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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Maya.
B Olmecs.
C Aztecs.
D Pueblo peoples.
E Inca.
Question #2
A political divisions within the Aztec leadership.
B the exposure of the Aztecs to smallpox.
C the brutality of the Spanish conquistadores.
D the Spanish co-opting the Aztec religion.
E Spanish alliances with enemies of the Aztecs.
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 English, the Spanish, the Dutch
B the Dutch, the English, the Spanish
C the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch
D the English, the Dutch, the Portuguese
E the Portuguese, the Dutch, the English
Question #5
A banned intermarriage between Spaniards and Pueblos.
B began to export Pueblos out of the colony to be sold as slaves.
C attempted to convert the Pueblos to Catholicism.
D made efforts to suppress Indian religious rituals.
E demanded tribute from the Indians.
Question #6
A military expenditures were fiscally wasteful.
B English colonists should maintain rigid separation from an indigenous population.
C harsh treatment of indigenous populations could lead to rebellion.
D indigenous populations were essential as the major colonial labor source.
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 is historically inconclusive.
C was the death of the colony’s governor.
D was a severe food shortage.
E was a virulent malarial epidemic.
Question #8
A was made up of an exclusively African slave population.
B was introduced by Europeans.
C generally allowed certain legal protections for the enslaved.
D was considered a permanent condition for the enslaved individual.
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 entirely unaware of the existence of the Americas.
E were aware of the travels of the Norse seaman Leif Eriksson in the eleventh century.
Question #10
A visions from the world of spirits.
B human sacrifice.
C the natural world.
D the idea of apocalypse.
E ideas of male dominance.
