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History Final
The Atlantic World
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the main economic activity in New France? | building a fur trade |
| Who conquered the Aztec empire? | Hernando Cortez |
| Why did European see Africans as better source of labor than Native Americans? | Africans had built up immunities to European disease, they already had prior experience in agriculture, and they had no where to run to |
| What was the purpose of most of the joint-stock companies of the 1500's and 1600's? | Funding colonies in the America |
| Where in the Americas did Christopher Columbus land first? | an island in the Caribbean Sea |
| What did the encomiunda system provide for New Spain? | a cheap labor source |
| What prompted a wave of new business and trade practices in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries? | new wealth from the Americas and the growth in overseas trade |
| Which European country was the first to import enslaved Africans to the Americas? | Spain |
| As part of the Columbian Exchange, which of the following was carried west across the Atlantic? | livestock |
| Which of the following areas was originally founded as a settlement by the Dutch? | New York |
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Alisha B.
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