Quizizz - Practice Round

The Vinland map allegedly proved that ___________ explorers had reached the Americas prior to Christopher Columbus.

• French
• Phoenician
• Scandinavian
• Scottish

The cultural exchanges that took place between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the Americas during the 16th and 17th centuries most influenced which of the following?

• patterns of family organization among Native Americans
• global distribution of plant and animal life
• global distribution of energy sources
• patterns of political organization among Europeans

At the time of the Spanish conquest, the economies of most of the Native Americans in South and Central America and Mexico were based on:

• hunting and gathering.
• pastoralism
• fishing and gathering.
• agriculture

The moral justification among Europeans for colonies in the Americas was found in the idea that colonization brought...

• Christianity to save the souls of "savages."

• culture to America’s "savages."

• technology and science to the "dark" areas of the world.

• the Americas into the expanding world trade network.

Civilizations in (the) _____________ and the Andes encompassed highly populated metropolitan areas, imperial armies, and supply and tribute lines that extended thousands of miles.

• Mesoamerica
• Eastern Woodlands
• Caribbean
• Great Plains

Christopher Columbus's journal is classified as a ____________ source.

• tertiary
• secondary
• principal
• primary

With its small white population and emphasis on trade, rather than agricultural settlement, the viability of ____________ depended on friendly relations with local Indians. 

• New England
• New Spain
• New Canaan
• New France

___________________ was a social system between the 5th and 16th centuries in Europe in which lands were divided into hundreds of territories, with each ruled by a family of nobles who enjoyed significant wealth and power by demanding tribute from peasants in exchange for protection. 

• Theocracy
• Feudalism
• Regency
• Tyranny

The _____________ were a series of military expeditions promoted by the Catholic Church to regain Palestine from Muslim control. 

• Columbian Exchanges
• Battles of the Bastards
• Reconquistas
• Crusades

Who protested the horrors of the Spanish conquest of the Americas in his book titled The Destruction of the Indies?

• Hernan Cortes
• Bartolomé de las Casas
• Martin Luther
• Sieur de La Salle