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Multiple-Choice Questions
1) Beringia can best be described as a ________.
a. land bridge
b. large ship
c. transcontinental sea route
d. short land voyage
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.1 What explains cultural differences among Native American groups before the
European conquest?
Topic: 1.1.1 Indigenous Peoples Before European Contact
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
2) __________ played a major part in facilitating the migration of humans into North America.
a. Cultural preferences
b. Epidemics
c. Warfare
d. Environmental conditions
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 1.1 What explains cultural differences among Native American groups before the
European conquest?
Topic: 1.1 Native American Histories before the Conquest
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
3) Knowledge of maize, squash, and beans spread __________.
a. west from the Atlantic coast
b. south from the Great Plains
c. south from the Pacific Northwest
d. north from central Mexico
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 1.1 What explains cultural differences among Native American groups before the
European conquest?
Topic: 1.1.2 Food, Climate, and Culture: The Challenge
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
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,4) Which of the following was a consequence of the Agricultural Revolution?
a. Native American peoples stopped hunting mammals.
b. Native American peoples gained greater control over their food supply.
c. Epidemic diseases swept across the Americas.
d. Warfare became far less common in the Americas.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.1 What explains cultural differences among Native American groups before the
European conquest?
Topic: 1.1.2 Food, Climate, and Culture: The Challenge
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
5) The Agricultural Revolution allowed the Native Americans of Mexico and Central America to
__________.
a. build more complex societies
b. invent the wheel
c. build peaceful societies
d. conquer much of North America
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.1 What explains cultural differences among Native American groups before the
European conquest?
Topic: 1.1.3 Mexico’s Aztec Empire
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
6) Tenochtitlán was the main ceremonial center of the __________.
a. Mayas
b. Toltecs
c. Incas
d. Aztecs
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 1.1 What explains cultural differences among Native American groups before the
European conquest?
Topic: 1.1.3 Mexico’s Aztec Empire
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
7) __________ groups occupied much of the Atlantic coast from North Carolina to Maine.
a. Hopi
b. Algonquian
c. Comanche
d. Seminole
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.1 What explains cultural differences among Native American groups before the
European conquest?
Topic: 1.1.4 Eastern Woodland Cultures
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
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,8) Most Native Americans defined their place in society through __________.
a. kinship
b. religion
c. wealth
d. job descriptions
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.1 What explains cultural differences among Native American groups before the
European conquest?
Topic: 1.1.4 Eastern Woodland Cultures
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
9) What did fifteenth-century Portuguese explorers and Christopher Columbus have in common?
a. Both were primarily interested in spreading Catholicism.
b. Both were hoping to make scientific contributions.
c. Both hoped to find a sea route to Asia.
d. Both were determined to find undiscovered lands.
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2 Conditions of Conquest
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
10) Who introduced Islam to West Africa?
a. Political emissaries
b. Missionaries
c. Traders
d. Soldiers
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.1 West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
11) When European traders first arrived in West Africa, the major states would have included Mali,
Benin, and __________.
a. Nubia
b. Mombasa
c. Great Zimbabwe
d. Kongo
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.1 West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
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,12) What did the Portuguese hope to acquire in Africa?
a. Silk and spices
b. Horses and cattle
c. Gold and slaves
d. Cotton and tobacco
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.1 West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
13) Why did European slave traders accept African trade regulations?
a. They had no choice.
b. The slave trade was incredibly profitable.
c. Their rulers had signed trade agreements with African princes.
d. They were fair to both sides.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.1 West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
14) On what basis did historian Davis Eltis claim that “In terms of immigration alone . . . America was an
extension of Africa rather than Europe until the late nineteenth century”?
a. Africa had a much greater impact than Europe did on nineteenth-century American culture.
b. Between 1650 and 1831, more Africans than Europeans came to the Americas.
c. Africa was physically closer than Europe to America.
