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Question

1. The term "reconquista" refers to the reconquest of Spain from the:

Moors

Protestants

Aztecs

British

Jews

2. During the 15th century settlers to Madeira brought enslaved African laborers to cultivate which of the following crops, establishing what one historian would later call "the plantation complex":

Tobacco

Coffee

Indigo

Pepper

Sugar

3. The Spanish established the first permanent European settlement in North America in what would become New York City.

True

False

4. The French established a series of trading forts, called factories, on the western coast of Africa in the 14thcentury.

True

False

5. Due to their relatively small numbers, residents of New France relied on friendly relations with local Indians and sought to establish military, commercial, and diplomatic alliances.

True

False

6. Which of the following is a definition of the term metis:

an indentured servant

an Indian woman who worked with the French as a guide or translator

a French trader who married an Indian woman

the child of an Indian woman and French man

7. Identify the statement that most accurately reflects what is described in the passage written by Father Jean de Brébeuf, which we discussed in lecture:

The author describes efforts to convert Native Americans

The author recounts a relationship best characterized by the term the Black Legend

The author claims that Native Americans will trade fur for beads and porcelain

The author argues that the French have appropriated significant amounts of land

8. The Dutch West India adopted a seal for their colony of New Netherland. The image suggests which of the following was critical to the colony's economy?

tobacco

silver

fur

fish

timber

9. Native Americans died in catastrophic numbers due in large part to the fact that they had never encountered the diseases carried by Europeans and thus had no immunities to them.

True

False

10. Which of the following was England's "laboratory for empire," where the English established patterns and policies they would later undertake in America?

India

Scotland

France

China

Ireland

11. The English justified their violent appropriation of Irish lands by claiming that the Irish failed to properly cultivate the land.

True

False

12. Richard Hakluyt justified English colonization of the New World by claiming that English colonization would save Native Americans from Spanish tyranny.

True

False