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