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eCore US History Final Exam 07GMergel The Columbian Exchange was - >>>>the transatlantic flow of plants, animals, and germs that began after Christopher Columbus reached the New World. Christopher Columbus had to convince his sponsors that the earth is round. (True or False?) - >>>>False The system designed to provide labor for the Spanish mines and sugar plantations was the ______. - >>>>Encomienda The Treaty of Tordesillas - >>>>divided the New World between the Spanish and the Portuguese. Mercantilism was - >>>>the exercise of government controls over imports, exports and economic activities generally. The series of attempts by Christian armies to retake the Holy Lands from Muslims was known as _________. - >>>>The Crusades Which of the following does not describe a form of slavery traditionally practiced in Africa? - >>>>A system in which people are enslaved permanently on account of their race The city of ________, part of the Mali empire became a leading center for Muslim scholarship and trade. - >>>>Timbuktu Portugal built its empire in Western Africa by holding large colonies on the Atlantic Coastline. (True or False?) - >>>>False Which of the following served as reasons for Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain to support Columbus's first voyage in 1492? Check all that apply. - >>>>Expand Catholicism Gain an economic advantage over Portugal What sixteenth-century European upheaval had a profound impact upon England's settlement of the New World? - >>>>The Protestant Reformation In the 1580s, the English attempted to make a settlement at - >>>>Roanoke A major impetus for the initial French settlement of Canada was - >>>>the fur trade with the Indians. Which of the follow was well known for his criticism of the Europeans' treatment of the Indians of Mesoamerica and South America? - >>>>Bartholome de las Casas What was the location of the largest mound-building culture in early North America? - >>>>Cahokia The Hohokam people of modern-day Arizona were best known for which of the following? - >>>>canal construction The Aztec built their empire from the capital of - >>>>Tenochtitlán Which crop did the Europeans bring to the New World? - >>>>wheat What caused the deaths of most of the native population of Hispaniola in the early 1500s? - >>>>an epidemic of smallpox Which Southwestern tribe was first to bu

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