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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Inca.
B Olmecs.
C Aztecs.
D Maya.
E Pueblo peoples.
Question #2
A the exposure of the Aztecs to smallpox.
B the Spanish co-opting the Aztec religion.
C political divisions within the Aztec leadership.
D the brutality of the Spanish conquistadores.
E Spanish alliances with enemies of the Aztecs.
Question #3
A It increased competition among nations.
B It assumed that exporting goods was preferable to importing goods.
C It presumed that the world’s wealth was finite.
D Its principles spread throughout Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
E It reduced the desire for nations to acquire and maintain colonies.
Question #4
A the English, the Dutch, the Portuguese
B the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch
C the English, the Spanish, the Dutch
D the Portuguese, the Dutch, the English
E the Dutch, the English, the Spanish
Question #5
A made efforts to suppress Indian religious rituals.
B began to export Pueblos out of the colony to be sold as slaves.
C banned intermarriage between Spaniards and Pueblos.
D attempted to convert the Pueblos to Catholicism.
E demanded tribute from the Indians.
Question #6
A indigenous populations were essential as the major colonial labor source.
B they should not try to convert indigenous peoples to English religious beliefs.
C harsh treatment of indigenous populations could lead to rebellion.
D military expenditures were fiscally wasteful.
E English colonists should maintain rigid separation from an indigenous population.
Question #7
A was a virulent malarial epidemic.
B was the death of the colony’s governor.
C was a severe food shortage.
D is historically inconclusive.
E deterred the English from another colonizing effort for forty years.
Question #8
A was made up of an exclusively African slave population.
B proscribed that children born of enslaved parents were also slaves.
C generally allowed certain legal protections for the enslaved.
D was considered a permanent condition for the enslaved individual.
E was introduced by Europeans.
Question #9
A believed the Americas consisted of little more than several small islands.
B had only heard of America from the travels of Marco Polo.
C assumed that the Americas were largely unpopulated.
D were entirely unaware of the existence of the Americas.
E were aware of the travels of the Norse seaman Leif Eriksson in the eleventh century.
Question #10
A visions from the world of spirits.
B the idea of apocalypse.
C ideas of male dominance.
D human sacrifice.
E the natural world.