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