Question 1

Which of the following statements about Tenochtitlan is not correct?

Accepted Answer

A)  The city boasted clean streets, markets, and a zoo. 
B)  Compared to Paris or Venice, Tenochtitlan was a small, rural village. 
C)  Tenochtitlan's neighborhoods were organized according to the inhabitants' wealth and status. 
D)  All sorts of goods and services could be found at the city market called Tlateloco. 
A)  The city boasted clean streets, markets, and a zoo. 
B)  Compared to Paris or Venice, Tenochtitlan was a small, rural village. 
C)  Tenochtitlan's neighborhoods were organized according to the inhabitants' wealth and status. 
D)  All sorts of goods and services could be found at the city market called Tlateloco.

Question 2

While the Spanish were occupied expelling Muslims, Portugal was

Accepted Answer

A)  Locked in a bloody civil war. 
B)  Developing ship technology that enabled her sailors to explore the coast of Africa. 
C)  Developing the printing press. 
D)  Protecting her overland trade routes to China. 
A)  Locked in a bloody civil war. 
B)  Developing ship technology that enabled her sailors to explore the coast of Africa. 
C)  Developing the printing press. 
D)  Protecting her overland trade routes to China.

Question 3

Iroquoian political decisions were

Accepted Answer

A)  Dictatorial and controlled by the hunters in the group. 
B)  Influenced by women because their work in agriculture was highly valued. 
C)  Determined by the League of Five Nations, which was also called Deganawidah in Iroquoian language. 
D)  Fair minded and egalitarian because women who were primarily hunters and gatherers controlled decision making. 
A)  Dictatorial and controlled by the hunters in the group. 
B)  Influenced by women because their work in agriculture was highly valued. 
C)  Determined by the League of Five Nations, which was also called Deganawidah in Iroquoian language. 
D)  Fair minded and egalitarian because women who were primarily hunters and gatherers controlled decision making.

Question 4

What explains the dramatic growth in world population beginning in the sixteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  Medical advances pioneered in treating Native Americans suffering from smallpox. 
B)  The introduction of wheat in the Americas. 
C)  The intermingling of Europeans and Americans, which resulted in higher birth rates. 
D)  The introduction of corn and potatoes in the Old World. 
A)  Medical advances pioneered in treating Native Americans suffering from smallpox. 
B)  The introduction of wheat in the Americas. 
C)  The intermingling of Europeans and Americans, which resulted in higher birth rates. 
D)  The introduction of corn and potatoes in the Old World.

Question 5

Which of the following statements about Moctezuma is correct?

Accepted Answer

A)  Moctezuma II was also known as Montezuma. 
B)  Mocteczuma II was a woman who was the religious leader of the Mexica. 
C)  Moctezuma II was the queen of the Coatzacoalcos and she married Mocteczuma before the arrival of the Spanish. 
D)  Mocteczuma II was the thirty-year-old Aztec warrior chief of Mexico. 
A)  Moctezuma II was also known as Montezuma. 
B)  Mocteczuma II was a woman who was the religious leader of the Mexica. 
C)  Moctezuma II was the queen of the Coatzacoalcos and she married Mocteczuma before the arrival of the Spanish. 
D)  Mocteczuma II was the thirty-year-old Aztec warrior chief of Mexico.

Question 6

How did Malinche contribute to Hernando Cortés's conquest of the Aztec empire?

Accepted Answer

A)  She betrayed her own mother, the ruler of the Chontal Maya. 
B)  She was held hostage until her people gave him more gold. 
C)  She interpreted Spanish and Nathuatl languages so he could speak with native people. 
D)  She revealed the fastest route to their capital at Tenochtitlán. 
A)  She betrayed her own mother, the ruler of the Chontal Maya. 
B)  She was held hostage until her people gave him more gold. 
C)  She interpreted Spanish and Nathuatl languages so he could speak with native people. 
D)  She revealed the fastest route to their capital at Tenochtitlán.

