History 101 Chapter 1 Quizlet

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False

(Q046)

False

(Q049) Little contact existed among the diverse Indian societies of North America prior to European colonization.

False

(Q061)

False

(Q063) Most European men in the 1500s owned property and could vote.

False

(Q067) Horses, cows, and pigs were plentiful in the Americas before Europeans arrived.

False

(Q069) Perhaps 8 million Native Americans died in the century and a half following first contact, the greatest loss of human life in history.

False

(Q075)

False

(Q076) A common conception throughout Europe was that freedom was more political or social in status than a moral or spiritual condition.

False

(Q078) Portugal enslaved the Spanish to grow sugar on plantations in the Azores, Canary, Madera, and Cape Verde islands starting before European colonization of the Americas.

False

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False

(Q081)

Fe

(Q017) - The Seneca, Mohawk, and Oneida created the

Great League of Peace

(Q028) Which African kingdom provided Europe with most of its gold?

Mali

(Q037) For centuries before the conquest of the Americas, Europeans had intersected with__________ populations in North Africa and Eurasia.

Muslim

(Q020) - The southern portion of the Iberian Peninsula was occupied until 1492 by which of the following religious groups?

Muslims

(Q018) In the 1500s and 1600s, the Spanish in the Americas relied on which of the following groups to work fields and mines?

Native American workers

(Q019) The reconquista was the reconquest of

Spain from the Moors.

(Q007) The three European colonizing countries in North America in the seventeenth century were

Spain, France, the Netherlands.

(Q015) Bartolomé de Las Casas in A Very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies in 1552 argued that

Spanish people burned Native American children alive.

(Q047)

True

(Q048) A major goal of Spanish colonization was to convert Native Americans to Catholicism.

True

(Q053) Historians no longer use the term "discovery" to describe the Europeans' conquest and colonization of Native American societies after 1492.

True

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True

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True

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True

(Q074) Some people before 1492 arrived in the Americas by sea from the Pacific Islands and Asia.

True

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True

(Q040) Under the Dutch in North America, "half freedom" referred to

a labor and land relationship with enslaved Africans.

(Q038) In 1498, the explorer Vasco de Gama proved that

an eastern sea route existed to Asian countries.

(Q030) A child born of an Indian and a mestiza in the Spanish colonies was a

coyote.

(Q002) Slaves, in the traditional African example, tended to be

criminals, debtors, and captives in war.

(Q022) -WHo were the peninsulares in the Americas?

persons of European birth

(Q023) Who were the mestizos in the Americas?

persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin

(Q006) Indian societies of North America possessed the cultural belief that

spiritual power resided in all aspects of the natural world.

(Q005) Which of the following was a notable characteristic of sixteenth-century Spanish America?

the conquest of Native American societies

(Q001) The primary goal of fifteenth-century Portuguese expansion was

the establishment of a trading empire in Asia.

(Q029) Why did news of the 1492 voyage of Columbus spread rapidly in Europe?

the invention of printing with movable type

(Q043) How did Indians gain power in some areas after European colonization began?

they pitted European colonizers against each other

(Q066) The Aztecs lived in a peaceful, nonviolent society.

False

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False

(Q070) In 1493, the Catholic pope, Alexander VI, divided all the Americas between Spain and Britain.

False

(Q073) As the climate warmed, the early inhabitants of the Americas experienced a food increase as the immense animals they hunted increased in number.

False

(Q079) Modern Brazilians continue to venerate the Virgin of Guadalupe, who originated in the colonial era as a vision of the Virgin Mary with dark skin.

False

(Q080) The system by which Indian villagers remained legally free and entitled to wages but were still required to perform a fixed amount of labor each year was called hacienda.

False

(Q085) The French invented the joint-stock company, which proved central to the development of modern capitalism.

False

(Q014) How did Cortés conquer the Aztecs?

He relied on iron weapons and gun powder.

(Q010) This dwelling structure in New Mexico stood five stories high and had more than 600 rooms.

Pueblo Bonita

(Q051) The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was swiftly crushed by European colonial authorities.

False

(Q013) The first African slaves were shipped to the New World in what year?

1502

(Q055) Before Europeans arrived in the New World, Native Americans lacked extensive trading networks, irrigation systems, or large cities.

False

(Q024) Prior to 1800, the largest settled community in what is now the United States was

Cahokia.

(Q025) Which of these crops formed the basis of Native American agriculture?

Corn

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False

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False

(Q021) Why did the Pueblo Revolt take place?

Native Americans in New Mexico grew resentful of Spanish colonization.

(Q041) How did the Dutch settlers near present-day Wilmington, Delaware, circumvent the West India Company's trade monopoly over North American colonization?

They claimed to be operating under the Swedish flag.

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True

(Q056) At the time of first contact with Europeans, perhaps 12 million people inhabited the Inca kingdom.

True

(Q058) Small-scale slavery in which Indians enslaved other Indians existed in some Indian societies.

True

(Q059) In 1537, Pope Paul III outlawed Indian slavery, but not the enslavement of Africans.

True

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True

(Q071) When Columbus first sailed to America in 1492, Christian Europe was entirely Catholic; twenty-five years later, following Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses, the Protestant Reformation had begun, and Europe was thrown into more than 100 years of Christian religious wars.

True

(Q072) The absence of livestock in the Western Hemisphere before European arrival prevented the plowing of fields and the use of animal waste as fertilizer by Native Americans.

True

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True

(Q083)

True

(Q033) Women in Dutch settlements

enjoyed more independence than in other colonies.

(Q009) A major achievement of North American Indians in the thousands of years before Columbus's arrival was

large earthen burial mounds in the Ohio River Valley.

(Q011) Native American religious beliefs and practices included

medicine men in positions of authority.