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HIST321: Comparative New Worlds, 1400-1750
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1. Why did Spain decline as a world power?
2. In order to encourage settlement in New Netherland, which of the following was implemented in 1629?
3. What was the first commercial crop cultivated in Barbados?
4. Aztecs employed human sacrifice to do which of the following?
5. Complete the following sentence.As part of his mercantilist policies, Jean-Baptiste Colbert did all the following EXCEPT:
6. Fill in the blank. The Amérique Septentrionale map depicts California as being ______________.
7. What was the cause of King Philip's War?
8. How did the Spanish crown seek to regulate the Peruvian economy in the 1500s?
9. The Molyneux Map was famously cited in a play by who?
10. During its early colonization of the Americas, why did Spain mandate that all trade pass through Veracruz?
11. Complete the following sentence.In the Spanish Americas, the responsibilities of an encomendero included all the following EXCEPT:
12. King William's War was caused by which of the following?
13. What caused about 80 percent of the Aztec Empire to become destroyed?
14. In the early 1500s, what was the main commodity exported from Brazil?
15. In the 1600s, why did the Dutch establish a trading post at Fort Orange?
16. Slaves on the Mosquito Coast were primarily used for which of the following?
17. The primary objective of New World explorers in the 1500s was to do which of the following?
18. At Sault Ste. Marie in 1671, the French laid claim to what region?
19. As a result of the Edict of Nantes (1598), Catholics and which other group had parallel rights in New France?
20. What were England's Navigation Acts intended to be?
21. When Captain John Smith arrived in New England in 1614, what was his primary goal?
22. Burnaby's Code codified and expanded regulations in which fledgling colony in the Caribbean?
23. What was the outcome of King George's War in North America?
24. Which of the following precipitated the transition from encomienda to chattel slavery in colonial Hispaniola?
25. Why did John Cabot receive financial backing for his New World voyages from England?

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