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History 172 Midterm 1 Exam Questions And Answers All Verified Hernán Cortés was responsible for the conquest of the - ANS Aztecs Identify the author of the following primary source quote: "We ask and require you that you consider what we have said to you, and that you acknowledge the Chu...

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History 172 Midterm 1


Hernán Cortés was responsible for the conquest of the - ANS Aztecs

Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
"We ask and require you that you consider what we have said to you, and that you acknowledge the




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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




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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." - ANS Il Requerimiento (1510)




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The staple crop of most pre columbian civilizations was - ANS corn

Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
"The people of this island all go naked, men and women, just as their mother bring them forth. They have
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no iron or steel, nor any weapons; nor are they fit thereunto; not because they be not a well-formed people
and of fair stature, but that they are most wondrously timorous." - ANS Columbus on the Taino

What food, developed by Native Americans, forms the center of the contemporary American diet? - ANS
corn
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All of following were brought to the New World from Europe EXCEPT: - ANS corn

The following were part of Columbus's 1492 contract with the Spanish crown EXCEPT: - ANS
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Columbus would be named Lieutenant Pope and religious leader of all new lands he encountered

Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
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"All iron was their war array. In iron they clothed themselves. With iron they covered their heads. And
those which bore them upon their backs, their deer [that is, horses], were as tall as roof terraces." - ANS
Mexica (Aztec) Account of the Spanish

Why were Native Americans spared the effects of most of the world's communicable diseases until
contact with the Europeans in 1492? - ANS Until that time, they had not domesticated any animals on a
large scale.

Spanish monarch who sponsored Columbus's first voyage to the New World: - ANS Queen Isabella

Prior to Columbus, all of the following crops were indigenous to the Americas EXCEPT: - ANS wheat

, Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
"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 spices, and great mines of gold." - ANS Columbus on the New Lands he
has "discovered"

Indigenous Americans suffered demographic losses of genocidal proportions in the 16th and 17th




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centuries. The number of native peoples dropped from 30-50 million in 1492 to 12 million by 1650. The
primary cause for this horrific decline was: - ANS Smallpox




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Which of the following was the most significant barrier to communication and technology transfer
between groups in the Americas? - ANS the north-south geography of the Americas




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Changes in European society that caused the expansion of European peoples into the New World after
1450 included - ANS technological advances in seafaring and weaponry.

Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
"[After much debate] We consider that the Indians are truly men and that they are not only capable of
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understanding the Catholic faith, but according to our information, they desire exceedingly to receive it." -
ANS Pope Paul III in 1537

The term mestizo refers to - ANS an individual of indigenous and European heritage

About 15,000 years ago, which land bridge was used by migrants to cross between Siberia and Alaska? -
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ANS Bering Strait

The cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico is an example of religious - ANS syncretism
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Largest pre columbian settlement in North America, located on the banks of the Mississippi River, was -
ANS Cohokia
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Both the Mogollon and the Hohokam peoples of the American Southwest tended to build their dwellings
near which of the following? - ANS streams

The Mogollon, the Hohokam, and the Anasazi peoples were North American cultures from which region
of the United States? - ANS Southwest

Most modern archeologists would agree that the earliest inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere came
from which of the following areas of the world? - ANS Asia

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