History 172 Midterm 1 Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions

History 172 Midterm 1 Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions Hernán Cortés was responsible for the conquest of the - Answer-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 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." - Answer-Il Requerimiento (1510) The staple crop of most precolumbian civilizations was - Answer-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 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." - Answer- Columbus on the Taino EMILLYCHARLOTTE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YAER ©2024 EMILLYCHARLOTTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH SEPTEMBER 2024 Page 2/12 What food, developed by Native Americans, forms the center of the contemporary American diet? - Answer-corn All of following were brought to the New World from Europe EXCEPT: - Answer-corn The following were part of Columbus's 1492 contract with the Spanish crown EXCEPT: - Answer- Columbus would be named Lieutenant Pope and religious leader of all new lands he encountered Identify the author of the following primary source quote: "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." - Answer-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? - Answer-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: - Answer-Queen Isabella Prior to Columbus, all of the following crops were indigenous to the Americas EXCEPT: - Answer- 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 EMILLYCHARLOTTE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YAER ©2024 EMILLYCHARLOTTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH SEPTEMBER 2024 Page 3/12 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." - Answer- Columbus on the New Lands he has "discovered" 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: - Answer-Smallpox Which of the following was the most significant barrier to communication and technology transfer between groups in the Americas? - Answer-the north-south geography of the Americas Changes in European society that caused the expansion of European peoples into the New World after 1450 included - Answer-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 understanding the Catholic faith, but according to our information, they desire exceedingly to receive it." - Answer-Pope Paul III in 1537 The term mestizo refers to - Answer-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? - Answer-Bering Strait The cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico is an example of religious - Answer-syncretism Largest precolumbian settlement in North America, located on the banks