Exploration Motives Flashcard

Front

Which of the following was NOT a motive for early exploration in the Americas?
Desires to spread Christianity, fur-trading posts, all-water route to Asia

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To strengthen a European alliance

Front

What issue led to the decline of the Native population in Southwest North America by the 1490's?

Back

Drought and other hostile natives

Front

Which settlement region would you find the Iroquois Confederation?

Back

Northeast

Front

What was the line called that was drawn up by the pope and later modified by Spain and Portugal to divide the new territories?

Back

line of Demarcation

Front

Which plant did Europeans not get in the Columbian Exchange? Options: beans, tobacco, Corn, Sugar cane

Back

Sugar cane

Front

What impact did the Columbian Exchange have on population?

Back

European population increased while population in the Americas declined

Front

Which European dissented from the views of most Europeans in regard to Native Americans when he pushed for better treatment and the New Laws of 1542?

Back

Bartolomé de Las Casas

Front

The debate over the treatment of Native Americans in Spain was known as the

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Valladolid Debate

Front

All of the following were reasons that English and Spanish relations differed with Native Americans EXCEPT:
Disease had wiped out a large percentage of the Native population by the time the English arrived
Large established native empires didn't exist in the northeast region of North America where the English settled
The English arrived in families and didn't have the same need to establish a caste system

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The English respected the culture of the Native population and therefore didn't have much conflict.

Front

The French built trade posts in all of the following locations except? St. Lawrence Valley, Great Lakes region, Along the Mississippi

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Florida