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

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