Unit 1 Review (Periods 1-2)

The second paragraph of the excerpt makes which of the following claims about the introduction to Europe of new crops from the Americas?

• They remained relatively unpopular.

• They required little labor to produce.

• They stimulated economies across Europe

• They replaced traditional agricultural products

The excerpt makes the overall argument that the Atlantic economy

• eliminated competition between European nations

• drove long-lasting economic shifts across Europe, Africa, and the Americas

• contributed to the persistence of feudal economic systems

• contributed to the collapse of European empires

Which of the following claims does the excerpt make about changes that occurred as a result of new interactions in the Atlantic region?

• Merchants from Asia dominated trade throughout the sixteenth century.

• Europeans developed new methods of conducting trade and making profits

• African kingdoms were the largest purchasers of goods produced in the Americas.

• Native Americans amassed fortunes as Europeans paid high prices for rare goods.

Which of the following was an outcome of the Columbian Exchange?

• The life expectancy of Native Americans increased.

• Horses and smallpox were introduced in Europe.

• Sugar and rice were introduced in Africa.

• The diets of Europeans improved

• The population of Europe decreased.

Moctezuma’s statement that the Mexica “were not the aborigines of the country” most likely refers to which of the following developments?

• Widespread deadly epidemics before the arrival of the Spanish

• The presence of different and complex societies before European contact

• Use of the encomienda system by the Mexica before the arrival of the Spanish

• The development of African slavery in the Spanish colonies

Which of the following was a primary feature of social relations established in the Spanish colonies in the Western Hemisphere?

• The development of a rigid racial hierarchy

• The growth of friendship and cooperation with native peoples

• The emergence of racially mixed populations mingling European settlers, Native Americans, and Africans

• A close-knit, homogeneous society with a thriving mixed economy of agriculture and commerce based on export crops

The interaction between Cortés and Moctezuma most strongly demonstrates Cortés’

• desire for increased power and status

• support for the European shift from feudalism to capitalism

• promotion of long-distance trade

• consolidation of plantation-based agriculture

Developments such as that depicted in the image most directly led to which of the following?

• The importation of enslaved Africans to the Caribbean

• The increasing use of indentured servants in the Caribbean

• The spread of Spanish missionaries into portions of Florida

• The settling of the eastern North American seaboard by the Spanish

Which of the following most directly contributed to the development depicted in the image?

• The emerging European naval capabilities in the Caribbean

• The search for new sources of wealth in the Caribbean

• The North American reliance on imports from the Caribbean

• The spread of diseases native to the Americas to enslaved African plantation laborers

French exploration of North America most directly contributed to which of the following?

• The ongoing shift from feudalism to capitalism in western Europe

• An economy based on agricultural surpluses in French North America

• Population decline in France as a result of migration to the American colonies

• Western European acceptance of the racial and cultural equality of American Indians