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