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how did the deaths of millions of Indians affected Spain

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greatly, as the lack of natives created a labor shortage that led the Spanish colonists to begin purchasing African slaves.

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What was a major long-term consequences of the bubonic plague (killing about a third of Europe's population in the mid-fourteenth century)

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eased pressure on food resources and created new opportunities for advancement.

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The Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvars Cabral accidentally made landfall on the coast of what country

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Brazil

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Factors that encouraged exploration and territorial expansion included

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technological advances in navigational instruments and monarchs who hoped to enlarge their realms, enrich their dynasties, and magnify their power and prestige

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Which Europeans founded a small fishing village on the tip of Newfoundland around the year 1000

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Norsemen

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The grandson of Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain became King Charles I in 1516. He and his successors used the wealth of New Spain to...

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consolidate the largest empire in Europe and fight religious wars with Protestants and Muslims.

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what was the most important treasure the Spanish plundered from their New World holdings

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forced Indian labor

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Who was the conquistador who spent three years looking for rich, majestic civilizations in southeastern North America

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Hernando de Soto

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Where did Columbus think he was when he first arrived in the New World

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the East Indies

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Portugal's early interest in exploration and expansion stemmed from its desire to

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expel Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula and gain access to African trading posts

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The approximately 225,000 Spaniards who settled in the colonies between 1492 and 1592 were made up primarily of

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poor young men of common lineage who were artisans, laborers, soldiers, and sailors.

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Which of the following countries first navigated a sea route from Europe to Asia?

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Portugal

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The Tainos shared which of the following traits with Europeans?

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They farmed and held religious beliefs.

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Children born in the New World to parents who had emigrated from Spain were referred to as...

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creoles.

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From Spain's viewpoint, the most important economic activity in New Spain after 1540 was

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silver mining.

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The 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal did what?

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it drew an imaginary line down the Atlantic Ocean, with territory west of the line belonging to Spain and territory east of the line belonging to Portuga

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In the early 1500s, Martin Waldseemüller was among the very first to understand what?

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the discoveries of Columbus, Balboa, and Cabral proved the existence of a separate landmass between Europe and Asia.

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The transatlantic trade of goods, people, and ideas between the New World and Europe is referred to as the what?

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The Columbian Exchange

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In the 1500s, the British and the French did what

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sent explorers into the New World but were unable to sustain thriving colonies.

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The first permanent European settlement within what would become the United States was what?

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St. Augustine, Florida

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Portugal's early interest in exploration and expansion stemmed from its desire to do what?

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expel Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula and gain access to African trading posts

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The Spanish introduced 'encomienda' as a way to do what?

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reward conquistadors who had conquered territory in the New World

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Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe left no doubt that America was separated from Asia by an enormous ocean. His voyage

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convinced Europeans that a westward passage to the East was not a feasible route.

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If you were a statesman in the early to mid-1500s and followed the news of Columbus's discovery, you might argue that his most important contribution was what?

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proving that it was possible to sail from Europe to the western Atlantic and return to Europe.

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In 1517, Martin Luther publicized his criticism of the Catholic Church. The theological differences between Luther and the Catholic Church centered on what?

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how salvation could be gained.

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John Cabot was sponsored by the English monarch to search for a Northwest Passage to the East Indies. Which area did Cabot manage to reach and claim for England?

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Newfoundland

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The first European nation to attempt to break the Italian monopoly on trade with the Far East in the fifteenth century was what?

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Portugal

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A child born to a Spanish man and an Indian woman in the New World would have been considered part of which social class?

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mezitos

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The transatlantic trade of goods, people, and ideas between the New World and Europe is referred to as the

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the Columbian Exchange

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The discovery of a sea route to Asia impacted Europe in important ways, greatly influencing exploration and

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destroying the monopoly that Mediterranean merchants had on Asian marketplaces.

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Within eighty years of the arrival of Europeans in the New World..

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90 percent of the Indian population had died, primarily from the harshness of colonial policies and from diseases inadvertently transmitted by Europeans.

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The system of coerced labor in New Spain grew directly out of Spaniards' assumption that

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Spaniards were superior to Indians

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The first permanent European settlement within what would become the United States was

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St. Augustine, Florida.

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Hernán Cortés's conquest of Mexico was most significant because it

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served as a model for future colonization and made Spain the most powerful monarchy in Europe.

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he Tainos shared which of the following traits with Europeans?

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They farmed and held religious beliefs.

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Cortés was eventually able to defeat the Mexicans in 1521 by enlisting the help of...

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tens of thousands of Indian allies who favored the destruction of Mexico.

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The Spanish introduced encomienda as a way to

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reward conquistadors who had conquered territory in the New World.

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The Cathay Company sent Martin Frobisher to the New World in order to

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open trade with China.

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he 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal

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drew an imaginary line down the Atlantic Ocean, with territory west of the line belonging to Spain and territory east of the line belonging to Portugal.

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In the 1500s, the British and the French

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sent explorers into the New World but were unable to sustain thriving colonies.

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The distribution of conquered towns, the right to rule the Indians and the land in and around their towns, and the right to exact tribute and labor from the Indians were all part of the system of

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encomienda

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When Francisco Vásquez de Coronado ventured into the Southwest and Great Plains of North America, he was searching for

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The Seven Cities of Cibola

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The major long-term consequences of the bubonic plague killing about a third of Europe's population in the mid-fourteenth century were that it

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eased pressure on food resources and created new opportunities for advancement.

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Like many other European colonies in the New World, New Spain developed a pattern of social organization in which

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Europeans became a dominant minority in a society stratified by race and social origin.

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The Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvars Cabral accidentally made landfall on the coast of

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Brazil

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In the early 1500s, Martin Waldseemüller was among the very first to understand that

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the discoveries of Columbus, Balboa, and Cabral proved the existence of a separate landmass between Europe and Asia

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In 1549, the Spanish government issued the repartimiento,

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which reduced the autonomy and power of the encomenderos.

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he Spanish introduced encomienda as a way to

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reward conquistadors who had conquered territory in the New World.

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The most important treasure the Spanish plundered from their New World holdings was

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forced Indian labor

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When Columbus first arrived in the New World, he believed he was in

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The East Indies

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When Catholic priests such as Friar Bartolomé de Las Casas complained to the Spanish government about the brutal treatment of Indians, royal officials

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made an effort to replace the encomenderos with royal bureaucrats as the rulers of New Spain.

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