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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year did the Mayflower land in the Americas?
(a) 1492.
(b) 1583.
(c) 1620.
(d) 1605.

2. What other name was used for the Seven Years' War?
(a) The Boer War.
(b) The French and Indian War.
(c) The War of Roses.
(d) The War of Spanish Succession.

3. Where did Europeans in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries learn techniques used for long-distance sea travel?
(a) From African nations.
(b) From East Asian nations.
(c) From West Asian nations.
(d) From Arab nations.

4. How does corn differ from most grains?
(a) It cannot be eaten raw.
(b) It cannot grow in the wild.
(c) It germinates beneath the soil.
(d) It's harvested by flooding the land.

5. What was the primary crop in Native American agriculture?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Millet.
(c) Corn.
(d) Wheat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Latin term for "land without people" (2)?

2. When was Massachusetts Bay Colony founded?

3. Native populations developed an extensive system of roadways. What did most of these early roadways eventually become?

4. What term does Dunbar-Ortiz use for land as a commodity?

5. According to the Dunbar-Ortiz, which population was the first to be forcibly organized and exploited by European aristocracy?

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