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1) Discuss conditions that encouraged early modern Europeans to undertake voyages of
exploration and discovery.
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Topic : England’s Entry into America
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2) How did Portuguese exploration prepare the way for the Spanish discovery of North
America?
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Learning Objective : Describe European expansion in the fifteenth century
Topic : Eurasia and Africa in the Fifteenth Century
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3) Compare and contrast Aztec society in the fifteenth century with that of early modern
Europe.
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Learning Objective : Identify the reasons for Spain’s success in its exploration of the Americas.
Topic : Spain in the Americas
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4) How did Spain’s colonial empire influence the development of western Europe during the
sixteenth century?
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5) Characterize the conditions and changes in sixteenth-century Europe that contributed to
the Protestant Reformation.
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Learning Objective : Explain how religious reform divided Europe in the sixteenth century.
Topic : Religious Reform Divides Europe
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6) What primary factors accounted for the rivalry between England and Spain in the late
sixteenth century?
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7) What factor was most essential in encouraging early modern Europeans to undertake
voyages of discovery and exploration?
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8) Could the direction of discovery and colonization in the fifteenth and sixteenth century
have been reversed—that is, could the Aztecs have discovered and colonized western Europe?
Why or why not?
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9) To what extent were the English adventurers and the Spanish conquistadors “brothers
under the skin”? In what ways were the roles they played similar, from the point of view of the
royal governments of England and Spain?
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10) Consider the motives of early English promoters of colonization, like Gilbert and
Raleigh. To what extent were such men motivated by idealistic goals? To what extent by
economic interests?
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Topic : England’s Entry into America
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11) Compare and contrast the tenets of Luther and Calvin. Be specific in including the
Catholic traditions and the need for reforms.
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12) Describe the social divisions among the races. What role did religion play in the divisions
within society? What was the role of class? How did the Europeans move up within society?
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13) Describe the slave culture in America. How and why were Africans imported into the
colonies?
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14) While most accounts begin with Spanish penetration of the Caribbean and Central
America, this chapter begins with the second pathway across the North Atlantic, followed by
seafarers from England, France, and Portugal to fish off the island of ________.
14) ______
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15) The nation of ________ led the way in exploring beyond Europe’s known waters using
the caravel ship.
15) ______
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16) Hernán Cortés was the conquistador who conquered the great empire of the ________.
16) ______
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17) By 1520, the Spanish plantations in the West Indies were being worked by ________
imported from Africa.
17) ______
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18) The transfer of flora and fauna of the Americas on the one hand and those of Eurasia and
Africa on the other is known to historians as the ________ exchange.
18) ______
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19) Cabot was never heard from again after setting sail in 1498 on a search for a(n) ________
passage to Asia.
19) ______
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20) A precedent for subsequent English colonization in the New World occurred closer to
home with a program to colonize ________ in order to control that threatening place.
20) ______
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21) Changes in European society that caused the expansion of European peoples into the
New World after 1450 included
21) ______
A) technological advances in seafaring and weaponry.
B) a deflationary spiral that dried up sources of capital.
C) political decentralization with a democratic philosophy.
D) the rise of women as a significant political force.
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22) According to the research of various international organizations, how many people
endure various forms of slavery today?
22) ______
A) none
B) tens of thousands
C) several hundred thousand
D) tens of millions
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23) What caused widespread alarm among European rulers in 1453?
23) ______
A) Columbus’s arrival in the New World
B) Martin Luther’s protest against Catholic doctrine
C) the Treaty of Tordesillas
D) Mehmet II’s conquest of Constantinople
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24) Europeans first encountered sugar plantations
24) ______
A) following crusaders’ conquest of Jerusalem in 1099.
B) on the Azores off the coast of West Africa.
C) during a Portuguese exploration of the Bight of Benin.
D) through Marco Polo’s travels to China.
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25) Why did European sugar plantations expand westward from the eastern Mediterranean
islands after Saladin’s reconquest of Jerusalem?
25) ______
A) Turkish bands kept marauding the eastern Mediterranean islands.
B) The climate of the eastern Mediterranean was not suitable for sugar.
C) The Black Death had decimated the labor force of the Eastern Mediterranean.
D) The sugar crop exhausted soil quickly, forcing plantations to move on a regular basis.
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26) The Mundus Novus was named after ________ by a German mapmaker.
26) ______
A) Vespucci
B) Columbus
C) da Gama
D) de León
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27) Columbus succeeded in reaching the Americas because
27) ______
A) he was one of the few Europeans who believed the world was round.
B) he grossly underestimated the distance from Europe to the Indies.
C) he convinced the Spanish monarchs to underwrite a fleet of the largest vessels of that
day.
