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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Pueblo peoples.
B Maya.
C Olmecs.
D Aztecs.
E Inca.
Question #2
A the brutality of the Spanish conquistadores.
B political divisions within the Aztec leadership.
C the Spanish co-opting the Aztec religion.
D Spanish alliances with enemies of the Aztecs.
E the exposure of the Aztecs to smallpox.
Question #3
A Its principles spread throughout Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
B It reduced the desire for nations to acquire and maintain colonies.
C It presumed that the world’s wealth was finite.
D It increased competition among nations.
E It assumed that exporting goods was preferable to importing goods.
Question #4
A the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch
B the Portuguese, the Dutch, the English
C the English, the Dutch, the Portuguese
D the English, the Spanish, the Dutch
E the Dutch, the English, the Spanish
Question #5
A banned intermarriage between Spaniards and Pueblos.
B attempted to convert the Pueblos to Catholicism.
C began to export Pueblos out of the colony to be sold as slaves.
D demanded tribute from the Indians.
E made efforts to suppress Indian religious rituals.
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 English colonists should maintain rigid separation from an indigenous population.
E military expenditures were fiscally wasteful.
Question #7
A is historically inconclusive.
B deterred the English from another colonizing effort for forty years.
C was a virulent malarial epidemic.
D was the death of the colony’s governor.
E was a severe food shortage.
Question #8
A was introduced by Europeans.
B was made up of an exclusively African slave population.
C was considered a permanent condition for the enslaved individual.
D proscribed that children born of enslaved parents were also slaves.
E generally allowed certain legal protections for the enslaved.
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 aware of the travels of the Norse seaman Leif Eriksson in the eleventh century.
E were entirely unaware of the existence of the Americas.
Question #10
A the natural world.
B ideas of male dominance.
C the idea of apocalypse.
D human sacrifice.
E visions from the world of spirits.
