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HIST321: Comparative New Worlds, 1400-1750
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1. Complete the following sentence.During the early modern period, large middle-class populations existed in all the following EXCEPT:
2. An early map of North America placed the Pacific Ocean just west of what region?
3. Why did Spain decline as a world power?
4. When Jacques Cartier landed in North America, why was he disappointed?
5. The primary objective of New World explorers in the 1500s was to do which of the following?
6. What was the source of historical accounts of Magellan's voyages?
7. Which of the following precipitated the transition from encomienda to chattel slavery in colonial Hispaniola?
8. In the early 17th century, why were Guiana Arawaks imported to Barbados?
9. What was the first commercial crop cultivated in Barbados?
10. What does the Amerindian word ouemichtigouchiou mean?
11. Why was there a labor shortage on plantations in British Guiana in the 1800s?
12. What was Vasco da Gama's reason for circumnavigating Africa?
13. Complete the following sentence.As part of his mercantilist policies, Jean-Baptiste Colbert did all the following EXCEPT:
14. Why was the Northwest Passage significant?
15. Aztecs employed human sacrifice to do which of the following?
16. At the founding of New France, what action was viewed as essential to the colony's survival?
17. Complete the following sentence.Between 1508 and 1511, the Spanish occupied all the following EXCEPT:
18. In 1689, the Karankawa Indians attacked which French settlement on the Gulf of Mexico coast?
19. The Age of Exploration resulted in which of the following?
20. Why did Spanish interest in Jamaica eventually fade?
21. Why did Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet team up to explore the Mississippi River in the latter 1600s?
22. What did South Carolina's proprietors envision for their new colony?
23. At Sault Ste. Marie in 1671, the French laid claim to what region?
24. What epidemic disease first hit the Aztecs after the Spanish arrival?
25. Complete the following sentence.All of the following were components of Bourbon reforms in New Spain EXCEPT:

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