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What was the main economic activity in New France?
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Building a fur trade
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Who conquered the Aztec empire?
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Hernando Cortes
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Why did Europeans see Africans as a better source of labor than native Americans?
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Africans were strangers to the Americas and had no allies.
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What was the purpose of most of the joint stock companies of the 1500s and 1600s?
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Funding colonies in the Americas
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Where in the Americas did Christopher Columbus land first?
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An island in the Caribbean
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What did the encomienda system supply for New Spain?
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Acheap source of labor
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What prompted a wave of new businesses and trade practices in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries?
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New wealth from the Americas and the growth of overseas trade.
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What European counrty was the first to import enslaved Africans to the Americas?
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Spain
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As part of the Columbian exchange, what was carried west accross the Atlantic?
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Livestock
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Which area was originally founded as a settlement by the Dutch?
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New York
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T/F Today's mestizos are decendants of Portuguese colonist and native Americans.
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Spanish colonist
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T/F Francisco Pizarro and his army defeated the Inca by killing a largely unarmed group and then kidnapping and murdering the king.
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True
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Hernando Cortes marched his forces of 600 men through Mexico to capture the Aztec empire.
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True
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T/F The encomiendas were Spanish explorers who conquered the colonist areas of what is now Mexico, South America, and the United States.
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False/ Conquistadores
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T/F The purpose of Columbus's second voyage to the Americas was to establish Spanish colonies in the islands of the Carribean.
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True
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