Ch 1 Review

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

1502

(Q011) Native American religious beliefs and practices included

medicine men in positions of authority

(Q057) Most Indian tribes were matrilineal.

true

(Q023) Who were the mestizos in the Americas?

persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin

(Q014) How did Cortés conquer the Aztecs?

He relied on iron weapons and gun powder.

(Q021) Why did the Pueblo Revolt take place?

Native Americans in New Mexico grew resentful of Spanish colonization.

(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.

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

a labor and land relationship with enslaved Africans.

(Q033) Women in Dutch settlements

enjoyed more independence than in other colonies.

(Q046) A strong immunity to European diseases strengthened Indian resistance to the conquistadores.

false

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

false

(Q012) The European practice of "coverture" included that

in marriage, a wife surrendered her legal identity

(Q042) A "borderland" is a

meeting place of peoples where geographic and cultural borders are not clearly defined.

(Q008) At the time of first contact between Europeans and Native Americans, Native Americans had not developed

metal tools and machines

(Q036) 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.

(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

(Q027) Despite China's growing territorial power, their purpose in exploration was

to impress other world peoples with their might.

(Q062) 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

(Q064) Africans enslaved other Africans long before the arrival of European traders.

true