Chapter 1 Quiz
Africans enslaved other Africans long before the arrival of European traders.
true
Most Indian tribes were matrilineal.
true
On the eve of colonization of the Americas, freedom in Europe was framed in hierarchical, top-down terms, with each level of society enjoying its own degree of freedom.
true
The first African slaves were shipped to the New World in what year?
1502
How did Cortés conquer the Aztecs?
He relied on iron weapons and gun powder.
Why did the Pueblo Revolt take place?
Native Americans in New Mexico grew resentful of Spanish colonization.
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.
Under the Dutch in North America, "half freedom" referred to
a labor and land relationship with enslaved Africans.
Women in Dutch settlements
enjoyed more independence than in other colonies.
A strong immunity to European diseases strengthened Indian resistance to the conquistadores.
false
Most European men in the 1500s owned property and could vote.
false
The European practice of "coverture" included that
in marriage, a wife surrendered her legal identity.
Native American religious beliefs and practices included
medicine men in positions of authority.
A "borderland" is a
meeting place of peoples where geographic and cultural borders are not clearly defined.
At the time of first contact between Europeans and Native Americans, Native Americans had not developed
metal tools and machines.
Who were the mestizos in the Americas?
persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin
Because French and Dutch settlements were more dependent on Indians as trading partners and allies than the English, Native Americans exercised more
power and freedom with Europeans in relations with these settlements.
The primary goal of fifteenth-century Portuguese expansion was
the establishment of a trading empire in Asia.
Why did news of the 1492 voyage of Columbus spread rapidly in Europe?
the invention of printing with movable type
Despite China's growing territorial power, their purpose in exploration was
to impress other world peoples with their might.