283665828 | True | The geography of the North American continent was fundamentally shaped be the glaciers of the Great Ice Age. | |
283665829 | False | North America was first settled by people who came by boat across the water of the Pacific Strait from Japan to Alaska. | |
283665830 | False | The early Indian civilizations of Mexico and Peru were built of the economic foundations of cattle and wheat growing. | |
283665831 | True | Most North American Indians lived in small semi-nomadic agricultural and hunting communities. | |
283665832 | True | Many Indian cultures like the Iroquois traced the decent through the female line. | |
283665833 | False | No Europeans had ever set foot on the American continents prior to Columbus's arrival in 1492. | |
283665834 | True | A primary motive for the European voyages of discovery was the desire to find a less expensive route to Asian goods and markets. | |
283665835 | False | The beginnings of African slavery developed in response to the Spanish conquest of the Americas. | |
283665836 | False | Columbus immediately recognized in 1492 that he had come across new continents previously unknown to Europeans. | |
283665837 | False | The greatest effect of the European intrusion on the Indians of the Americas was to increase their population through intermarriage withe the whites. | |
283665838 | True | Spanish gold and silver from the Americas fueled inflation and economic growth in Europe. | |
283665839 | False | The Spanish Conquistadors had little to do with the native peoples of Mexico and refused to intermarry with them. | |
283665840 | False | The province of New Mexico was first settled by French colonizers from the North. | |
283665841 | True | Spain expanded its empire into Florida and New Mexico partly to block French and English intrusions. | |
283665842 | True | The Spanish empire in the New World was larger, richer, and longer-lasting than that of the English. | |
283665843 | a. | The geologically oldest mountains in North America are | |
283665844 | b. | The Indian peoples of the New World | |
283665845 | a. | The Iroquois Confederacy remained a strong political and military influence until | |
283665846 | a. | Among the important forces that first stimulated European interest in trade and discovery was | |
283665847 | d. | Among the most important American Indian products to spread to the Old World were | |
283665848 | c. | The primary staples of Indian agriculture were | |
283665849 | b. | The number of Indian in North America at the time Columbus arrived was approximately | |
283665850 | c. | Before Columbus arrived the only Europeans to have temporarily visited North America were | |
283665851 | a. | The Portuguese were the first to enter the slave trade and establish large -scale plantations using slave labor in | |
283665852 | b. | Much of the impetus for Spanish exploration and pursuit of glory came from Spain's recent | |
283665853 | c. | A crucial political development that paved the way for the European colonization of America was | |
283665854 | b. | The primary reason for the drastic decline in the Indian population after the encounter with the Europeans was | |
283665855 | b. | Cortes and his men were able to conquer the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan partly because | |
283665856 | a. | The primary early colonial competitor with Spain in the New World was | |
283665857 | d. | The belief that the Spanish only killed and tortured and stole in the Americas while doing nothing good is called |
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