Exam 1: The Collision of Cultures

The first truly complex society in the Americas was that of the

The first permanent European settlement in what is now the United States was ________.

Discuss the economic and religious factors critical to English colonization.

In what way were Martin Luther and John Calvin important to English Puritans?

Mercantilists promoted colonization as a means to acquire the inexhaustible wealth of the New World.

The most radical Puritans were called ________.

The licenses granted to Spaniards to exact labor and tribute from natives in specific areas were called ________.

The civilizations and political systems of pre-Columbian Native Americans north of Mexico were less elaborate than those of the peoples to the south.

As of the sixteenth century, Europeans had generally built up a greater immunity to smallpox than had the Native Americans.

Spanish mines in America yielded ten times as much gold and silver as the rest of the world's mines together.

What European explorer gave the Pacific Ocean its name?

The agricultural practices of pre-Columbian tribes in the Northeast were characterized by

The significant Indian trading center near present-day St. Louis was called ________.

The preaching of John Calvin led his followers to lead both anxious and productive lives.

Which of the following statements is most accurate regarding African immigrants to the Americas between 1500 and 1800?

In England during the early sixteenth century, mercantilism thrived mostly on the basis of trade in which commodity?

The Spanish Empire at one point claimed the whole of the western world, except for a piece of what is today ________.

Owing to their commitment to Catholicism, male Spanish immigrants had very little sexual contact with Indian women.

Amerigo Vespucci

Puritans were the first English colonizers.