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2746016810The Indian empire that dominated modern Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest was the?Aztec0
2746016811At the time of the Spanish conquest, the economies of most of the Native Americans in South and Central America and Mexico were based on?Agriculture1
2746016812the eastern third of what is now the United States was inhabited by the?Woodland Indians2
2746016813Indian religions were?Tied closely to the natural world3
2746016814Indian societies in North America tended to?Divide tasks according ot gender4
2746016815Europe during the Middle Ages were?Too divided and decentralized to inspire great ventures5
2746016816Paralleling the rise of commerce in Europe, and in part responsible for it, was?the rise of united and powerful nation-states6
2746016817The first nation to fund exploriation beyond Europe was?Portugal7
2746016818Partly because of Columbus's voyages, Spain?Replaced Portugal as the foremost seafaring nation8
2746016819Through a combo of daring, brutality, and greed the conquistadors?made possible the creation of a Spanish empire in America9
2746016820The indians' conversion to Catholicism?most natives continued to practice their own religious rituals10
2746016821The Pueblo Revolt of 1680?allowed the Pueblos to regain temporary political control of their communities11
2746016822The first result of the meeting of native and European cultures was the?Importation of European diseases12
2746016823This was more important to Europe than gold and silver found in the new world.Importation of new crops that would feed larger numbers of people13
2746016824In matrilineal Indian and African societieswoman play a major, often dominant, role14
2746016825The Afriacan slave trade began in?the 8th century AD15
2746016826In the 16th century the market for slaves grew because?The rising European demand for sugar cane16
2746016827What were the reasons for English colonization?Escape religious strife, Escape the economic transformation, find new markets for English products, to defeat the Spanish Armada17
2746016828The members of the Church of England who proclaimed that the church ahd not given up Rome's offensive beliefs are?Puritans18
2746016829As a result of their experiences in Ireland, the English believed that?they must retain a rigid seperation from the native population.19
2746016830The country that produced the most successful fur traders and trappers wasThe French20
2746016831the first permanent English settlement was?Jamestown, Virginia21
2746016832The man to whom Queen Elizabeth granted the land on which the "lost colony" was planted was?Walter Raliegh22
2746016833In 1606, James I gave the exclusive right to colonize along the southeast coast to a group of London merchants. T/FTrue23
2746016834The large Indian trading center in the Mississippi River Valley near present-day St. Louis was Cahokia. T/FTrue24
2746016835The Iroquois Confederation consisted of tribes in the southernmost region of the eastern seaboard. T/FFalse25
2746016836Cortés might not have been able to defeat the Aztecs had it not been for an epidemic of smallpox that decimated the native population. T/FTrue26
2746016837The oldest permanent European settlement in the present-day United States is St. Augustine. T/FTrue27
2746016838New Mexico became one of the most important provinces in Spanish America. T/FFalse28
2746016839The riches of America ultimately hurt Spain because they caused that country to ignore attempts to promote agricultural and domestic growth in the colonies. T/FTrue29
2746016840The most important Native American crop brought back by the Europeans was squash. T/FFalse30
2746016841Europeans felt justified in their treatment of the Indians because they considered the Indians uncivilized savages. T/FTrue31
2746016842Spaniards seldom intermarried with the Native Americans. T/FFalse32
2746016843Today it is generally believed that there were fewer Native Americans when the Europeans arrived than there were a century later. T/FFalse33
2746016844Mercantilism was a theory that discouraged nations from having colonies. T/FFalse34
2746016845Joint-stock companies were the means by which investors could share the risks and the profits of colonizing ventures. T/FTrue35
2746016846The doctrine that God "elected" some people to be saved and condemned others to damnation was preached by Martin Luther. T/FFalse36
2746016847The English Reformation began with a political dispute between king and pope not with a religious dispute over matters of theology. T/FTrue37
2746016848England's first experience with colonization was in Virginia. T/FFalse38
2746016849The first Europeans to settle in the Hudson River Valley were the Dutch. T/FFalse39

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