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Chapter 16 Quiz C with References
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European motivations for exploration included _____.
Accumulating wealth.
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Gaining power over their rivals.
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Spreading Christianity.
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All of the above.
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European long distance ships borrowed technology from _____.
Arabian and Viking ships.
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Chinese and Indian ships.
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Arabian and Chinese ships.
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Spanish and Portuguese ships.
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The Portuguese were driven to expand primarily by the pull of opportunities abroad.
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False.
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Columbus saw the first Native Americans he encountered primarily as _____.
Potential trading partners.
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Potential Christians.
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Potential slaves.
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Only deserving of death.
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Bartolome de las Casas fought against _____.
Converting Native Americans to Christianity.
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Shipping Native Americans to Europe as slaves.
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The indigenous slave trade.
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Teaching Native Americans to read.
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The first European to figure out that the Americas were not part of Asia was _____.
Christopher Columbus.
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Amerigo Vespucci.
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Ferdinand Magellan.
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Juan de Solis.
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The term for the massive interoceanic transfer of animals, plants, and diseases that followed the discovery of the New World is _____.
The slave trade.
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The Triangle Trade.
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The Columbian Exchange.
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The Atlantic economy.
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The aspect of the Spanish conquest that decimated the Aztec people more than any other was _____.
European diseases like smallpox.
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Fear of European horses.
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Fear of the Christian god.
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Defeats suffered by the Aztec army.
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When Pizarro marched into the Andes, Atawallpa had been Sapa Inca for _____.
Decades.
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Most of his life.
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Only a few weeks.
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A day or two.
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The many Spanish advantages, like superior weapons and horses, along with the impact of European germs, allowed them to defeat the Aztecs and Incas.
True.
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False.
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Mining was hard work, and relied primarily on _____.
Native American draft labor.
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Technical innovations.
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African slaves.
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Imported European labor.
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Silver from the Americas funded the expansion of the Catholic Church worldwide.
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False.
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Conversion to Catholicism among Native Americans was limited primarily by _____.
The cruelty of the Inquisition to Native nonbelievers.
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The hypocrisy of the Catholic hierarchy.
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Their preference for Protestant beliefs.
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Long held Native beliefs.
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The stimulus for the shift from small-scale trading outpost to settled plantation agriculture in Brazil was _____.
The arrival of French traders and religious refugees.
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The beginning of the African slave trade.
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The end of silver mining there.
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Competition with Spain.
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Brazil's first export was ____.
Silver.
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Sugar.
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Brazilwood.
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Dye.
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Sugar was native to the Americas.
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False.
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Sugar making has been described as an early modern precursor to industrial production because of its _____.
Complexity.
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High capital investment.
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Careful timing.
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All of the above.
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The Mapuche stopped proclaiming their independence in _____.
The 1880s.
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The early 1600s.
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The late 1700s.
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They haven't yet.
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The warlike Mapuche culture played a large part in their resistance to conquest.
True.
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False.
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The Mapuche adopted Old World products, for example _____.
Guns.
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Horses.
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Foods.
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All of the above.
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