APUSH Period 1

As a result of the Columbian Exchange, the New World gained...

• a significant new source of staple food crops
• an influx of gold and silver capital for the construction of new urban centers
• advanced medical techniques that extended the life-span of Native Americans
• new animals as sources of food and to serve as beasts of burden

European diseases that arrived in the New World were particularly deadly because...

• little medical aid was available so far from European urban centers
• the European conquerors deliberately accelerated the spread of the most deadly strains
• the Native Americans had no natural resistance to these diseases
• the vast devastation of warfare with the Europeans left few to care for the sick

One significant impact of the Columbian Exchange on the Old World was...

• the growth of the food supply and subsequent population increase
• the introduction of slavery as a significant source of labor for European landowners
• the widespread devastation of new diseases among the poor
• a drainin gof capital from the royal families and a shift of wealth to the hands of the merchant class

In the view of the encomienda system, Native Americans were seen primarily as...

• a source of labor
• a group to be protected
• a focus of evangelization
• outcasts to be excluded from Spanish settlement

What aspect of Spanish colonization did missionary Bartolome de Las Casas famously protest?

• the refusal of explorers to tithe on the wealth they discovered
• the lack of missionary zeal among the conquistadors
• the treatment of Native Americans as subhuman and expendable
• the focus of the Spanish Crown on Latin America while neglecting the Reconquista at home

Which of the following is a key value of Native American culture?

• Private land ownership
• Communal land ownership
• Horses are sacred
• Close reliance on buffalo

Who conquered the Aztecs?

• Pizarro
• Columbus
• Dias
• Cortes

They were conquered by Fransisco Pizarro 

• Inca
• Maya
• Aztec
• All of these

What was the biggest killer of Natives in the New World?

• Spanish Conquistadors
• Native land disputes
• Disease
• Guns

Spanish soldiers were known as--

• conquistadores
• missions
• viceroys
• cartographers