CHAPTER 1

Prior to 1800, the largest settled community in what is now the United States was:

Spanish settlers in the New World comprised a mix of laborers, soldiers, priests, bureaucrats, craftsmen, and professionals.

Between 1492 and 1820, approximately 20 million African slaves came from the Old World to the New World.

The reconquista happened in what year?

Which of the following was not a notable feature of sixteenth-century Spanish America?

In 1492, the population of Europe was greater than that of the Americas.

Little contact existed among the diverse Indian societies of North America.

At the time of Portugal's Atlantic exploration, the economies of West Africa were organized chiefly around slavery.

Small-scale slavery in which Indians enslaved other Indians existed in Indian society.

Africans enslaved other Africans long before the arrival of European traders.

A significant outcome of the Portuguese arrival in West Africa was:

Which is not an achievement of the Indians of North America in the thousands of years before Columbus's arrival?

The chief goal of fifteenth-century Portuguese expansion was:

Who were the peninsulares?

To justify their colonial ventures, Spain invoked the threat of Protestantism.

When Columbus first sailed to America in 1492, Christian Europe was entirely Catholic| twenty-five years later, following Martin Luther's 95 Theses, the Protestant Reformation had begun, and Europe was thrown into more than 100 years of Christian religious wars.

At the time of first contact with the Europeans, perhaps 12 million people lived in the Inca kingdom.

New Netherland extended all the way down from Quebec to the lower Mississippi Valley.

Which was not expressed by Bartolomé de Las Casas in A Very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indes in 1552?

Before Europeans arrived in the New World, Native Americans were without extensive trading networks, irrigation systems, or large cities.

Which was not a characteristic of American Indians?

Of the 10 million people who crossed the Atlantic Ocean to settle in the Americas in the 328 years from 1492 to 1820, most were white Europeans.

The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was swiftly crushed by Spanish authorities.

In the Spanish colonies, race and class were not important.

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?