔Queen Isabella
About 15,000 years ago, which land bridge was used by migrants to cross
between Siberia and Alaska? - ✔✔Bering Strait
The term mestizo refers to - ✔✔An individual of indigenous and European
heritage
The reconquista was the Spanish term for - ✔✔the European capture of the
Iberian Peninsula from Islamic Moors.
Largest precolumbian settlement in North America, located on the banks of
the Mississippi River, was - ✔✔Cohokia
"we ask and require you that you consider what we have said to you, and
that you acknowledge the Church as the Ruler and Superior of the whole
world, and the high priest called Pope, and in his name the King and
, Queen Doña Juana our lords [ . . .] If you do so, you will do well, and we in
their name shall receive you in all love and charity . . . if you do not do this,
I certify to you that, with the help of God, we shall powerfully enter into your
country, and shall make war against you in all ways and manners that we
can, and shall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church and of
their Highnesses; we shall take you and your wives and your children, and
shall make slaves of them." - ✔✔Il Requerimiento (1510)
The capital of the Mexica, or Aztec, empire was: - ✔✔Tenochitlan
All the following factors explain why Spain conquered the Americas so
rapidly, EXCEPT - ✔✔the persistent Indian belief that the Spanish were
"gods."
"Espaniola is a marvel; the mountains and hills, and plains, and fields, and
the soil, so beautiful and rich for planting and sowing, for breeding cattle of
all sorts, for building of towns and villages. There could be no believing,
without seeing, such harbors as are here, as well as the many and great
rivers, and excellent waters, most of which contain gold. In the trees and
fruits and plants, there are great diversities from those of Juana. In this,
there are many spiceries, and great mines of gold." - ✔✔Columbus on the
New Lands he has "discovered"
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