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

American silver made the king of Spain the most powerful monarch in Christendom.

The Norse exerted a significant impact on American history well into the 1500s.

In 1580, the ____________________ Empire was the greatest empire the world had ever known.

Each of the following could be referred to as a conquistador except

The rise of slavery in the New World was closely related to the demands of the capitalist market in Europe.

Europe's most fiercely Catholic society as the sixteenth century began was Spain.

In the fifteenth century, the Chinese government ruled 100 million people.

The Norsemen's lasting contributions to the development of American society included architectural designs and coined money.

The society that was able to build complex agricultural systems at 12,000 feet above sea level -- an unheard of task -- was

Unlike Spain in the Americas, Portugal in Brazil did not attempt to rule the Indian population directly, but attempted to

The Toltecs controlled the Valley of Mexico for three centuries.

By the mid-1600s, there were ____________________ Spanish missions in Florida containing about 26,000 converted Indians.

Spanish conquistadores led armies of around 5,000 men.

In the Americas as in Africa, the rise of farming was closely linked to the domestication of animals.

The European explorer who reached the Grand Canyon was

What explains the European desire for exploration and settlement in the fifteenth century?

The Inca Empire stretched ____________________ miles north to south.

Christians during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries did not believe in executing people for violating religious doctrines.

Describe and analyze the consequences of the exchange of goods, technology, and bacteria between the Old and New Worlds.

Humans definitely were living in parts of Alaska about ____________________ years ago.