Hernán Cortés was responsible for the conquest of the - ANS Aztecs
Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
"we ask and require you that you consider what we have said to you, and that you acknowledge the Church as the Ruler and Superior of the whole world, and the h...
History 172 Midterm 1 Exam Questions
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Hernán Cortés was responsible for the conquest of the - ANS Aztecs
Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
"we ask and require you that you consider what we have said to you, and that you acknowledge
the Church as the Ruler and Superior of the whole world, and the high priest called Pope, and in
his name the King and Queen Doña Juana our lords [ . . .] If you do so, you will do well, and we
in their name shall receive you in all love and charity . . . if you do not do this, I certify to you
that, with the help of God, we shall powerfully enter into your country, and shall make war
against you in all ways and manners that we can, and shall subject you to the yoke and
obedience of the Church and of their Highnesses; we shall take you and your wives and your
children, and shall make slaves of them." - ANS Il Requerimiento (1510)
The staple crop of most precolumbian civilizations was - ANS corn
Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
"The people of this island all go naked, men and women, just as their mother bring them forth.
They have no iron or steel, nor any weapons; nor are they fit thereunto; not because they be not
a well-formed people and of fair stature, but that they are most wonderously timorous." - ANS
Columbus on the Taino
What food, developed by Native Americans, forms the center of the contemporary American
diet? - ANS corn
All of following were brought to the New World from Europe EXCEPT: - ANS corn
The following were part of Columbus's 1492 contract with the Spanish crown EXCEPT: - ANS
Columbus would be named Lieutenant Pope and religious leader of all new lands he
encountered
Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
"All iron was their war array. In iron they clothed themselves. With iron they covered their heads.
And those which bore them upon their backs, their deer [that is, horses], were as tall as roof
terraces." - ANS Mexica (Aztec) Account of the Spanish
, Why were Native Americans spared the effects of most of the world's communicable diseases
until contact with the Europeans in 1492? - ANS Until that time, they had not domesticated
any animals on a large scale.
Spanish monarch who sponsored Columbus's first voyage to the New World: - ANS Queen
Isabella
Prior to Columbus, all of the following crops were indigenous to the Americas EXCEPT: - ANS
wheat
Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
"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 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." - ANS Columbus on the New Lands he has "discovered"
Indigenous Americans suffered demographic losses of genocidal proportions in the 16th and
17th centuries. The number of native peoples dropped from 30-50 million in 1492 to 12 million
by 1650. The primary cause for this horrific decline was: - ANS Smallpox
Which of the following was the most significant barrier to communication and technology
transfer between groups in the Americas? - ANS the north-south geography of the
Americas
Changes in European society that caused the expansion of European peoples into the New
World after 1450 included - ANS technological advances in seafaring and weaponry.
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." - ANS Pope Paul III in 1537
The term mestizo refers to - ANS an individual of indigenous and European heritage
About 15,000 years ago, which land bridge was used by migrants to cross between Siberia and
Alaska? - ANS Bering Strait
The cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico is an example of religious - ANS syncretism
Largest precolumbian settlement in North America, located on the banks of the Mississippi
River, was - ANS Cohokia
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