Chapter 04 Quiz for Exploitation, Inequality, and Resistance

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. Martin WaldseemÃŒller is known for

publishing Columbus's "Letter to Santangel" correct incorrect

declaring that "the discovery of the Indies" was "the greatest event since the creation of the world," other than the life and death of Christ correct incorrect

coining the phrase "New World" correct incorrect

creating the first map that portrayed North and South America and their relationship to other parts of the known world correct incorrect

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. By the time of his death, Columbus had accepted that his voyage had not taken him to Asia, but to a New World.

true correct incorrect

false correct incorrect

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. According to some later writers, at least one cause of American natives' laziness and drunkenness was

the inferior stars and constellations of America correct incorrect

their frequent digestive problems and stomach disorders correct incorrect

their practice of polygamy correct incorrect

the bounty of the land, which required little work to cultivate correct incorrect

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. According to the principles of humoral medicine, hot-tempered Spaniards were considered

melancholic correct incorrect

phlegmatic correct incorrect

choleric correct incorrect

sanguine correct incorrect

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. Although the Spaniards regarded most native food in the Americas with disgust, they did enjoy

cassavas correct incorrect

potatoes correct incorrect

avocadoes correct incorrect

maize correct incorrect

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. In 1537, Pope Paul III issued a bull declaring that

Iberian conquest of the New World was God's will correct incorrect

the indigenous people of the Americas were heathens and therefore not human correct incorrect

Emperor Charles V was ruler of the Americas correct incorrect

the native population in the New World were human beings capable of understanding Christianity correct incorrect

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. In the second half of the 16th century, the Crown viewed the indigenous people of the Americas as

living in a state of permanent childhood and requiring royal protection correct incorrect

a persistent threat, in need to subjugation by any means necessary correct incorrect

subhuman sources of labor, unworthy of much consideration or care correct incorrect

potential full citizens of Castile, in need of education correct incorrect

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. The population of the Americas before the arrival of Europeans is plausibly estimated to be

less than nine million correct incorrect

between ten and twenty million correct incorrect

between 35 and 55 million correct incorrect

around 100 million correct incorrect

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. Among indigenous people who had never been exposed, smallpox could have a mortality rate of

25 percent correct incorrect

40 percent correct incorrect

50 percent correct incorrect

70 percent correct incorrect

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. The Americas were a pristine landscape prior to the arrival of Europeans and Africans.

true correct incorrect

false correct incorrect

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. The Valley of Mexico was home to a sophisticated hydrological system in the five connected lakes.

true correct incorrect

false correct incorrect

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. Between the 1550s and 1579, the number of sheep in the Valley of Mezquital had grown from 4,000 to roughly

500,000 correct incorrect

1 million correct incorrect

2.5 million correct incorrect

4 million correct incorrect

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. The soil around Huancavelica, Peru remains toxic even today due to

mercury mining correct incorrect

the huge slag heaps that resulted from silver mining correct incorrect

poor animal husbandry practices correct incorrect

lead mining correct incorrect

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. A flood in the Valley of Mexico in 1450 led some people to sell themselves into slavery.

true correct incorrect

false correct incorrect

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. A cleric in Callao blamed the devastating earthquake there in 1687 on

the practice of slavery correct incorrect

sexual relationships between Spaniards and indigenous women correct incorrect

the refusal of the native people to convert to Christianity correct incorrect

homosexual activity correct incorrect

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. The term "Columbian Exchange" refers to the exchange of ideas and language between Old World and New.

true correct incorrect

false correct incorrect