2746016810 | The Indian empire that dominated modern Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest was the? | Aztec | 0 | |
2746016811 | At the time of the Spanish conquest, the economies of most of the Native Americans in South and Central America and Mexico were based on? | Agriculture | 1 | |
2746016812 | the eastern third of what is now the United States was inhabited by the? | Woodland Indians | 2 | |
2746016813 | Indian religions were? | Tied closely to the natural world | 3 | |
2746016814 | Indian societies in North America tended to? | Divide tasks according ot gender | 4 | |
2746016815 | Europe during the Middle Ages were? | Too divided and decentralized to inspire great ventures | 5 | |
2746016816 | Paralleling the rise of commerce in Europe, and in part responsible for it, was? | the rise of united and powerful nation-states | 6 | |
2746016817 | The first nation to fund exploriation beyond Europe was? | Portugal | 7 | |
2746016818 | Partly because of Columbus's voyages, Spain? | Replaced Portugal as the foremost seafaring nation | 8 | |
2746016819 | Through a combo of daring, brutality, and greed the conquistadors? | made possible the creation of a Spanish empire in America | 9 | |
2746016820 | The indians' conversion to Catholicism? | most natives continued to practice their own religious rituals | 10 | |
2746016821 | The Pueblo Revolt of 1680? | allowed the Pueblos to regain temporary political control of their communities | 11 | |
2746016822 | The first result of the meeting of native and European cultures was the? | Importation of European diseases | 12 | |
2746016823 | This was more important to Europe than gold and silver found in the new world. | Importation of new crops that would feed larger numbers of people | 13 | |
2746016824 | In matrilineal Indian and African societies | woman play a major, often dominant, role | 14 | |
2746016825 | The Afriacan slave trade began in? | the 8th century AD | 15 | |
2746016826 | In the 16th century the market for slaves grew because? | The rising European demand for sugar cane | 16 | |
2746016827 | What were the reasons for English colonization? | Escape religious strife, Escape the economic transformation, find new markets for English products, to defeat the Spanish Armada | 17 | |
2746016828 | The members of the Church of England who proclaimed that the church ahd not given up Rome's offensive beliefs are? | Puritans | 18 | |
2746016829 | As a result of their experiences in Ireland, the English believed that? | they must retain a rigid seperation from the native population. | 19 | |
2746016830 | The country that produced the most successful fur traders and trappers was | The French | 20 | |
2746016831 | the first permanent English settlement was? | Jamestown, Virginia | 21 | |
2746016832 | The man to whom Queen Elizabeth granted the land on which the "lost colony" was planted was? | Walter Raliegh | 22 | |
2746016833 | In 1606, James I gave the exclusive right to colonize along the southeast coast to a group of London merchants. T/F | True | 23 | |
2746016834 | The large Indian trading center in the Mississippi River Valley near present-day St. Louis was Cahokia. T/F | True | 24 | |
2746016835 | The Iroquois Confederation consisted of tribes in the southernmost region of the eastern seaboard. T/F | False | 25 | |
2746016836 | Cortés might not have been able to defeat the Aztecs had it not been for an epidemic of smallpox that decimated the native population. T/F | True | 26 | |
2746016837 | The oldest permanent European settlement in the present-day United States is St. Augustine. T/F | True | 27 | |
2746016838 | New Mexico became one of the most important provinces in Spanish America. T/F | False | 28 | |
2746016839 | The riches of America ultimately hurt Spain because they caused that country to ignore attempts to promote agricultural and domestic growth in the colonies. T/F | True | 29 | |
2746016840 | The most important Native American crop brought back by the Europeans was squash. T/F | False | 30 | |
2746016841 | Europeans felt justified in their treatment of the Indians because they considered the Indians uncivilized savages. T/F | True | 31 | |
2746016842 | Spaniards seldom intermarried with the Native Americans. T/F | False | 32 | |
2746016843 | Today it is generally believed that there were fewer Native Americans when the Europeans arrived than there were a century later. T/F | False | 33 | |
2746016844 | Mercantilism was a theory that discouraged nations from having colonies. T/F | False | 34 | |
2746016845 | Joint-stock companies were the means by which investors could share the risks and the profits of colonizing ventures. T/F | True | 35 | |
2746016846 | The doctrine that God "elected" some people to be saved and condemned others to damnation was preached by Martin Luther. T/F | False | 36 | |
2746016847 | The English Reformation began with a political dispute between king and pope not with a religious dispute over matters of theology. T/F | True | 37 | |
2746016848 | England's first experience with colonization was in Virginia. T/F | False | 38 | |
2746016849 | The first Europeans to settle in the Hudson River Valley were the Dutch. T/F | False | 39 |
AMERICAN HISTORY BRINKLEY CHAPTER 1 Flashcards
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