d. Africans made a greater contribution than Europeans did to the economies of the Americas.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.1 West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
15) The earliest recorded contacts between Native Americans and Europeans suggest that the Native
Americans responded with __________.
a. curiosity
b. hostility
c. fear
d. indifference
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.2 First Contact: Competing Expectations
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
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,16) Which of the following seemed most useful to Native Americans?
a. European ideas
b. European crops
c. European labor
d. European manufactured goods
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.2 First Contact: Competing Expectations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
17) Which of the following helps explain why Europeans often concluded that Native Americans held
them in high regard?
a. In most cases, they did not understand Native American languages.
b. Native Americans made every effort to create this impression.
c. Europeans always got the better deal in trade negotiations.
d. Europeans had many characteristics that Native American peoples associated with the gods.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.2 First Contact: Competing Expectations
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
18) Historical demographers estimate that some Native American tribes suffered between ______ of a
loss of population during the first century of European contact.
a. 90–95%
b. 50–55%
c. 20–30%
d. 5–10%
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.3 Trauma of Contact: Europeans and Native Americans
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
19) Which of the following posed the greatest danger to Native American peoples after the arrival of
Europeans?
a. Disease
b. Warfare
c. Famine
d. Forced labor
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.3 Trauma of Contact: Europeans and Native Americans
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
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,20) The potato had a long history in the New World, having been cultivated for at least 8,000 years by the
__________.
a. Anasazi in the Southwest United States
b. Aztec in Central Mexico
c. Inca in Peru
d. Maya in Central Mexico
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.4 Past and Present: New World Exploration and the Modern American Diet
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
21) What was a long-term effect of the introduction of New World vegetables on Europe?
a. It allowed the Scots-Irish to migrate to New England.
b. The availability of additional calories supported the movement of people from rural to urban areas.
c. It prompted colonists to seek an African labor force to grow the vegetable crops.
d. It exposed Europeans to new fatal diseases.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.4 Past and Present: New World Exploration and the Modern American Diet
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connection
22) What was one reason that Scandinavians eventually abandoned their outposts in the New World?
a. The hostility of native peoples
b. Lack of available resources for survival
c. Attacks by Spanish explorers
d. Outbreaks of disease
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.3 What factors explain Spain’s early dominance in New World exploration and
colonization?
Topic: 1.3 Europe on the Eve of Conquest
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
23) Why might Spain’s rise to the status of an imperial power have seemed unlikely in the early fifteenth
century?
a. Spain had a tiny population compared to England.
b. Spain lacked rich natural resources and possessed few good seaports.
c. Spain had no experience with contact with non-Europeans.
d. Spain’s rulers showed little signs of ambition.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.3 What factors explain Spain’s early dominance in New World exploration and
colonization?
Topic: 1.3.1 Spain's New World Empire
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
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,24) Columbus was obsessed with the idea of voyaging west across the Atlantic Ocean to reach
__________.
a. Siam
b. China
c. Australia
d. India
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.3 What factors explain Spain’s early dominance in New World exploration and
colonization?
Topic: 1.3.2 Voyages across an Uncharted Ocean
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
25) The Portuguese rejected Columbus’s proposed route to Cathay in favor of a(n) __________.
a. voyage around the continent of Africa
b. northern route across the Atlantic
c. overland route through Russia
d. voyage around the continent of South America
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.3 What factors explain Spain’s early dominance in New World exploration and
colonization?
Topic: 1.3.2 Voyages across an Uncharted Ocean
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
26) Educated Europeans of the fifteenth century believed that the __________.
a. world was flat
b. world was infinitely large
c. world was round
d. Atlantic Ocean was endless
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.3 What factors explain Spain’s early dominance in New World exploration and
colonization?
Topic: 1.3.2 Voyages across an Uncharted Ocean
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
27) At the time of his death, Columbus __________.
a. was almost penniless
b. still believed he had traveled to Asia
c. was convinced he had discovered a new continent
d. was the most hated man in Spain
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.3 What factors explain Spain’s early dominance in New World exploration and
colonization?
