Exam 2: When Worlds Collide

Which statement best characterizes the conquistadors' military activities in the Americas?

John White and Thomas Harriot believed that an English colony in Virginia should be based on __________.

Which of these helps explain the rapid recovery of European agriculture after the Black Death?

Which of these was a primary cause of the tripling of Western Europe's population between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries?

Briefly summarize the views of Bartolomé de Las Casas in his Destruction of the Indies. Did they change Spanish imperial policy?

Before 1492, Western Europe was __________.

England's first ventures into the New World were motivated by rivalry with and fear of __________.

Who wrote The Destruction of the Indies?

How did English economic and social conditions in the sixteenth century affect English expansion?

Bartolomé de las Casas's critique of the Spanish in the Americas amounted to a charge of __________.

The Protestant Reformation was initially sparked by __________.

Columbus's claims about what he would reach by sailing west across the Atlantic __________.

Which of these explains most of the decline in the Indian population living in the Americas?

The heart of the dynamic European commercialism of the late Middle Ages lay in the city-states of __________.

Who led the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs?

What role did Italian cities play in the medieval economy?

One hundred years after Columbus, the nation whose interest in the New World most enraged King Philip II was __________.

St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied European city in North America, dating from __________.

Which of these events happened first?

What were the main elements of the Columbian Exchange between the New and Old Worlds? What were the benefits of this exchange for each region? What were its most negative effects?