Question 7

What explains the conquistadors' conviction that glimmering cities of gold existed in the Americas?

Accepted Answer

A)  They had read other travelers' reports. 
B)  Much of the gold Europeans had acquired over centuries originated in the Americas. 
C)  European metallurgists offered evidence of gold-bearing soils in Mesoamerica. 
D)  Indians told Europeans of glittering empires further west to get rid of the intruders. 
A)  They had read other travelers' reports. 
B)  Much of the gold Europeans had acquired over centuries originated in the Americas. 
C)  European metallurgists offered evidence of gold-bearing soils in Mesoamerica. 
D)  Indians told Europeans of glittering empires further west to get rid of the intruders.

Question 8

Why did women have a voice in the selection of chiefs among the Iroquoian people?

Accepted Answer

Their work in agriculture was

Question 9

How did the Iroquois and Algonquian cultures clear land for crops of corn and other vegetables?

Accepted Answer

They emplo

Question 10

Columbus was born into a world

Accepted Answer

A)  Controlled by Muslim clerics. 
B)  Flooded with cheap imports from China. 
C)  Influenced by European investors seeking low-risk investments. 
D)  Unimpressed and uninfluenced by Europe. 
A)  Controlled by Muslim clerics. 
B)  Flooded with cheap imports from China. 
C)  Influenced by European investors seeking low-risk investments. 
D)  Unimpressed and uninfluenced by Europe.

Question 11

Columbus's attitude toward the Taino or Arawak people and other native people in general was

Accepted Answer

A)  Based on his ignorance of native cultural traditions. 
B)  Based on the Europeans' assumptions that the natives were inferior to the Europeans. 
C)  Disrespectful. 
D)  Each statement is accurate. 
A)  Based on his ignorance of native cultural traditions. 
B)  Based on the Europeans' assumptions that the natives were inferior to the Europeans. 
C)  Disrespectful. 
D)  Each statement is accurate.

Question 12

Why did most Anasazi return to hunting and gathering practices at times?

Accepted Answer

A)  They lacked the skills of Mesoamerican corn cultivators. 
B)  They could grow corn, but without beans this proved an insufficient diet. 
C)  Changing climates and nomadic enemies forced them to resort to alternative forms of sustenance. 
D)  The poor soil of the Southwest only produced three or four crops before it was depleted and communities had to move on. 
A)  They lacked the skills of Mesoamerican corn cultivators. 
B)  They could grow corn, but without beans this proved an insufficient diet. 
C)  Changing climates and nomadic enemies forced them to resort to alternative forms of sustenance. 
D)  The poor soil of the Southwest only produced three or four crops before it was depleted and communities had to move on.

Question 13

Despite their motivation to get rid of the Spanish, Native Americans lost the battles to the Spanish because

Accepted Answer

A)  The Aztecs and others had horses but no guns. 
B)  The Aztecs and others could not compete against advanced European technology. 
C)  They were preoccupied most of the time trying to take Spanish soldiers as prisoners of war. 
D)  The Spanish outnumbered the Native warriors. 
A)  The Aztecs and others had horses but no guns. 
B)  The Aztecs and others could not compete against advanced European technology. 
C)  They were preoccupied most of the time trying to take Spanish soldiers as prisoners of war. 
D)  The Spanish outnumbered the Native warriors.

Question 14

Among other things, the Mississippian people were known for

Accepted Answer

A)  Building mounds, some for ceremonial purposes and some as burial sites. 
B)  Discovering how to extract gold and silver from ore. 
C)  Living in tipis that could be moved easily. 
D)  Surviving on roots and nuts. 
A)  Building mounds, some for ceremonial purposes and some as burial sites. 
B)  Discovering how to extract gold and silver from ore. 
C)  Living in tipis that could be moved easily. 
D)  Surviving on roots and nuts.

Question 15

The most profitable commodity produced on North American Spanish plantations in the 1500s was

Accepted Answer

A)  Rice. 
B)  Cotton. 
C)  Sugar. 
D)  Tobacco. 
A)  Rice. 
B)  Cotton. 
C)  Sugar. 
D)  Tobacco.