D) the Spanish Reconquista had failed, and Spain needed a different enterprise.
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28) By approximately 1625 (a little more than a century after Columbus’s discovery), all of
the following were true EXCEPT that
28) ______
A) the Spanish empire stretched from Mexico south to near the tip of South America.
B) the English had begun efforts to establish a permanent colony in North America.
C) the Portuguese were sailing directly to China around the south tip of Africa.
D) an international fishing community congregated annually off the Newfoundland coast.
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29) Columbus mistakenly labeled the Taino people “Indians,” believing that
29) ______
A) the natives of the Americas originally came from India rather than Siberia.
B) he had reached the Indies.
C) he had reached the American shore.
D) he had reached India.
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30) To the continents of the Western Hemisphere, Europeans gave the name America, from a
30) ______
A) Latinized form of one of Columbus’s given names.
B) Spanish honorary title given Columbus.
C) Florentine geographer’s Latinized first name.
D) version of the name of a Mesoamerican tribe.
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31) All of the following explain why Spain conquered the Americas so rapidly, EXCEPT
31) ______
A) the weakening of native peoples by exposure to European infections.
B) their kindness to the native population, which led the natives to willingly cede their
power.
C) political disunity within American native empires.
D) Spanish technological superiority in the form of ships and guns.
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32) Which of the following was the biggest factor in the early and rapid success of the
conquistadors against Native Americans?
32) ______
A) the military technology of the Spanish
B) the infectious diseases brought by the Spanish
C) the rigid political centralization of the Aztecs, which meant that to capture the
emperor was to conquer the empire
D) the bloody religious system of the Aztecs, which allowed the Spanish to win converts
among Aztec peasants with their stress on Christian virtue
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33) By the mid-1500s, the biggest source of Spanish wealth from the New World came from
33) ______
A) rum.
B) spices.
C) weaponry.
D) silver.
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34) What momentous event that occurred throughout Europe distracted England from
pursuing empire in the 1500s?
34) ______
A) the Reformation
B) the Revolution
C) the Renaissance
D) the Reconnaissance
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35) Martin Luther preached
35) ______
A) the infallibility of the Bible and the church.
B) the need to rebel against unjust or immoral authority.
C) for the rights of the individual and democratic rule.
D) salvation by faith alone.
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36) John Calvin established a “holy commonwealth” that became a center for European
Protestantism and later a model for English Puritans. Where was this Calvinist stronghold?
36) ______
A) Amsterdam
B) Wittenberg
C) Bristol
D) Geneva
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37) King Henry VIII of England broke with the pope in establishing the Church of England
and appointing himself its head. The Church of England
37) ______
A) quickly began promoting a reformist doctrine.
B) remained essentially Catholic.
C) allied itself with the reformist Catholics Luther and Calvin.
D) was soon dissolved, after which England returned to its Catholic religious teachings
and rituals.
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38) John Calvin preached the
38) ______
A) free conscience and choice of the individual.
B) calling of the Christian believer to pray with and follow the pope in Rome.
C) calling of the Christian church to actively reshape the world.
D) divine choosing of God’s saints for salvation by the clergy.
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39) The English model of conquest and slaughter did not begin in the Americas. The
precedent was set in
39) ______
A) the Cape region at the southern tip of Africa.
B) islands off the West African coast.
C) Ireland.
D) Iceland and Greenland.
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40) What was the precedent set by the English colonization of Ireland?
40) ______
A) that a nearby domain was fair game for conquest
B) that Catholics had a perfect right in the name of the church to conquer Protestants
C) that it was justifiable to brutally repress a race that they believed to be inferior
D) that if the Spanish could attempt an attack on the English, the English could respond
with an attack on the Irish
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41) Elizabeth I urged the colonization of Ireland because
41) ______
A) as a monarch, she feared that foreign powers would use that contentious island as a
base for invading England.
B) as a Protestant, she feared that radical Puritans might use that Catholic island as a base
for religious rebellion.
C) as a Catholic, she wanted to reconvert the Protestant Irish.
D) as the daughter of Anne Boleyn, she needed respect and an enlarged realm.
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42) Richard Hakluyt argued that North America would be an ideal place to
42) ______
A) extend the influence of Catholicism.
B) use as a base to search for a northwest passage.
C) reform the criminal and enrich the poor.
D) create light industry.
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43) The first English attempt to colonize the New World failed before it even reached the
shores of America. The attempt was led by
43) ______
A) Gilbert.
B) Fitzgerald.
C) Raleigh.
D) Hakluyt.
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44) In 1600, England’s settlements in the Americas included
44) ______
A) Roanoke.
B) Jamestown.
C) Newfoundland.
D) None of these answers are correct.
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