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