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