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- Martin Luther initiated the Reformation through his Ninety-five Theses
- Most ______ were able to vote in the Early days of the American Colonies
- Pequot/Puritan War: When Pequot warriors killed an English trader in 1636, Puritan militiamen and their Indian allies retaliated by ________________ Pequots in 1637 and driving the survivors from the region.
- The transition to slave labor was more gradual in the
- A Parliamentary army let by Oliver Cromwell fought against royalist forces for control of the country (English Civil War), which led to the beheading of __________
- By becoming a Christian, buying one's freedom, or petitioning for one's freedom in the courts, an enterprising African could become a _____________
- Seeing themselves as God's chosen people, the _________ justified taking Native American land on religious grounds
- Being a ________ was becoming a permanent and hereditary condition, synonymous with African people.
- The Christian Church devised a religious calendar that transformed pagan agricultural festivals into
- The decline of Mesoamerica's population from _____ million in 1500 to just _____ million in 1650 represented one of the great demographic disasters in world history.
- The English at Jamestown expected tribute from local Indians. Powhatan, the paramount chief of thirty tribal chiefdoms, expected tribute from the English in exchange for supplying them with food. Disputes over who would pay tribute to whom resulted in uneasy relations and eventual warfare.
- Which of the following features characteristized most Native North Americans spiritual views and practices
- The Maryland Assembly's passage of the Maryland Act of Religious Toleration was most likely spurred in part by which of the following events taking place in England
- Infant mortality rates among the peasants were high from?
- Between 1500 and 1650 at least ________ Spaniards migrated to Mesoamerica and western South America
- In 1649, upon urging from Lord Baltimore, the assembly enacted the Toleration Act, taking religious freedom to all Christians.
- Life was harsh in the colonies of North America and the Caribbean, and diseases, especially malaria, kept population low and life expectancy short. Although 15,000 English arrived in Virginia between 1622 and 1640, the population rose only from 3,000 to 9,000.
- Who were the first to welcome French Catholic Missionaries or "Black Robes"
- The crusades, despite their limited military success, were significant in that they strengthened Islam in Europe and contributed to the persecution of Jews
- _______ the ruler of the most powerful nation in Europe and an ardent Catholic.