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Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration and Conquest (College Board AP® US History): Exam Questions

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11 mark
Line graph showing the decline in the Native American population of Mexico from 25 million in 1518 to under 2 million by 1593.
James Killoran et al., The Key to Understanding Global History, Jarret Publishing

Which of the following was a significant long-term cause of the trend from 1500-1600 as shown in the graph?

  • Famine in the Great Basin 

  • The dispersal of the Pueblo people from the region after climatic changes in the area 

  • The defeat of Mexica 

  • The Columbian Exchange

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21 mark
Line graph showing the decline in the Native American population of Mexico from 25 million in 1518 to under 2 million by 1593.
James Killoran et al., The Key to Understanding Global History, Jarret Publishing

Which of the following was a direct effect of the trend in the Indigenous people's population as shown on the graph?

  • Spain’s encomienda system

  • Juanillo’s Revolt, 1597

  • The development of Maroon communities

  • The casta system  

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31 mark
Line graph showing the decline in the Native American population of Mexico from 25 million in 1518 to under 2 million by 1593.
James Killoran et al., The Key to Understanding Global History, Jarret Publishing

The main trend shown in the graph was most directly associated with which of the following processes occurring in the United States at the time? 

  • The slave trade system

  • The emergence of new settlements

  • Religious adaptation

  • European colonization 

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