American Pageant Chapter 1

The geography of N Am was shaped by glaciers  

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• False

Natives peoples of NE Asia migrated across the land bridge until the time of Columbus

• True
• False

Early Indian civilizations of Mexico and Peru had an economy based on herding and wheat

• True
• False

Most Indians N of Mexico lived in small seminomadic agricultural and hunting communities

• True
• False

Many Indian cultures like the Iroquois traced descent and passed possessions down the female line

• True
• False

No European ever set foot on the American continents prior to the arrival of Columbus

• True
• False

A primary motive for European voyages of discovery was the desire to find a less expensive route to Asia's goods and markets

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• False

African slavery first developed in the aftermath of the Spanish conquest of America

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• False

Columbus immediately recognized that he had come across a continent previously unknown to Europe

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• False

The greatest effect of the European intrusion into Am was to increase the Indian/Mestizo population through intermarriage

• True
• False