HIST 172 Midterm #1
Prior to Columbus, all of the following crops were indigenous to the Americas EXCEPT: - ANS Wheat
Spanish monarch who sponsored Columbus's first voyage to the New World: - ANS Queen Isabella
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About 15,000 years ago, which land bridge was used by migrants to cross between Siberia and Alaska? -
ANS Bering Strait
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The term mestizo refers to - ANS An individual of indigenous and European heritage
The reconquista was the Spanish term for - ANS the European capture of the Iberian Peninsula from
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Islamic Moors.
Largest pre columbian settlement in North America, located on the banks of the Mississippi River, was -
ANS Cohokia
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"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
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you and your wives and your children, and shall make slaves of them." - ANS Il Requerimiento (1510)
The capital of the Mexica, or Aztec, empire was: - ANS Tenochitlan
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All the following factors explain why Spain conquered the Americas so rapidly, EXCEPT - ANS the
persistent Indian belief that the Spanish were "gods."
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"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." - ANS Columbus on the New Lands
he has "discovered"
The primary purpose of Columbus' voyage of 1492 was to: - ANS establish a new, quicker trade route to
Asia
, The following were part of Columbus's 1492 contract with the Spanish crown EXCEPT: - ANS
Columbus would be named Lieutenant Pope and religious leader of all new lands he encountered
The local Indians of what is today LA County are the - ANS Tongva/Gabrielenos
"[After much debate] We consider that the Indians are truly men and that they are not only capable of
understanding the Catholic faith, but according to our information, they desire exceedingly to receive it." -
ANS Pope Paul III in 1537
All of following were brought to the New World from Europe EXCEPT: - ANS corn
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The staple crop of most precolumbian civilizations was - ANS corn
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Dona Marina was - ANS an Aztec woman with a key role in the conquest of Mexico
"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 wonderously timorous." - ANS Columbus on the Taino
The Mogollon, the Hohokam, and the Anasazi peoples were North American cultures from which region
of the United States? - ANS Southwest
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Indigenous Americans suffered demographic losses of genocidal proportions in the 16th and 17th
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
"All iron was their war array. In iron they clothed themselves. With iron they covered their heads. And
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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
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"The cacique [Hatuey], who had never heard any of this before, and was told he would go to Inferno
where, if he did not adapt the Christian Faith, he would suffer eternal torment, asked the Franciscan friar
if Christians all went to Heaven. When told that they did he said he would prefer to go to Hell. Such is the
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fame and honor that God and our Faith have earned through the Christians who have gone out to the
Indies." - ANS Bartolomé de las Casas
Hernán Cortés was responsible for the conquest of the - ANS Aztecs
The cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico is an example of religious - ANS syncretism
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
