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HIST 172 csulb midterm 1 Questions WithComplete Solutions
What food, developed by Native Americans, forms the center of
the contemporary American diet?
A) Beans
B) Corn
C) Squash
D)Teosinte Correct Answers B) Corn
Which group was the first to build cities in the New World?
A)Toltecs
B)Mayas
C)Olmecs
D)Aztecs Correct Answers C) Olmecs
Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
"The cacique [Hatuey], who had never heard any of this before,
and was told he would go to Inferno where, if he did not adapt
the Christian Faith, he would suffer eternal torment, asked the
Franciscan friar if Christians all went to Heaven. When told that
they did he said he would prefer to go to Hell. Such is the fame
and honor that God and our Faith have earned through the
Christians who have gone out to the Indies."
A) Columbus on the Taino
B) Il Requerimiento (1510)
C) Mexica (Aztec) Account of the Spanish
D) Bartolomé de las Casas Correct Answers D) Bartolomé de
las Casas
,The staple crop of most precolumbian civilizations was:
A) wheat
B) corn
C) sugar
D) rice Correct Answers B) Corn
The cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico is an example of
religious:
A) syncretism
B) inquisition
C) fanaticism
D) intolerance Correct Answers A) syncretism
Which of the following was the most significant barrier to
communication and technology transfer between groups in the
Americas?
A) lack of interest among inhabitants
B) the north-south geography of the Americas
C) groups that did not know of each other's existence
D) the perpetual state of war between groups Correct Answers
B) the north-south geography of the Americas
The reconquista was the Spanish term for:
A) the Catholic practice of buying and selling absolution from
sin.
B) the Spanish persecution of religious critics and heretics.
C) the invasion of the Aztec Empire by conquistadores.
D) the European capture of the Iberian Peninsula from Islamic
Moors. Correct Answers D) the European capture of the
Iberian Peninsula from Islamic Moors.
, Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
"[After much debate] We consider that the Indians are truly men
and that they are not only capable of understanding the Catholic
faith, but according to our information, they desire exceedingly
to receive it."
A) Columbus on the Taino
B) Bartolomé de las Casas
C) Il Requerimiento (1510)
D) Pope Paul III in 1537 Correct Answers D) Pope Paul III in
1537
Columbus succeeded in reaching the Americas because:
A) the Spanish Reconquista had failed, and Spain needed a
different enterprise.
B) he was one of the few Europeans who believed the world was
round.
C) he grossly underestimated the distance from Europe to the
Indies.
D) he convinced the Spanish monarchs to underwrite a fleet of
the largest vessels of that day. Correct Answers C) he grossly
underestimated the distance from Europe to the Indies.
The primary purpose of Columbus' voyage of 1492 was to:
A) prove that the world was round
B) establish a new, quicker trade route to Asia
C) check the surf off the coast of Perú
D) spread Islam around the globe Correct Answers B) establish
a new, quicker trade route to Asia
Prior to Columbus, all of the following crops were indigenous to
the Americas EXCEPT:
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