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