Chapter 1 Flashcards
The first center of the Spanish empire in America
Was the island of Hispaniola
What motivated the Portuguese to begin exploration to find a water route to India, China, and the East Indies?
To eliminate the Muslim “middlemen” in the luxury goods trade
Far more important to most Indian societies than freedom as personal independence were all of the following EXCEPT
Secure rights to owning land
In Europe on the eve of colonization, one conception of freedom, called “Christian liberty,”
Mingled ideas of freedom with servitude to Jesus Christ- Concepts that were seen as mutually reinforcing
The city situated along the Mississippi River with between 10,000 and 30,000 residents in the year 12000 is today known as?
Cahokia
Which statement about the indians about the indians of North West is FALSE?
Indians lacked genuine religion
Under English law in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, women…
Surrendered their legal identities when they married
Which of the following is true of Spain’s explorations of the New World?
Florida was the first region in the present-day U.S. that Spain colonized
Which one of the following is true of religion in seventeenth-century Europe?
Religious uniformity was though to be essential to public order
What role did religion play in Columbus’s explorations?
Catholics in Spain and Italy supported his expeditions they wanted to end Muslim control of the eastern trade.
Acoma was an Indian city in present day ______ that the spanish destroyed
New Mexico
Alarmed by the destructiveness of the conquistadores, the Spanish crown replaced them with a more stable system of government headed by?
Lawyers and bureaucrats
Which one of the following statements about African slavery within Africa is FALSE?
Only men were taken for the slave trade
What geographic error did Columbus make?
He grossly underestimated the size of the earth
Europeans- particularly the English, French, and Ducth-generally claimed North American Indian land as their own based on?
Their view that indians did not used the land properly
The ritual sacrifices practiced by the Aztecs
Disgusted Europeans despite their own practices of publicly executing executing criminals and burning witches at the stake
How did Spain justify enslaving Native Americans?
The Spanish believed that enslavement could liberate Native Americans from their backwardness and savagery and introduce them to Christian civilization
According to Bartolome de Las Casas
Spain had caused the deaths of millions of innocent people in the New World
Which European city was known in the early seventeenth century as a haven for persecuted Protestants from all over Europe and even for Jews fleeing Spain?
Amsterdam
Exploring the North American interior in the 1500’s, _____ was the first European to encounter the immense herds of buffalo that roamed the Great Plains
Francisco Vasquez do Coronado
Native American religious ceremonies
Were related to the Native American belief that sacred spirits could be found in living and inanimate things
Europeans tened to think which one of the following about Native Americans and their cultures?
Native Americans failed to make use of the land, so it was acceptable for Europeans to take it and use it
Which statement about gender relations is FALSE for most Native Americans societies?
Tribal leaders were almost always women
Which one of the following was NOT true of women in Native American societies?
Women made all decisions about trade relations with other tribes
Before the arrival of Columbus, Native North Americans
Had elaborate trade networks
Which statement about the Pueblo Revolt is FALSE?
It was inspired by the Pope, but he died before the actual revolt took place
In 1517, the German priest _______ began the Protestant Reformation by posting his Ninety-Five Theses, which accused the Catholic Church of worldliness and corruption
Martin Luther
The Spanish set up outposts from Florida to South Carolina in part because…
Spanish missionaries hoped to convert local Native Americans to Christianity
How did Native Americans conceive of property?
Families might use a specific plot of land for a season
Which one of the following is true of Spanish emigrants to the New World?
Many of the early arrivals came to direct Native American labor
In 1492, the Native American population
Lived mostly in Central and South America
Which European country dominated international commerce in the early seventeenth century
The Netherlands
Which of the following was NOT a technique that Spanish conquistadores used to conquer Native American empires?
Negotiating treaties
