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The Americas
Americas
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Europeans exploited the land of the Americas in the 1400s and 1500s because they wanted to… | Gain wealth quickly |
| . Columbus and other Europeans of his time believed that the Earth was | Smaller than it really is |
| What forced Europeans to look for other routes east? | Land routes were closed off by Ottoman Turks |
| The Treaty of Tordesillas established a territorial dividing line between | Spain and Portugal |
| What prompted early migration to North America and created a way for migrants to get there? | The most recent Ice Age |
| Which option correctly lists North America’s first Paleo-Indian cultures in the order in which they developed? | Clovis, Folsom, Plano |
| Triangular Trade routes involved shipments of raw materials, finished goods, and enslaved | Africans |
| How was disease helpful to the Europeans in the late 1400s and early 1500s? | It weakened American Indian military power |
| What made land routes to Asia dangerous to travel in 1492? | Bands of thieves |
| Unlike Portuguese explorers, Columbus believed that he could get to Asia more quickly by sailing | West |
| Diseases from which two continents killed millions of American Indians in the late 1400s and early 1500s? | Europe and Africa |
| Which early American culture lived to the east of the Olmecs? | The Mayans |
| The conquistadors were driven primarily by | The desire for gold |
| In the first Spanish colonies, how did nearly all American Indians die? | Disease |
| How did the encomienda system function in the Spanish colonies? | It was a slavery system that did not allow the enslaved to be sold off the land |
| When a nation conquers and settles another country for its own benefit, this practice is called | Colonization |
| What was the most significant result of the Spanish colonization of Central and South America? | Spain became rich by stealing the wealth of the American colonies |
| Once of the long-reaching effects of the Spanish conquest was the spread of what religion across the Americas? | Catholicism |
| Arranged from greatest privileges to fewest privileges, which is the correct order of the Spanish class system? | Peninsulares, criollos, mestizos, Indians, and enslaved persons |
| The image gives the impression that | The conquistadors were men doing God’s work |
| Which culture was the first Mesoamerican civilization? | The Olmecs |
| Identify the achievement that the Mayans developed? | A calendar based on a solar year of 365 days |
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