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Robert Pierce
History 17A First Essay
First Exam
Part One--50%
You will be asked to answer one of the following:
1. List three ways in which the religious struggles in Europe from 1450 to 1700 shaped the development and exploration of America and give examples for each event.
2. Discuss at least three of the civilizations that existed in North and Central America before the arrival of Europeans. What examples of "civilized" behavior were present, what examples of commerce and science existed, and what happened to these civilizations?
3. Discuss the impact that European contact had on Native American life and the impact Native American life had on European life. Who, in your opinion, was the richer for the contact?
4. Describe how slavery developed and entrenched itself in the British North American colonies. Include a discussion of how racist ideologies developed.
5. "Wealth seeks political power." Discuss this axiom and its application to the development of the early British colonies.
6. "Capitalism came to America in the first ships." Discuss this statement as it applies to the British colonies in North America.
Part Two--50%
You will be asked to Identify and give the significance of four of the following:
1. Berengia
2. Glorious Revolution
3. John Winthrop
4. mercantilism
5. The Black Death
6. Marco Polo
7. Magna Carta
8. John Calvin
9. Charles I
10. Powhatan
1l. Middle Passage
12. War of Jenkins Ear
13. Anasazi
14. Cahokia
15. Richard Hakluyt
16. John Cabot
17. Half-Way Covenant
18. Oliver Cromwell
19. Anne Hutchinson
20. Reformation
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