Exam 1: When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe

Franciscan missionaries systematically tortured their Mayan converts when they caught them worshipping their old gods.

During the long history of the Atlantic slave trade, nearly every African shipped overseas had first been enslaved by other Africans.

The nation that led the way for European expansion into the Americas was

Which of the following did Portugal settle first?

As the encomienda system faded, a new system of debt peonage kept Indians tied to the Spanish.

Describe European society in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

The world's largest and grandest city in the 1200s was in ____________________.

In the fourteenth century an outbreak of the ____________________ wiped out one third of Europe's population.

All except which of the following were negative results of the exploration and discovery era?

The conqueror of the Aztecs was ____________________.

Under slavery as it existed in Africa

Explain the victory of Hernán Cortés over the large and powerful Aztec Empire.

Most European Christians viewed the Indians as

More than any other technological advantage, ____________________ made European military conquest possible.

Pedro Alvares Cabral discovered ____________________ in South America accidentally.

____________________ was the Inca capital.

The Portuguese ocean-going ship that combined lateen sails with square rigging was called a caravel.

The most devastating factor brought to the Americas by the Europeans was

The Black Death reduced Europe's population by

The Spanish kingdom of ____________________ sent its first settlers to the Canary Islands just after 1400.