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Question #1
 Native American religions were closely linked to
A.   ideas of male dominance.
B.   the idea of apocalypse.
C.   visions from the world of spirits.
D.   the natural world.
E.   human sacrifice.
Question #2
Regarding knowledge of the Americas prior to the fifteenth century, most Europeans
A.   were entirely unaware of the existence of the Americas.
B.   had only heard of America from the travels of Marco Polo.
C.   were aware of the travels of the Norse seaman Leif Eriksson in the eleventh century.
D.   assumed that the Americas were largely unpopulated.
E.   believed the Americas consisted of little more than several small islands.
Question #3
In the fifteenth century, slavery in Africa
A.   was introduced by Europeans.
B.   generally allowed certain legal protections for the enslaved.
C.   proscribed that children born of enslaved parents were also slaves.
D.   was made up of an exclusively African slave population.
E.   was considered a permanent condition for the enslaved individual.
Question #4
The cause of the failure of the Roanoke colony
A.   was a virulent malarial epidemic.
B.   deterred the English from another colonizing effort for forty years.
C.   was a severe food shortage.
D.   is historically inconclusive.
E.   was the death of the colony’s governor.
Question #5
From their colonial experiences in Ireland, the English concluded that
A.   they should not try to convert indigenous peoples to English religious beliefs.
B.   English colonists should maintain rigid separation from an indigenous population.
C.   harsh treatment of indigenous populations could lead to rebellion.
D.   indigenous populations were essential as the major colonial labor source.
E.   military expenditures were fiscally wasteful.
Question #6
In 1680, the Pueblo Indians rose in revolt against Spanish settlers after the Spanish
A.   banned intermarriage between Spaniards and Pueblos.
B.   made efforts to suppress Indian religious rituals.
C.   attempted to convert the Pueblos to Catholicism.
D.   began to export Pueblos out of the colony to be sold as slaves.
E.   demanded tribute from the Indians.
Question #7
In what chronological order, from earliest to latest, did European countries control the African slave trade?
A.   the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch
B.   the English, the Dutch, the Portuguese
C.   the English, the Spanish, the Dutch
D.   the Portuguese, the Dutch, the English
E.   the Dutch, the English, the Spanish
Question #8
Which statement regarding the economic theory of mercantilism is FALSE?
A.   It presumed that the world’s wealth was finite.
B.   Its principles spread throughout Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
C.   It reduced the desire for nations to acquire and maintain colonies.
D.   It assumed that exporting goods was preferable to importing goods.
E.   It increased competition among nations.
Question #9
Hernando Cortés’s conquest of the Aztecs in 1518 was made possible largely due to
A.   the Spanish co-opting the Aztec religion.
B.   the exposure of the Aztecs to smallpox.
C.   political divisions within the Aztec leadership.
D.   the brutality of the Spanish conquistadores.
E.   Spanish alliances with enemies of the Aztecs.
Question #10
The first truly complex society in the Americas was that of the,,
A.   Aztecs.
B.   Olmecs.
C.   Inca.
D.   Pueblo peoples.
E.   Maya.

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