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Question #1
 Native American religions were closely linked to
A.   human sacrifice.
B.   visions from the world of spirits.
C.   the idea of apocalypse.
D.   ideas of male dominance.
E.   the natural world.
Question #2
Regarding knowledge of the Americas prior to the fifteenth century, most Europeans
A.   had only heard of America from the travels of Marco Polo.
B.   believed the Americas consisted of little more than several small islands.
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.   were entirely unaware of the existence of the Americas.
Question #3
In the fifteenth century, slavery in Africa
A.   was made up of an exclusively African slave population.
B.   was considered a permanent condition for the enslaved individual.
C.   was introduced by Europeans.
D.   proscribed that children born of enslaved parents were also slaves.
E.   generally allowed certain legal protections for the enslaved.
Question #4
The cause of the failure of the Roanoke colony
A.   deterred the English from another colonizing effort for forty years.
B.   was the death of the colony’s governor.
C.   was a severe food shortage.
D.   was a virulent malarial epidemic.
E.   is historically inconclusive.
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.   indigenous populations were essential as the major colonial labor source.
C.   English colonists should maintain rigid separation from an indigenous population.
D.   military expenditures were fiscally wasteful.
E.   harsh treatment of indigenous populations could lead to rebellion.
Question #6
In 1680, the Pueblo Indians rose in revolt against Spanish settlers after the Spanish
A.   made efforts to suppress Indian religious rituals.
B.   began to export Pueblos out of the colony to be sold as slaves.
C.   attempted to convert the Pueblos to Catholicism.
D.   banned intermarriage between Spaniards and Pueblos.
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 Dutch, the English, the Spanish
B.   the English, the Dutch, the Portuguese
C.   the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch
D.   the English, the Spanish, the Dutch
E.   the Portuguese, the Dutch, the English
Question #8
Which statement regarding the economic theory of mercantilism is FALSE?
A.   It reduced the desire for nations to acquire and maintain colonies.
B.   It increased competition among nations.
C.   It assumed that exporting goods was preferable to importing goods.
D.   Its principles spread throughout Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
E.   It presumed that the world’s wealth was finite.
Question #9
Hernando Cortés’s conquest of the Aztecs in 1518 was made possible largely due to
A.   Spanish alliances with enemies of the Aztecs.
B.   the Spanish co-opting the Aztec religion.
C.   the exposure of the Aztecs to smallpox.
D.   political divisions within the Aztec leadership.
E.   the brutality of the Spanish conquistadores.
Question #10
The first truly complex society in the Americas was that of the,,
A.   Olmecs.
B.   Maya.
C.   Aztecs.
D.   Inca.
E.   Pueblo peoples.

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