Question 1

Describe what is meant by the Spanish Black Legend. What is your assessment of the Spanish impact on North American cultures: positive or negative? Why?

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Question 2

Describe the impact of Europeans on Native American (Indian) cultures and the impact of native cultures on Europeans. Then explain why it was, or was not, a good thing that European culture prevailed.

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Question 3

All of the following were true of the Spanish EXCEPT

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The Spanish did not isolate and shun the Native Americans like the English; instead, they often integrated with them, intermarried, and converted them to Christianity.

Question 4

Summarize the human migration, agricultural development, and geographic evolution of North America up through 1000 C.E. What impact did the interaction of these three developmental factors have on the subsequent history of North America?

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Question 5

The treatment of the Native Americans by the Spanish conquistadores can be described as

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The Spanish conquistadores often treated Native Americans brutally and exploitatively, seeking wealth and resources, and imposing harsh labor systems like the encomienda.

Question 6

Spain began to fortify and settle its North American border lands in order to

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Spain fortified its North American borderlands primarily to protect its territories from the encroachments and expansion efforts of other European powers, particularly England and France.

Question 7

Describe both the positive and negative effects of the Columbian Exchange on the New and Old World.

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Question 8

In which of the following is the explorer mismatched with the area he explored?

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Ponce de León is known for exploring Florida, not the Mississippi River Valley.

Question 9

How did Spanish interaction with Native Americans differ from that of the English?

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The Spanish often integrated aspects of Native American culture into their own, including through intermarriage and the blending of religious practices, while the English were more likely to maintain a distinct separation from Native American cultures.

Question 10

Which of the following is the false concept, which held that the Spanish conquerors merely tortured and butchered the Indians, stole their gold, infected them with smallpox, and left little but misery behind?

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The "Black Legend" is the false concept that exaggerated the cruelty of the Spanish conquerors, portraying them as having done nothing but harm to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

Question 11

The development of Spanish influence in California in the mid-1760s and 1770s was facilitated by

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Father Junipero Serra established a chain of missions in California, which played a significant role in spreading Spanish influence in the region during the mid-1760s and 1770s.

Question 12

What was the nature of slavery in Africa before the arrival of the Spanish?

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Question 13

Are the Spanish conquistadores to be considered villains or heroes or both for their actions in the Americas? Assess and evaluate the short-term and long-term influence of the Spanish conquistadores on political, economic, religious and social developments in southwestern North America, the Caribbean Islands, and South America. Analyze the key developments in the relationships of the Spanish conquistadores with the Indian peoples of these three regions of the Americas.

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Question 14

Describe the impact of disease on Native American and European populations.

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Question 15

All of the following are true about Pueblo Revolt in 1680, EXCEPT

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The Pueblo Revolt was not successfully halted by the Spanish; it was a successful uprising by the Pueblo Indians against Spanish colonizers.

Question 16

Describe the Aztec political, economic, social, and spiritual (religious) elements civilization and the effect that European conquest had on the evolution and existence of the Aztec civilization and its people.

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Question 17

It is sometimes said that the Europeans who came to the Americas settled a "virgin land" that was unused and unspoiled. Write an essay demonstrating that this is, or is not, an accurate description of what happened.

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Question 18

Summarize the motives, expectations, problems, and rewards associated with the age of European expansion. Compare and contrast these motives, expectations, problems, and rewards of European expansion as they applied to Africa, North American and the Caribbean Islands, and South America.

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Question 19

Which of these statements does NOT describe mestizos?

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Mestizos were not pagan slaves; they were individuals of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry, forming a bridge between cultures.

Question 20

The Aztec chief Moctezuma allowed Cortés to enter the capital of Tenochtitlán because

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Moctezuma believed that Cortés might be the god Quetzalcoatl, who was prophesied to return, which led him to allow Cortés into Tenochtitlán.

Quiz 1: New World Beginnings