After spending 70 years working to convert the Pueblo people, Franciscan friars |
managed to graft a veneer of Catholicism over native culture. |
Europeans brought which of the following animals to the New World? |
cattle, goats, and pigs. |
An African known as Estevan and enslaved by the Spanish |
became an important trailblazer for Spanish explorers. |
The consequences of sugar production in the New World included |
stimulating the transport of millions of African slaves, colonizing Brazil, and revolutionizing European tastes. |
Between 1519 and the early 1800s, which of the following ethnic groups crossed the Atlantic to the Americas in greater numbers than any other? |
Africans |
Which of the following crops did Europeans use African slave labor to produce in the Americas? |
rice, tobacco, and sugar. |
The first colony organized around slave labor was Portugal's |
Madeira. |
English colonizing ventures in the New World differed from previous Spanish and Portuguese efforts in that English attempts were |
privately organized and financed. |
How did the Pueblo native people benefit from Spanish arrival? |
They had access to grain during times of drought, they had access to mission livestock, and they obtained Spanish military protection against enemy Apaches. |
"Demographic disaster also struck the populous Inca peoples of the Peruvian Andes...." Demographic refers to |
population |
Most African slaves sent to the Americas were |
war captives |
Within a single generation of Columbus's death, Spanish conquistadores |
explored, claimed, and conquered most of South America except Brazil and parts of North America. |
"Some Taino women married Spanish men and produced the first mestizo society in the Americas." Mestizo refers to a |
person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry. |
All of the following are true regarding the potato's role in the "Columbian Exchange" EXCEPT the |
potato decreased crop yields in calories per acre. |
While Spain began to exert its power on the other side of the Atlantic, the Portuguese |
concentrated on spreading their power to Africa and East Asia. |
Spanish and Portuguese explorations of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries |
shifted commercial power from Mediterranean ports to those of the Atlantic. |
England began to take greater interest in overseas exploration as a result of all of the following EXCEPT |
improved ships that sailed faster and carried more cargo than before. |
The massive flow of silver bullion from the Americas to Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries |
triggered a century of inflationary pressures. |
Which of the following is true about Queen Elizabeth I of England? |
She initially disfavored overseas expansion, she ruled from 1558 to 1603, and she favored Protestantism. |
Why did the African slave trade begin? |
It was an attempt to fill a labor shortage in the Mediterranean world. |