Quiz 2 Over Ch. 2

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Within a single generation of Columbus's death, Spanish conquistador's
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explored, claimed, and conquered most of South America, Central America, and parts of North America.
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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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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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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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Why did the African slave trade begin?
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Europeans wanted to fill a labor shortage in the Mediterranean world.
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The first English attempts to colonize on Roanoke Island in the 1580s
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failed to establish successful relations with Native Americans.
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Most African slaves sent to the Americas were
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war captives.
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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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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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The first colony organized around slave labor was Portugal's
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Madeira.
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Christopher Columbus believed he had landed in Asia rather than the Western Hemisphere in 1492.
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true
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John Calvin's teachings implied that the highest born and most privileged on earth were doomed to burn in hell while the lowest were predestined for salvation.
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false
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Brazil under Portuguese control became one of the most profitable colonies of the Americas.
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true
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Probably the most important and valued region of the Spanish Empire in the Americas was the northern borderlands, the present-day Sun Belt of the United States.
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false
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Thousands of Aztecs in Mexico died from a smallpox epidemic brought by the English in 1520.
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false
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Of all the people arriving in the New World from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the Africans were by far the most numerous, probably outnumbering Europeans two to one.
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true
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For nearly a century beginning in 1492, Spain enjoyed a near total domination of the Americas.
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true
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At the mine of __________ in Bolivia, over 50,000 workers dug silver for the Spanish at elevations of 13,000 feet.
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Potosi
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European, __________ , and Asian peoples met in the Americas as part of the Colombian Exchange.
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African
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Population explosions of __________ , along with cattle, helped to devastate grasslands in Central America in the early 1500s.
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pigs