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Around 7000 B.C.E., agriculture developed in the Americas around: - Answer-Mexico
and the Andes.
The city situated along the Mississippi River with between 10,000 and 30,000 residents
in the year 1200 is today known as: - Answer-Cahokia.
Before the arrival of Columbus, Native North Americans: - Answer-had elaborate trade
networks.
Which statement about the Indians of North America is FALSE? - Answer-Indians
lacked genuine religion.
Which one of the following is TRUE about Native Americans and material wealth? -
Answer-Chiefs were expected to share some of their goods rather than hoard them.
Europeans—particularly the English, French, and Dutch—generally claimed North
American Indian land as their own based on: - Answer-their view that Indians did not
use the land properly.
Coverture" refers to: - Answer-a woman surrendering her legal identity when she
marries.
Slavery in Africa: - Answer-involved the enslavement of criminals, debtors, and war
captives.
Which statement about gender relations is FALSE for most Native American societies? -
Answer-Tribal leaders were almost always women.
What geographic error did Columbus make? - Answer-He grossly underestimated the
size of the Earth.
Amerigo Vespucci: - Answer-helped to correct Columbus's theory that he had found a
route to Asia
In 1519, who became the first European explorer to encounter the Aztec empire? -
Answer-Hernán Cortés
The Columbian Exchange was: - Answer-the transatlantic flow of plants, animals, and
germs that began after Christopher Columbus reached the New World.
, The government of the Spanish empire in America: - Answer-included local officials who
over time came to hold more power.
The Spanish justified their claim to land in the New World through all of the following
EXCEPT: - Answer-defeating the English fleet in 1588.
The New Laws of 1542: - Answer-commanded that Indians no longer be enslaved in
Spanish possessions.
Which one of the following lists the events in proper chronological order, from first to
last? - Answer-Spain adopts New Laws, Quebec founded, the Dutch settle Manhattan,
Pueblo Revolt
Spanish Florida: - Answer-was little more than an isolated military settlement.
Which statement about the Pueblo Revolt is FALSE? - Answer-It resulted in a wholesale
expulsion of the Spanish settlers
Which one of the following was TRUE of New France? - Answer-Its population was
limited at best, because France feared that a significant emigration would undermine its
role as a great European power.
Which one of the following was TRUE of French relations with Native Americans? -
Answer-Jesuit missionaries tried to convert Native Americans but gave them far more
independence than did Spanish missionaries.
Which European country dominated international commerce in the early seventeenth
century? - Answer-The Netherlands
Which one of the following is TRUE of freedom in New Netherland? - Answer-Married
women retained a legal identity separate from that of their husbands.
How did the Dutch manifest their devotion to liberty? - Answer-They supported
tolerance in religious matters in their colony.
What does the seal of New Netherland, adopted by the Dutch West India Company in
1630, suggest is central to the colony's economic prospects? - Answer-fur
The 104 settlers who remained in Virginia after the ships that brought them from
England returned home: - Answer-were all men, reflecting the Virginia Company's
interest in searching for gold as opposed to building a functioning society.
Just as the reconquest of Spain from the Moors established patterns that would be
repeated in Spanish New World colonization, the methods used in which one of the
following countries anticipated policies England would undertake in America? - Answer-
Ireland
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