Exam 1 Ch. 1-2
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| Thousands of years after people first appeared in North America | climatic changes and extensive hunting had killed off the large mammal population
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| From A.D. 300 to 900, which group in Middle America (Mesoamerica) developed cities, including gigantic pyramids? | Mayas
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| Ancient Greeks | knew that the world was round
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| Navigation in the age of discovery was hampered by the inability to accirately determine | longitude
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| By 1492, united kingdoms in western Europe included | Portugal and Spain
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| Christopher Columbus first landed in the New World in | the Bahamas
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| Food crops exported from the Americas | allowed a worldwide population explosion
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| After the arrival of Europeans, the greatest number of Indians died as a result of | disease
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| In most cases, Spanish explorers and soldiers who came to the New World were motivated by | desire for power and patrotism; not for the desire to server their fellow men
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| After defeating the native forces at Vera Cruz, Cortes | invited the warriors to join his advance on the Aztecs
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| The encomendia system allowed | privileged Spanish landowners to control Indian villages
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| The primary objective of the thousands of priests in New Spain was to | convert the Indians
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| The government of Spain in the New World differed fro that of the later British colonies in that | every detail of the colonial administration was closely regulated by the Spanish king
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| In 1565, the first European town was established in the current-day United States at | St. Augustine
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| The original Spanish settlement of New Mexico | was led by Juan de Onate
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| This is true of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 | It was led by an Indian named Pope and the Indians attacked numerous churches and priests. NOT that it was led by the Spaniards to immediately colonize Texas & California
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| Horses became so valuable in North America | because they intensified intertribal competition and warfare
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| The French captain, Jacques Cartier, most importantly, explored the | St. Lawrence Bay
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| A major reason for the defeat of the Spanish Armada was | storms in the North Sea
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| The explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert | was lost at sea
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| James I | was the first of the Stuart monarchs
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| Charles I | was executed as a result of the English Civil War
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| The Glorious Revolution of 1688 | increased the power of Parliament
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| The stockholders who invested in the Virginia Company were motivated primarily by | financial profit
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| One of the most important factors aiding the survival of the early Jamestown settlers was | the assistance they received from the Indians
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| As Jamestown's leader, Captain John Smith | made the colonists work in order to eat
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| One outstanding characteristic of Jamestown in its intial years was | the high mortality rate among its settlers
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| Pocahontas died | in England
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| The headright system adopted for the Virginia Colony consisted of | giving fifty acres of land to anyone who would transport himself to the colony and fifty more for any servants he might bring
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| In 1624, a British court dissolved the struggling Virginia Company, and Virginia became | a royal colony
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| Bacon's Rebellion mainly involved a dispute between Nathaniel Bacon and Governor Berkeley over | how to respond to Indian attacks on the frontier
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| Bacon's Rebellion | brought indentured servants and dsmall farmers together against the colony's rich planters and politcal leaders
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| Roger Williams founded Rhode Island after he | had been banished from Massachusetts for his religious opinions
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| Roger Williams' mistrust of the purity of others eventually led him to the belief that | there should be complete separation of church and state
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| Anne Hutchinson was kicked out of Mass. for | challenging the authority of local ministers
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| King Phillip's War | devastated the Native American culture in New England
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| A large number of South Carolian's original settlers were British planters from | Barbados
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| English merchants in the Carolinas by the early 1700s establishing a thriving trade with Southern Indians for | deerskins
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| The major reason Charles II decided to wrest New Netherland from the Dutch was the threat of that colony's | commercial success
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| The Iroquois | controlled much of eastern North America during the second half of the 17th century
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