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40 Cards in this Set
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The Indian empire that dominated modern Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest.
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Aztec
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At the time of the Spanish Conquest, the Native Americans' economy was based on what?
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Agriculture
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The eastern third of what is now the United States was inhabited by whom?
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Woodland Indians
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_____ ______ in North America tended to divide tasks according to gender (male or female).
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Indian Societies
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Paralleling the rise of commerce in Europe and was also in part responsible for the European rise in commerce.
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United and powerful Nation States
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Partly due to Columbus' voyages, ____ replaced _____ as the foremost seafaring nation.
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Spain replaced Portugal
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Through daring, brutality, and greed conquistadors made possible the creation of a ____ _____ in America.
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Spanish Empire
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What happened as most Indians began to convert to Catholicism?
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Most Indians continued to practice their native religion
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What was the MOST profound thing introduced to America as the Native Americans and Europeans first met?
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European Disease
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What was more important to Europe than the gold and silver from the new country?
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New crops that could feed larger numbers of people
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In matrilineal Indian and African Societies, who play a major or dominant role?
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Women
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When did the African slave trade begin?
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As early as the 18th century
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What cause the slave trade to increase dramatically in the 16th. century?
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Rising European demands for sugar
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Bringing Christianity to the Indian WAS or WAS NOT a reason for English colonization?
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WAS NOT
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According the the Mercantile Theory, what could make a nation strong?
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Exporting more than they Imported
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These were members of the Church of England that believed that the church had not given up a lot of the Roman Churches practices?
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Puritans
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As a result of what happened in Ireland, the English believed what?
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They should maintain a strict separation from the native populations
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This country produced the most successful fur trappers and traders.
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France
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Where was the first Permanent English settlement?
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Jamestown, Virginia
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This is the man whom Queen Elizabeth granted the land that the "Lost Colony was planted on?
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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(True or False)
The Aztec capital on present day Mexico City was called Cuzco. |
False
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(True or False)
The large Indian trading center in the Mississippi River Valley near present day St. Louis was Cahokia. |
True
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(True or False)
The Iroquios Confederation consisted of tribes in the southernmost region of the eastern seaboard. |
False
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(True or False)
All Native Indian tribes traced their families through their father's line. |
False
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(True or False)
By the end of the first voyage Columbus knew he had not reached China. |
False
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(True or False)
Cortes might not have been able to defeat the Aztecs had it not been for the small pox outbreak in the Indian population. |
True
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(True or False)
The oldest permanent European settlement in the United States is St. Augustine. |
True
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(True or False)
The Catholic Church was as important as Brutality and force in the Spanish colonization of America. |
True
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(True or False)
Encomiendas were large estates or land grants. |
True
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(True or False)
New Mexico brought Spain almost as much gold and silver as Mexico did. |
False
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(True or False)
The most important crop taken from America by Spain back to Europe was Squash. |
False
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(True or False)
Europeans justified their treatment of the Indians because they considered them to be uncivilized savages. |
True
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(True or False)
Spaniards seldom inter-married with the Native Indians. |
False
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(True or False)
Mercantilism was a theory that discouraged colonization. |
False
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(True or False)
Charter Companies were business partnerships operating with a monopoly from a monarch for a specific region. |
True
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(True or False)
The doctrine that God had chosen some people to be saved and others condemned was preached by Martin Luther. |
False
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(True or False)
The English Reformation began with a dispute between the Pope and the King. |
True
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(True or False)
England's first experience with colonization was in Virginia. |
False
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(True or False)
The first settlers in the Hudson River Valley were the Dutch. |
True
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(True or False)
In 1606 King James exclusive right to settle along the southeast coast or North America to a group of London merchants. |
True
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