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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Olmecs.
B Inca.
C Maya.
D Pueblo peoples.
E Aztecs.
Question #2
A the brutality of the Spanish conquistadores.
B the Spanish co-opting the Aztec religion.
C political divisions within the Aztec leadership.
D Spanish alliances with enemies of the Aztecs.
E the exposure of the Aztecs to smallpox.
Question #3
A Its principles spread throughout Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
B It assumed that exporting goods was preferable to importing goods.
C It increased competition among nations.
D It presumed that the world’s wealth was finite.
E It reduced the desire for nations to acquire and maintain colonies.
Question #4
A the English, the Dutch, the Portuguese
B the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch
C the Dutch, the English, the Spanish
D the Portuguese, the Dutch, the English
E the English, the Spanish, the Dutch
Question #5
A made efforts to suppress Indian religious rituals.
B banned intermarriage between Spaniards and Pueblos.
C demanded tribute from the Indians.
D began to export Pueblos out of the colony to be sold as slaves.
E attempted to convert the Pueblos to Catholicism.
Question #6
A military expenditures were fiscally wasteful.
B indigenous populations were essential as the major colonial labor source.
C harsh treatment of indigenous populations could lead to rebellion.
D they should not try to convert indigenous peoples to English religious beliefs.
E English colonists should maintain rigid separation from an indigenous population.
Question #7
A is historically inconclusive.
B was a virulent malarial epidemic.
C was the death of the colony’s governor.
D was a severe food shortage.
E deterred the English from another colonizing effort for forty years.
Question #8
A was considered a permanent condition for the enslaved individual.
B generally allowed certain legal protections for the enslaved.
C was introduced by Europeans.
D proscribed that children born of enslaved parents were also slaves.
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 had only heard of America from the travels of Marco Polo.
D believed the Americas consisted of little more than several small islands.
E were aware of the travels of the Norse seaman Leif Eriksson in the eleventh century.
Question #10
A the idea of apocalypse.
B ideas of male dominance.
C visions from the world of spirits.
D the natural world.
E human sacrifice.
