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,Test Bank - Unfinished nation concise history of the american people 9th edition
Answers Are The End Of Each Chapter.
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) The largest civilizations and political systems of pre-Columbian Native Americans
north of Mexico were less elaborate than the largest civilizations of Mexico and further
south.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) The eleventh-century explorations and discoveries of Leif Eriksson were
common knowledge in the European world of the fifteenth century.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Portuguese exploration in the late fifteenth century concentrated on finding a
route to central and eastern Asia by sailing around Africa.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) Christopher Columbus spent his early seafaring years in the service of the Portuguese.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) On his first voyage to the New World, Columbus realized that he discovered an
entirely new continent.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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,6) By 1550, Spaniards had explored the coast of North America as far north as Oregon
in the west.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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, 7) The early Spanish settlers were successful at establishing plantations, but not at
finding gold or silver.
⊚ true
⊚ false
8) Spanish mines in America yielded ten times as much gold and silver as the rest of
the world’s mines together.
⊚ true
⊚ false
9) Spanish colonists often intermarried with the Pueblo Indians they had colonized.
⊚ true
⊚ false
10) By the seventeenth century, the Spanish had given up their efforts to assimilate
the Indians to Spanish ways.
⊚ true
⊚ false
11) European life was relatively unchanged by the biological and cultural exchanges that
took place after discovery of the New World.
⊚ true
⊚ false
12) The nature in which native cultures in the Americas treated the sick helped
spread infectious diseases brought by European colonists.
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,Test Bank - Unfinished nation concise history of the american people 9th edition
Answers Are The End Of Each Chapter.
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) The largest civilizations and political systems of pre-Columbian Native Americans
north of Mexico were less elaborate than the largest civilizations of Mexico and further
south.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) The eleventh-century explorations and discoveries of Leif Eriksson were
common knowledge in the European world of the fifteenth century.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Portuguese exploration in the late fifteenth century concentrated on finding a
route to central and eastern Asia by sailing around Africa.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) Christopher Columbus spent his early seafaring years in the service of the Portuguese.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) On his first voyage to the New World, Columbus realized that he discovered an
entirely new continent.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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,6) By 1550, Spaniards had explored the coast of North America as far north as Oregon
in the west.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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, 7) The early Spanish settlers were successful at establishing plantations, but not at
finding gold or silver.
⊚ true
⊚ false
8) Spanish mines in America yielded ten times as much gold and silver as the rest of
the world’s mines together.
⊚ true
⊚ false
9) Spanish colonists often intermarried with the Pueblo Indians they had colonized.
⊚ true
⊚ false
10) By the seventeenth century, the Spanish had given up their efforts to assimilate
the Indians to Spanish ways.
⊚ true
⊚ false
11) European life was relatively unchanged by the biological and cultural exchanges that
took place after discovery of the New World.
⊚ true
⊚ false
12) The nature in which native cultures in the Americas treated the sick helped
spread infectious diseases brought by European colonists.
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