HIST 172 csulb Midterm 1 Exam Questions And Answers
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HIST 172 csulb Midterm 1 Exam Questions And Answers
What food, developed by Native Americans, forms the center of the contemporary American diet?
A) Beans
B) Corn
C) Squash
D)Teosinte - ANS B) Corn
Which group was the first to build cities in the New World?
A)Toltecs
B)Mayas
C)Olmec...
What food, developed by Native Americans, forms the center of the contemporary American diet?
A) Beans
B) Corn
C) Squash
D)Teosinte - ANS B) Corn
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Which group was the first to build cities in the New World?
A)Toltecs
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B)Mayas
C)Olmecs
D)Aztecs - ANS C) Olmecs
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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
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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 - ANS D) Bartolomé de las Casas
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The staple crop of most precolumbian civilizations was:
A) wheat
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B) corn
C) sugar
D) rice - ANS B) Corn
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The cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico is an example of religious:
A) syncretism
B) inquisition
C) fanaticism
D) intolerance - ANS 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 - ANS 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. - ANS D) the European capture of
the Iberian Peninsula from Islamic Moors.
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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."
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A) Columbus on the Taino
B) Bartolomé de las Casas
C) Il Requerimiento (1510)
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D) Pope Paul III in 1537 - ANS 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.
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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. - ANS 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
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B) establish a new, quicker trade route to Asia
C) check the surf off the coast of Perú
D) spread Islam around the globe - ANS B) establish a new, quicker trade route to Asia
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Prior to Columbus, all of the following crops were indigenous to the Americas EXCEPT:
A) tomatoes
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B) tobacco
C) corn
D) wheat - ANS D) wheat
Largest precolumbian settlement in North America, located on the banks of the Mississippi River, was:
A) Cohokia
B) Hohokam
C) Alogonquin
D) Anastazi - ANS A) Cohokia
All of following were brought to the New World from Europe EXCEPT:
, A) sugar
B) pigs
C) corn
D) horses - ANS C) corn
Dona Marina was
A) the founder of Hispaniola
B) the first Portuguese governor of Brazil
C) the Portuguese explorer who first rounded Africa
D) an Aztec woman with a key role in the conquest of Mexico - ANS D) an Aztec woman with a key
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role in the conquest of Mexico
Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
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"Espaniola is a marvel; the mountains and hills, and plains, and fields, and the soil, so beautiful and rich
for planting and sowing, for breeding cattle of all sorts, for building of towns and villages. There could be
no believing, without seeing, such harbors as are here, as well as the many and great rivers, and excellent
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waters, most of which contain gold. In the trees and fruits and plants, there are great diversities from those
of Juana. In this, there are many spiceries, and great mines of gold."
A) Mexica (Aztec) Account of the Spanish
B) Columbus on the New Lands he has "discovered"
C) Pope Paul III in 1537
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D) Il Requerimiento (1510) - ANS B) Columbus on the New Lands he has "discovered"
Why were Native Americans spared the effects of most of the world's communicable diseases until
contact with the Europeans in 1492?
A) Until that time, they had rarely traveled out of their own communities.
B) Until that time, they had eaten a nutrient-rich diet.
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C) Until that time, they had not lived in large groups with close contact.
D) Until that time, they had not domesticated any animals on a large scale. - ANS D) Until that time,
they had not domesticated any animals on a large scale.
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The following were part of Columbus's 1492 contract with the Spanish crown EXCEPT:
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A) Columbus would receive 10% of all revenues garnered in the New World.
B) Columbus would be named Lieutenant Pope and religious leader of all new lands he encountered.
C) Columbus would be ennobled and given the title Admiral of the Ocean Sea.
D) Columbus would be named Viceroy and governor of all new lands encountered. - ANS B) Columbus
would be named Lieutenant Pope and religious leader of all new lands he encountered.
Most modern archeologists would agree that the earliest inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere came
from which of the following areas of the world?
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