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American History meeting of the cultures and Transplantion and Borderlands

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The early South American civilizations of Incas, Mayans, and Aztecs all shared the following characteristics   economies based primarily on agriculture substantial cities  
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The Pre-Columbian North American peoples in the Southwest built ______________ for farming.   large irrigation systems  
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In the Great Plains region, most pre-columbian societies hunted _______ for survival.   buffalo  
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Prior to European contact, the eastern third of what is today the Untied States had the most _________________ of any region of the continent?   abundant food resources  
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Many Pre- Columbian tribes east of the Mississippi River were loosely linked by _______________   common linguistic roots  
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The preeminent European maritime power in the fifteenth century was   Portugal  
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thought the world was much smaller than it really was.   Christopher Columbus  
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As a result in his third voyage in 1498, Christopher Columbus concluded he had encountered   a continent separate from Asia  
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helped popularize the idea that the Americas were new continents.   Amerigo Vespucci  
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In 1518, Hernando Cortes's conquest of the Aztecs was made possible due largely to   the exposure of the Aztecs to smallpox  
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An encomienda was the   uniform worn by conquistadors  
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In 1680, the Pueblo Indians rose in revolt against Spanish settlers after the Spanish   made efforts at suppressing Indian religious rituals.  
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In what way did the sixteenth-century Europeans benefit from the trade between the Americans and Europe?   A large number of new crops became available in Europe.  
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In Spanish colonial societies, mestizos came to make up the   largest segment of the population.  
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African and American- Indian societies tended to be matrilineal which meant   people traced their heredity through their mothers  
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In what Chronological order did European countries control the African slave trade?   Portuguese, the Dutch, the English  
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What Condition in England in the sixteenth century provided an incentive for colonization   the availability of the farmland was declining while the population was growing.  
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The English Reformation resulted from   a political dispute between King Henry VIII and the Catholic Church.  
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At the beginning of the seventeenth century, English Puritan discontent was increased by   the death of Queen Elizabeth  
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England's first experience with colonization came in   Ireland  
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The English concluded from their colonial experiences in Ireland that   English colonists should maintain a rigid separation from the indigenous population  
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An important consequence of the defeat of the Spanish Armada was that   England found the seas more open to their control.  
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The colony of Virginia was named in honor of   Elizabeth I  
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Seventeenth-century English colonial settlements   were tightly controlled by the English government  
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The first important economic boom in Jamestown resulted from   the production of tobacco  
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the cultivation of tobacco around Jamestown resulted in all   the rapid wearing out of the soil the search for new sources of labor rising prosperity for the colony the expansion of European settlement into the interior  
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In the first seventeen years of Virginia existence   nearly eighty percent of the white settlers died  
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In which technology were Indians more advanced than the Virgina colonists   agriculture  
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In the seventeenth century, English colonists recognized that corn   produced yields than any of the European grains  
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Compared to King James I, King Charles I treatment of the Puritans   was more hostile  
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The Puritan merchants who founded the Massachusetts Bay Company   carried out the largest single migration in the seventeenth century  
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The Massachusetts Bay Puritans created a   colonial theocracy  
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One reason Roger Williams was deported from the Massachusetts colony was he said   the land occupied by the colonists belong to the Indians  
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In 1637, hostilities broke out between the English settlers in the Connecticut Valley and what local Native American Tribe?   the pequots  
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In King Phillips war, Indians made effective use of the relatively new weapon   the flintlock rifle  
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The English Restoration began with the reign of   Charles II  
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Originally, the Georgia colony excluded   both free blacks and slaves  
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Which of the following was not a restoration colony? Maryland Carolina New York Pennsylvania New Jersey   Maryland  
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The English Colonial settlements in the Caribbean concluded that it was   cheaper to buy new African slaves than to protect the ones they already had.  
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The proprietors who founded the Carolina colony   guaranteed religious freedoms to all Christians  
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In colonial North America the "middle grounds" refers to a region in which   no one European or Indian group held clear dominance  
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The English Parliament enacted the Navigation Acts primarily to benefit   New England merchants  
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The Dominion of New England   called for a single royal government  
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Leisler's Rebellion took place in   New York  
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The Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689   helped put in place the Dominion of New England  
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