History Chap. 2 Quiz

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After spending 70 years working to convert the Pueblo people, Franciscan friars
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managed to graft a veneer of Catholicism over native culture.
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Europeans brought which of the following animals to the New World?
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cattle, goats, and pigs.
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An African known as Estevan and enslaved by the Spanish
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became an important trailblazer for Spanish explorers.
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The consequences of sugar production in the New World included
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stimulating the transport of millions of African slaves, colonizing Brazil, and revolutionizing European tastes.
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Between 1519 and the early 1800s, which of the following ethnic groups crossed the Atlantic to the Americas in greater numbers than any other?
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Africans
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Which of the following crops did Europeans use African slave labor to produce in the Americas?
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rice, tobacco, and sugar.
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The first colony organized around slave labor was Portugal's
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Madeira.
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English colonizing ventures in the New World differed from previous Spanish and Portuguese efforts in that English attempts were
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privately organized and financed.
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How did the Pueblo native people benefit from Spanish arrival?
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They had access to grain during times of drought, they had access to mission livestock, and they obtained Spanish military protection against enemy Apaches.
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"Demographic disaster also struck the populous Inca peoples of the Peruvian Andes...." Demographic refers to
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population
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Most African slaves sent to the Americas were
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war captives
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Within a single generation of Columbus's death, Spanish conquistadores
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explored, claimed, and conquered most of South America except Brazil and parts of North America.
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"Some Taino women married Spanish men and produced the first mestizo society in the Americas." Mestizo refers to a
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person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry.
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All of the following are true regarding the potato's role in the "Columbian Exchange" EXCEPT the
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potato decreased crop yields in calories per acre.
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While Spain began to exert its power on the other side of the Atlantic, the Portuguese
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concentrated on spreading their power to Africa and East Asia.
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Spanish and Portuguese explorations of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
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shifted commercial power from Mediterranean ports to those of the Atlantic.
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England began to take greater interest in overseas exploration as a result of all of the following EXCEPT
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improved ships that sailed faster and carried more cargo than before.
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The massive flow of silver bullion from the Americas to Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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triggered a century of inflationary pressures.
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Which of the following is true about Queen Elizabeth I of England?
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She initially disfavored overseas expansion, she ruled from 1558 to 1603, and she favored Protestantism.
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Why did the African slave trade begin?
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It was an attempt to fill a labor shortage in the Mediterranean world.