Question 16

Before Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain in 1492, what did he want?

Accepted Answer

He asked for permission and fi

Question 17

Queen Isabel was motivated to support Columbus's first voyage west because

Accepted Answer

A)  She hoped Columbus could get a foothold to trade with the East. 
B)  She had money to invest in a venture that would strengthen Spain's position in the world. 
C)  She was desperate to prevent her newly unified country from falling into economic dependence. 
D)  Each statement is correct. 
A)  She hoped Columbus could get a foothold to trade with the East. 
B)  She had money to invest in a venture that would strengthen Spain's position in the world. 
C)  She was desperate to prevent her newly unified country from falling into economic dependence. 
D)  Each statement is correct.

Question 18

The Columbian Exchange refers to the process by which

Accepted Answer

A)  Goods, germs, and ideas travel from the Old World to the New World. 
B)  The environments in both the Old World and the New World changed and that, in turn, changed the plants and animals. 
C)  Goods, germs, and ideas travel from the New World to the Old World. 
D)  Goods, germs, and ideas travel from the Old World to the New World and the New World to the Old World. 
A)  Goods, germs, and ideas travel from the Old World to the New World. 
B)  The environments in both the Old World and the New World changed and that, in turn, changed the plants and animals. 
C)  Goods, germs, and ideas travel from the New World to the Old World. 
D)  Goods, germs, and ideas travel from the Old World to the New World and the New World to the Old World.

Question 19

From Maya and Aztec writings and other cultural indications, we can conclude that

Accepted Answer

A)  They were probably the most violent people at the time. 
B)  Maya and Aztec people lived in a complex political world complete with alliances with different groups. 
C)  The Maya especially lived in isolated, rural communities. 
D)  Aztec cities were ruled by dictatorial chiefs who did not give their subjects any voice in decision making. 
A)  They were probably the most violent people at the time. 
B)  Maya and Aztec people lived in a complex political world complete with alliances with different groups. 
C)  The Maya especially lived in isolated, rural communities. 
D)  Aztec cities were ruled by dictatorial chiefs who did not give their subjects any voice in decision making.

Question 20

Ponce de León was the first European who

Accepted Answer

A)  Convinced Aztecs to accept Spanish authority so they could preserve their religion. 
B)  Discovered gold in the New World. 
C)  Sailed around the world in a continuous voyage. 
D)  Set foot on the mainland that would become the United States. 
A)  Convinced Aztecs to accept Spanish authority so they could preserve their religion. 
B)  Discovered gold in the New World. 
C)  Sailed around the world in a continuous voyage. 
D)  Set foot on the mainland that would become the United States.

Exam 1: Worlds in Motion, 1450-1550

Which of the following statements about Tenochtitlan is not correct?

While the Spanish were occupied expelling Muslims, Portugal was

Iroquoian political decisions were

What explains the dramatic growth in world population beginning in the sixteenth century?

Which of the following statements about Moctezuma is correct?

How did Malinche contribute to Hernando Cortés's conquest of the Aztec empire?

What explains the conquistadors' conviction that glimmering cities of gold existed in the Americas?

Why did women have a voice in the selection of chiefs among the Iroquoian people?

How did the Iroquois and Algonquian cultures clear land for crops of corn and other vegetables?

Columbus was born into a world

Columbus's attitude toward the Taino or Arawak people and other native people in general was

Why did most Anasazi return to hunting and gathering practices at times?

Despite their motivation to get rid of the Spanish, Native Americans lost the battles to the Spanish because

Among other things, the Mississippian people were known for

The most profitable commodity produced on North American Spanish plantations in the 1500s was

Before Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain in 1492, what did he want?

Queen Isabel was motivated to support Columbus's first voyage west because

The Columbian Exchange refers to the process by which

From Maya and Aztec writings and other cultural indications, we can conclude that

Ponce de León was the first European who

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