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