Exam 1: A New World

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A) Kidnapping a leader and holding him for ransom
B) Dividing and conquering them by taking advantage of old rivalries
C) Relying upon the spread of diseases, even though they may not have been introduced intentionally
D) Negotiating treaties
E) Using their superior military technology

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A) Pequot
B) Lenni Lenape
C) Iroquois
D) Cherokee
E) Huron

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A) Men and women engaged in premarital sex.
B) It was acceptable for a woman to seek a divorce.
C) Tribal leaders were almost always women.
D) Women owned dwellings and tools.
E) Societies were matrilineal.

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A) claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500
B) founded Quebec
C) Italian who sailed for Spain in 1492
D) Dominican priest who preached
E) British economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations
F) Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
G) sailed around southern Africa and into the Indian Ocean
H) America was named for him
I) first European to discover Newfoundland in 1497
J) explored Florida
K) led seven large naval expeditions in early 1400s
L) developed movable-type printing press

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A) claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500
B) founded Quebec
C) Italian who sailed for Spain in 1492
D) Dominican priest who preached
E) British economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations
F) Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
G) sailed around southern Africa and into the Indian Ocean
H) America was named for him
I) first European to discover Newfoundland in 1497
J) explored Florida
K) led seven large naval expeditions in early 1400s
L) developed movable-type printing press

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A) Over time, Spanish America evolved into a hybrid culture-part Spanish, part Indian, and, in some areas, part African.
B) Mestizos enjoyed much political freedom and held most of the high government positions.
C) Spaniards outnumbered the Indian inhabitants after fifty years of settlement.
D) The Catholic Church played only a minor role in Spanish America.
E) Spanish America was very rural and had few urban centers.

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A) officially designated Indians in New Spain as slaves of European colonists.
B) recognized Indians as free but required them to perform a fixed amount of labor.
C) gave voting rights in local assemblies to mestizos but not to peninsulares.
D) required all Indians to convert to Catholicism or face execution.
E) set up a system of local courts of law that proved essential to Spanish rule in Peru.

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A) society centered on the mother's family
B) Spanish brutality
C) uprising against Spanish colonists in New Spain
D) Dutch landowners of large estates
E) large-scale farm owned by a Spanish landlord
F) persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin
G) Spanish reform measures toward Indians
H) a married woman surrendering her legal identity
I) transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between New and Old Worlds
J) Confederation of five Iroquois tribes
K) Person born in the Spanish colonies of European ancestry
L) ancient residents of the Mississippi Valley region

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A) Many of the early arrivals came to direct Native American labor.
B) From the beginning, they arrived as families.
C) They were all at the bottom of the social hierarchy.
D) They soon outnumbered Native Americans.
E) Only the residents of the Malaga province migrated.

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A) was a very democratic colony.
B) was founded by Jesuit priests who were working as fur traders as a way to meet and convert Native Americans.
C) consisted mainly of male colonists.
D) had, by 1700, twice as many colonists as all the English North American colonies combined.
E) gave the French a world monopoly on fur production.

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A) Amsterdam
B) Geneva
C) Marseilles
D) London
E) Brussels

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A) occurred one at a time and therefore were minimal.
B) prompted most Aztecs to oppose their leaders, who opposed the sacrifices.
C) disgusted Europeans despite their own practices of publicly executing criminals and burning witches at the stake.
D) were always held at an arena in Tenochtitlán that resembled the Roman Colosseum.
E) cost the Spanish several hundred men before Cortés conquered the Aztecs.

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A) society centered on the mother's family
B) Spanish brutality
C) uprising against Spanish colonists in New Spain
D) Dutch landowners of large estates
E) large-scale farm owned by a Spanish landlord
F) persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin
G) Spanish reform measures toward Indians
H) a married woman surrendering her legal identity
I) transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between New and Old Worlds
J) Confederation of five Iroquois tribes
K) Person born in the Spanish colonies of European ancestry
L) ancient residents of the Mississippi Valley region

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A) Spain needed to institute a more humane system of Native American slavery in order to avoid offending Pope Paul III.
B) Spain had caused the deaths of millions of innocent people in the New World.
C) despite his opposition to slavery, he needed to keep his slaves so that he would have time to devote to working for abolition and emancipation.
D) slavery needed to be eliminated entirely from the earth.
E) converting Native Americans to anything but Catholicism would lead to their death.

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