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