Topic: 1.3.2 Voyages across an Uncharted Ocean
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Copyright © 2025 Pearson Education, Inc.
, 28) The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 divided the world between Portugal and __________.
a. England
b. France
c. the papacy
d. Spain
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 1.4 How did the Spanish conquest of Central and South America transform Native
American cultures?
Topic: 1.4 Spain in the Americas
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
29) The conquistadores were __________.
a. Catholic missionaries
b. merchants and traders
c. independent military adventurers
d. peasant settlers
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.4 How did the Spanish conquest of Central and South America transform Native
American cultures?
Topic: 1.4.1 The Conquistadores: Faith and Greed
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
30) Which of the following was key to Cortés’s victory over the Aztecs?
a. Spaniards had much more advanced technology.
b. The Aztecs had very limited experience with warfare
c. The Aztecs adopted a position of nonviolence towards Europeans
d. Spaniards convinced Montezuma’s generals to defect against him
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.4 How did the Spanish conquest of Central and South America transform Native
American cultures?
Topic: 1.4.1 The Conquistadores: Faith and Greed
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
31) The encomienda system centered on __________.
a. governmental hierarchies
b. trade relations with Native American peoples
c. the establishment of new cities
d. forced labor
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 1.4 How did the Spanish conquest of Central and South America transform Native
American cultures?
Topic: 1.4.2 From Adventure to Government
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Copyright © 2025 Pearson Education, Inc.
United States, Volume 2, 5th edition Brands
Notes
1- The file is chapter after chapter.
2- We have shown you few pages sample.
3- The file contains all Appendix and Excel sheet
if it exists.
4- We have all what you need, we make update
at every time. There are many new editions
waiting you.
5- If you think you purchased the wrong file You
can contact us at every time, we can replace it
with true one.
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, Chapter 1: New World Encounters, Preconquest–1608
Multiple-Choice Questions
1) Beringia can best be described as a ________.
a. land bridge
b. large ship
c. transcontinental sea route
d. short land voyage
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.1 What explains cultural differences among Native American groups before the
European conquest?
Topic: 1.1.1 Indigenous Peoples Before European Contact
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
2) __________ played a major part in facilitating the migration of humans into North America.
a. Cultural preferences
b. Epidemics
c. Warfare
d. Environmental conditions
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 1.1 What explains cultural differences among Native American groups before the
European conquest?
Topic: 1.1 Native American Histories before the Conquest
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
3) Knowledge of maize, squash, and beans spread __________.
a. west from the Atlantic coast
b. south from the Great Plains
c. south from the Pacific Northwest
d. north from central Mexico
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 1.1 What explains cultural differences among Native American groups before the
European conquest?
Topic: 1.1.2 Food, Climate, and Culture: The Challenge
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Copyright © 2025 Pearson Education, Inc.
,4) Which of the following was a consequence of the Agricultural Revolution?
a. Native American peoples stopped hunting mammals.
b. Native American peoples gained greater control over their food supply.
c. Epidemic diseases swept across the Americas.
d. Warfare became far less common in the Americas.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.1 What explains cultural differences among Native American groups before the
European conquest?
Topic: 1.1.2 Food, Climate, and Culture: The Challenge
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
5) The Agricultural Revolution allowed the Native Americans of Mexico and Central America to
__________.
a. build more complex societies
b. invent the wheel
c. build peaceful societies
d. conquer much of North America
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.1 What explains cultural differences among Native American groups before the
European conquest?
Topic: 1.1.3 Mexico’s Aztec Empire
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
6) Tenochtitlán was the main ceremonial center of the __________.
a. Mayas
b. Toltecs
c. Incas
d. Aztecs
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 1.1 What explains cultural differences among Native American groups before the
European conquest?
