Unit 3 Test Review

The Europeans referred to the land they colonized as...

• Old World
• New Spain
• Native Land
• New World

What was the historical region and cultural area that begins in the Southern part of North America and extends into Central America?

• Mesoamerica
• Central America
• Olmec
• New Spain

What was the motivation for European exploration

• Gold, Glory, God
• To spread diseases
• To trade with the Native Americans
• To exchange goods

A Spanish conqueror

• Encomienda
• Conquistador
• Explorer

Why did the conquistadors bring priests with them to New Spain?

• To perform weddings between Spanish soldiers and native women
• To convert native peoples to Christianity
• To teach the Spanish soldiers about Christianity
• To help the Spaniards hold religious services

Bartolome de las Casas fought for the right to keep the encomienda system going in the Americas.

• True
• False

How did diseases impact America after European contact?

• They didn't
• They helped the natives beat the Spanish
• They wiped out 75-90 percent of Europeans
• They wiped out 75-90 percent of Native Americans

The theory that a nation's economic strength comes from selling more than it brought in from other nations.

• Democracy
• Communism
• Capitalism
• Mercantilism

The Aztec use of the calendar and the Maya writing system both illustrate that pre-Columbian cultures in America...

• traded extensively with Africa
• flourished prior to European contact
• declined because of invasion and disease
• converted others to Christianity

What shape best describes the pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas via the Atlantic Ocean?

• Square
• Pyramid
• Triangle
• Circle