Chapter 1 (True or False) | Mid-Term
"Christian liberty" was the basis for religious toleration.
False
African society did not practice slavery before Europeans came.
False
Agriculture did not come to the American continents, around Mexico and Peru, until around 1000 C.E.
False
Columbus established the first permanent settlement on Hispaniola in 1502.
False
Columbus first sailed to what is now Venezuela.
False
Columbus was Spanish.
False
Cortés conquered the capital city of the Aztec empire with an army of over 1,000 men.
False
Thanks to Martin Luther, the movable type printing press is one of the most important inventions in modern times, helping to rapidly disseminate information around the world.
False
The Spanish aim was to exterminate or remove the Indians from the New World.
False
The Spanish were the first to sail down the western coast of Africa, establishing trading posts, called factories.
False
The mound builders were a sophisticated ancient peoples living in the American Southwest.
False
Under English law, women held many legal rights and privileges.
False
When the Edict of Nantes, which had granted religious toleration to French Protestants (Huguenots), was revoked in 1685, 100,000 Huguenots fled France for New France.
False
By 1550, the Spanish empire in the New World exceeded the ancient Roman Empire in size.
True
During the Pueblo Revolt, the Indians destroyed symbols of Catholic culture, like crosses and statues of the Virgin Mary.
True
Like the Spanish, the French often intermarried with the Indians, resulting in mixed race children.
True
Most, although not all, Indian societies were matrilineal.
True
Peninsulares stood atop the social hierarchy in Spanish America.
True
Portuguese seafarers initially hoped to locate African gold.
True
Spain insisted that the primary goal of colonization was to save the Indians from heathenism.
True
The Indians of North America believed that land was a common resource and the basis of economic life.
True
The Indians, although diverse, all seemed to observe religious ceremonies centered around hunting or farming.
True
The Spanish reconquista required that all Muslims and Jews convert to Catholicism or leave Spain immediately.
True
The catastrophic decline in the native populations of Spanish America was mostly due to the fact that they were not immune to European diseases.
True
