Semester Exam

Which of the following best explains the cultural pattern shown in the diagram?

• Colonial immigrants adopted the beliefs of indigenous people living in South America.

• Spanish colonization of South America spread new religious traditions.

• African slaves brought new religious traditions to South America.

• Incan leaders encouraged people in South America to convert to new religions.

Which of the following letters indicates the correct location of Mexico on the above map?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Which of the following is one way cultures of Central America were influenced by Spanish colonization?

• Christianity and the Spanish language were introduced into the region.

• Mayan cultural practices were adopted by the Spanish settlers in the region.

• Women gained greater equality when Spanish laws were applied to the region.

• Farming became the primary economic activity in the region.

What is conflict?

• Two characters getting along.
• A struggle between two opposing forces.
• The climax in a story.
• Part of the resolution.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which is not an example of internal conflict?

• Overcoming fear
• Insecurity
• Hurricanes
• Depression

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What invention increased the demand for land to grow cotton in the South?

• Archimedes Screw 
• Barbed Wire
• Cotton Gin 
• Steam Engine 

People from all across the world want to move to the United States because

• The United States has better economic opportunities (pull factor)

• religious prosecution

• communist take overs

• natural disasters

Which of the following is an impact that the Colombian Exchange?

• disease, food and animals were exchanged back and forth from new world to old.

• the only thing traded was disease.

• The use of the horse caused native peoples to leave.

Because of faster and better technology we are now able to use the internet to spread our culture to people across the world (cultural diffusion)

• True

• False

Chernobyl is a town located in present day Ukraine, formerly USSR. On Saturday, April 26th, 1986 at exactly 1:23 am, one of the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. What caused the reactor to explode?

• sabotage by an enemy of the USSR

• an experiment gone wrong because of advancing technology

• to this day, the reason is unknown