Topic: 1.1.3 Mexico’s Aztec Empire
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
7) __________ groups occupied much of the Atlantic coast from North Carolina to Maine.
a. Hopi
b. Algonquian
c. Comanche
d. Seminole
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.1 What explains cultural differences among Native American groups before the
European conquest?
Topic: 1.1.4 Eastern Woodland Cultures
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Copyright © 2025 Pearson Education, Inc.
,8) Most Native Americans defined their place in society through __________.
a. kinship
b. religion
c. wealth
d. job descriptions
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.1 What explains cultural differences among Native American groups before the
European conquest?
Topic: 1.1.4 Eastern Woodland Cultures
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
9) What did fifteenth-century Portuguese explorers and Christopher Columbus have in common?
a. Both were primarily interested in spreading Catholicism.
b. Both were hoping to make scientific contributions.
c. Both hoped to find a sea route to Asia.
d. Both were determined to find undiscovered lands.
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2 Conditions of Conquest
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
10) Who introduced Islam to West Africa?
a. Political emissaries
b. Missionaries
c. Traders
d. Soldiers
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.1 West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
11) When European traders first arrived in West Africa, the major states would have included Mali,
Benin, and __________.
a. Nubia
b. Mombasa
c. Great Zimbabwe
d. Kongo
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.1 West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Copyright © 2025 Pearson Education, Inc.
,12) What did the Portuguese hope to acquire in Africa?
a. Silk and spices
b. Horses and cattle
c. Gold and slaves
d. Cotton and tobacco
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.1 West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
13) Why did European slave traders accept African trade regulations?
a. They had no choice.
b. The slave trade was incredibly profitable.
c. Their rulers had signed trade agreements with African princes.
d. They were fair to both sides.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.1 West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
14) On what basis did historian Davis Eltis claim that “In terms of immigration alone . . . America was an
extension of Africa rather than Europe until the late nineteenth century”?
a. Africa had a much greater impact than Europe did on nineteenth-century American culture.
b. Between 1650 and 1831, more Africans than Europeans came to the Americas.
c. Africa was physically closer than Europe to America.
d. Africans made a greater contribution than Europeans did to the economies of the Americas.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.1 West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
15) The earliest recorded contacts between Native Americans and Europeans suggest that the Native
Americans responded with __________.
a. curiosity
b. hostility
c. fear
d. indifference
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.2 First Contact: Competing Expectations
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Copyright © 2025 Pearson Education, Inc.
,16) Which of the following seemed most useful to Native Americans?
a. European ideas
b. European crops
c. European labor
d. European manufactured goods
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.2 First Contact: Competing Expectations
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
17) Which of the following helps explain why Europeans often concluded that Native Americans held
them in high regard?
a. In most cases, they did not understand Native American languages.
b. Native Americans made every effort to create this impression.
c. Europeans always got the better deal in trade negotiations.
d. Europeans had many characteristics that Native American peoples associated with the gods.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.2 First Contact: Competing Expectations
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
18) Historical demographers estimate that some Native American tribes suffered between ______ of a
loss of population during the first century of European contact.
a. 90–95%
b. 50–55%
c. 20–30%
d. 5–10%
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.3 Trauma of Contact: Europeans and Native Americans
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
19) Which of the following posed the greatest danger to Native American peoples after the arrival of
Europeans?
a. Disease
b. Warfare
c. Famine
d. Forced labor
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.3 Trauma of Contact: Europeans and Native Americans
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Copyright © 2025 Pearson Education, Inc.
