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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Inca.
B Maya.
C Olmecs.
D Aztecs.
E Pueblo peoples.
Question #2
A the Spanish co-opting the Aztec religion.
B political divisions within the Aztec leadership.
C the brutality of the Spanish conquistadores.
D Spanish alliances with enemies of the Aztecs.
E the exposure of the Aztecs to smallpox.
Question #3
A It assumed that exporting goods was preferable to importing goods.
B Its principles spread throughout Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
C It presumed that the world’s wealth was finite.
D It reduced the desire for nations to acquire and maintain colonies.
E It increased competition among nations.
Question #4
A the English, the Dutch, the Portuguese
B the Portuguese, the Dutch, the English
C the Dutch, the English, the Spanish
D the English, the Spanish, the Dutch
E the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch
Question #5
A began to export Pueblos out of the colony to be sold as slaves.
B banned intermarriage between Spaniards and Pueblos.
C demanded tribute from the Indians.
D attempted to convert the Pueblos to Catholicism.
E made efforts to suppress Indian religious rituals.
Question #6
A harsh treatment of indigenous populations could lead to rebellion.
B military expenditures were fiscally wasteful.
C indigenous populations were essential as the major colonial labor source.
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 #7
A was a virulent malarial epidemic.
B is historically inconclusive.
C was a severe food shortage.
D was the death of the colony’s governor.
E deterred the English from another colonizing effort for forty years.
Question #8
A proscribed that children born of enslaved parents were also slaves.
B was made up of an exclusively African slave population.
C generally allowed certain legal protections for the enslaved.
D was introduced by Europeans.
E was considered a permanent condition for the enslaved individual.
Question #9
A had only heard of America from the travels of Marco Polo.
B were entirely unaware of the existence of the Americas.
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 believed the Americas consisted of little more than several small islands.
Question #10
A human sacrifice.
B ideas of male dominance.
C the natural world.
D the idea of apocalypse.
E visions from the world of spirits.