Exam 1: When Old Worlds Collide: Encounters in the Atlantic World to 1600

Unlike Spain, Portugal refused to enslave Africans.

The first European slaves were black Africans.

Before the nineteenth century, more than of the people who sailed across the Atlantic were slaves.

The early Native American civilization to leave detailed written records of their activities were the

During the long history of the Atlantic slave trade, nearly every African shipped overseas had first been enslaved by other Africans.

Many Mesoamerican artifacts have been found in the southeastern United States.

Vasco da Gama was the first European to reach India via an eastward water route.

Christopher Columbus

One of the major advantages Portugal had in the race for exploration was the trailblazing maneuvers of navigator Prince Henry .

The papal decree that divided the Americas between Portugal and Spain was called the_____________.

Humans definitely were living in parts of Alaska about_____________ years ago.

In the period 1530 to 1630, the population of Mexico and Peru decreased by nearly

Atahualapa

The_____________ practiced human sacrifice on a scale that had no parallel anywhere else in the world.

Describe the successes and failures of Christopher Columbus's voyages at the end of the fifteenth century.

The Aztec capital,_____________, was more populated than any western European city.

The Norse exerted a significant impact on American history well into the 1500s.

By the mid-1600s, there were_____________ Spanish missions in Florida containing about 26,000 converted Indians.

Christians during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries did not believe in executing people for violating religious doctrines.

By_____________, the Pueblo, Apache, and Navajo Indians of New Mexico had accepted baptism.