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1483 Exam 1
Professor Elder Exam 1
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History
Undergraduate 1
05/03/2009

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Africans primarily came to early European settlements in America
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as slaves
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From where did the earliest humans visit North America probably come?
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Siberia
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Archaeologists call the earlist Americans
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Paleo-Indians
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The Aztac capital was
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Tenochtitlan
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Most African immigrants to the Americas came from
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the continent's western regions
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Which religion took root in West Africa and Conquered Ghana?
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Islam
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Columbus' voyages were funded by
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Spain
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The conquistadors were primarily interested in
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finding gold
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Who wrote "In Defense of the Indians"?
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Las Casas
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Which of the following was part of "the columbian exchange"?
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The spread of European diseases to America
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The Treaty of Tordesillas affected which countries?
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Portugal and Spain
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Where did Raleigh attempt to found a colony in 1585?
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Roanoke Island
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What period marks the European Renaissance?
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1400-1600
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The economic base of France's New World empire was
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the fur trade
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Which French religious order sent missionaries to convert the Indians in Canada?
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The Jesuits
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What is the meaning of the term coureurs de bois?
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Woods runners
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What was the first settlement established by the Virginia Company?
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Jamestown
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What was the House of Burgesses?
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The first legislative body in English America
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Indentured Servants received what for their labor?
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Free passage to America
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Spanish justification for imperial expansion included all of the following except
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to find allies against Islam
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He exposed the abuses of the Church and did more than any other single person to advance the revival of learning
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Desiderius Erasmus
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The Portuguese slave trae began in
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1444
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The Beaver Wars were fought between the Hurons and the
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Iroquois
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The Pueblo Revolt took place in
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New Mexico
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The first people forced into slavery in America by the Europeans were
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Indians
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Which groups first brought African slaves to America?
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Spanish and Portuguese
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Who was the first explorer to view the Mississippi River?
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Hernando de Soto
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Who opened a sea route from Europe to India
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da Gama
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When was the "Lost Colony" founded on Roanoke Island?
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1587
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Most West Africans were
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Farmers
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Conquistadors came from
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Spain
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Cartier explored the St. Lawrence River in order to
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find a water route to Asia
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Which animal was taken from America to Europe?
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The turkey
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Kivas were special circular rooms used for
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religious ceremonies
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Officials of the Virginia Company
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encouraged tobacco production
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Who was Pocahontas's husband?
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John Rolfe
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Who was Pocahontas's father?
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Powhatan
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Which of these was a great city of West Africa?
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Timbuktu
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Which group developed Mesoamerica's most advanced writing system?
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The Mayans
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Which disease devastated the Aztec population?
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Smallpox
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According to the class lecture the "Black Death" killed what fraction of European's population?
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One-Quarter
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The oldest continually inhabited town in North america was
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Oraibi
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This culture is an example of a "mound-building" society.
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Hopewell
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Who claimed the area from Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico for France?
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Robert, Sieur de La Salle
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These intricate relief carvings inscribed on stone slabs and pillars depicted lives of rulers were called
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stelae
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In what year did the English defeat the Spanish Armada?
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1588
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During what period did humans first enter North America?
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Paleolithic
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What was the major cause of the decline in most Mesoamerican Cultures?
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Overpopulation, Disease, Warfare, Enviornmental Deterioration

 

All of the Above

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How many voyages did Columbus make to the New World?
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Four
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In what year were the first African slaves brough to Jamestown?
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1619
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