,20) The potato had a long history in the New World, having been cultivated for at least 8,000 years by the
__________.
a. Anasazi in the Southwest United States
b. Aztec in Central Mexico
c. Inca in Peru
d. Maya in Central Mexico
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.4 Past and Present: New World Exploration and the Modern American Diet
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
21) What was a long-term effect of the introduction of New World vegetables on Europe?
a. It allowed the Scots-Irish to migrate to New England.
b. The availability of additional calories supported the movement of people from rural to urban areas.
c. It prompted colonists to seek an African labor force to grow the vegetable crops.
d. It exposed Europeans to new fatal diseases.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.2 How did Europeans interact with West Africans and Native Americans during the
fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
Topic: 1.2.4 Past and Present: New World Exploration and the Modern American Diet
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connection
22) What was one reason that Scandinavians eventually abandoned their outposts in the New World?
a. The hostility of native peoples
b. Lack of available resources for survival
c. Attacks by Spanish explorers
d. Outbreaks of disease
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.3 What factors explain Spain’s early dominance in New World exploration and
colonization?
Topic: 1.3 Europe on the Eve of Conquest
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
23) Why might Spain’s rise to the status of an imperial power have seemed unlikely in the early fifteenth
century?
a. Spain had a tiny population compared to England.
b. Spain lacked rich natural resources and possessed few good seaports.
c. Spain had no experience with contact with non-Europeans.
d. Spain’s rulers showed little signs of ambition.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.3 What factors explain Spain’s early dominance in New World exploration and
colonization?
Topic: 1.3.1 Spain's New World Empire
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
Copyright © 2025 Pearson Education, Inc.
,24) Columbus was obsessed with the idea of voyaging west across the Atlantic Ocean to reach
__________.
a. Siam
b. China
c. Australia
d. India
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.3 What factors explain Spain’s early dominance in New World exploration and
colonization?
Topic: 1.3.2 Voyages across an Uncharted Ocean
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
25) The Portuguese rejected Columbus’s proposed route to Cathay in favor of a(n) __________.
a. voyage around the continent of Africa
b. northern route across the Atlantic
c. overland route through Russia
d. voyage around the continent of South America
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.3 What factors explain Spain’s early dominance in New World exploration and
colonization?
Topic: 1.3.2 Voyages across an Uncharted Ocean
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
26) Educated Europeans of the fifteenth century believed that the __________.
a. world was flat
b. world was infinitely large
c. world was round
d. Atlantic Ocean was endless
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.3 What factors explain Spain’s early dominance in New World exploration and
colonization?
Topic: 1.3.2 Voyages across an Uncharted Ocean
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
27) At the time of his death, Columbus __________.
a. was almost penniless
b. still believed he had traveled to Asia
c. was convinced he had discovered a new continent
d. was the most hated man in Spain
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 1.3 What factors explain Spain’s early dominance in New World exploration and
colonization?
Topic: 1.3.2 Voyages across an Uncharted Ocean
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Copyright © 2025 Pearson Education, Inc.
, 28) The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 divided the world between Portugal and __________.
a. England
b. France
c. the papacy
d. Spain
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 1.4 How did the Spanish conquest of Central and South America transform Native
American cultures?
Topic: 1.4 Spain in the Americas
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
29) The conquistadores were __________.
a. Catholic missionaries
b. merchants and traders
c. independent military adventurers
d. peasant settlers
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 1.4 How did the Spanish conquest of Central and South America transform Native
American cultures?
Topic: 1.4.1 The Conquistadores: Faith and Greed
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
30) Which of the following was key to Cortés’s victory over the Aztecs?
a. Spaniards had much more advanced technology.
b. The Aztecs had very limited experience with warfare
c. The Aztecs adopted a position of nonviolence towards Europeans
d. Spaniards convinced Montezuma’s generals to defect against him
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 1.4 How did the Spanish conquest of Central and South America transform Native
American cultures?
Topic: 1.4.1 The Conquistadores: Faith and Greed
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
31) The encomienda system centered on __________.
a. governmental hierarchies
b. trade relations with Native American peoples
c. the establishment of new cities
d. forced labor
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 1.4 How did the Spanish conquest of Central and South America transform Native
American cultures?
Topic: 1.4.2 From Adventure to Government
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Copyright © 2025 Pearson Education, Inc.
