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HIST321: Comparative New Worlds, 1400-1750
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1. In 1707, why were 1,000 Africans imported into French Louisiana?
2. King James of England chartered which of the following companies in 1606?
3. Why did Captain John Smith become involved in plans to colonize Virginia?
4. Why was Verrazano looking for a strait to gain access to the Indian Ocean?
5. Complete the following sentence.All of the following characterized early Enlightenment thinkers EXCEPT:
6. The Molyneux Map was famously cited in a play by who?
7. Although the birthplace of John Cabot is not precisely known, it was most likely which city?
8. Why did John Cabot receive financial backing for his New World voyages from England?
9. Complete the following sentence.In 1663, a new royal government in New France sought to do all the following EXCEPT:
10. Why did Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet team up to explore the Mississippi River in the latter 1600s?
11. An early map of North America placed the Pacific Ocean just west of what region?
12. What was the original goal of France's first settlement in North America?
13. Fill in the blank. The Amérique Septentrionale map depicts California as being ______________.
14. Complete the following sentence.According to the Black Legend of the 1500s, the Spanish committed all of the following EXCEPT:
15. During its early colonization of the Americas, why did Spain mandate that all trade pass through Veracruz?
16. How did the Spanish crown seek to regulate the Peruvian economy in the 1500s?
17. In the early 17th century, why were Guiana Arawaks imported to Barbados?
18. Which European country was the first to export black Africans as slaves?
19. In the early 1500s, what was the main commodity exported from Brazil?
20. How was Spain able to control much of the Caribbean, large portions of the Americas, and parts of Africa by the mid-1500s?
21. In 1635, what was the first company to obtain a monopoly on French trade with the Antilles?
22. What was Vasco da Gama's reason for circumnavigating Africa?
23. Between 1531 and 1657, which of the following caused the major decline in the European population?
24. Why did Spain decline as a world power?
25. Why did slavery flourish in most areas in early British North America?

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