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the natural world rather than as members of a society. Virtually all Europeans who
produced a written record of their encounters with the Native peoples of North America
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understood their contact with the indigenous Other through the lens of discovery.
Of course, in reality discovery unfolded as a mutual process where the peoples of
the Eastern and Western Hemispheres came to know each other.
On the ground, however, the reality of European conquest varied.”
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Michael Witgen, An Infinity of Nations: How the Native
New World Shaped Early North America, 2012.
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4. Which of the following factors most directly contributed to the ideas expressed by Witgen?
(A) Europeans created a unified vision of economic systems in the New World.
(B) Europeans produced very similar migration patterns.
(C) British colonists lived among and sought to accommodate Native Americans.
(D) Native Americans allied with and fought Europeans to maintain land.
5. Which of the following groups were least likely to displace Native Americans in the
process of colonization?
(A) English colonists
(B) French colonists
(C) Spanish colonists
(D) Portuguese colonists
6. Which of the following is an important consequence of the historical developments
described in the excerpt above?
(A) Competition over resources decreased tensions between European colonial empires.
(B) A growing acceptance of cultural pluralism improved relations between British
colonists and Native Americans.
(C) A decrease in the number of military confrontations with British colonists.
(D) Epidemic diseases radically changed demographics in the New World.

Questions 7–9 refer to the map.

NOR TH
AMERICA Linens, horses ENGLAND
NEW FRANCE EUROPE
ENGLISH
COLONIES Fish, furs, naval stores
New York Boston Manufactured goods
Philadelphia Manufactured goods Rice, indigo, hides
Baltimore Newport Tobacco Manufactured goods
Norfolk SPAIN
Wilmington Grain, fish, lumber, rum Wine, Fruit
Charleston Manufactured goods
Savannah PORTUGAL
SPANISH Rice ATLANTIC Wine
Enslaved people, Fish, livestock, flour, lumber OCEAN Madeira
FLORIDA Molasses, fruit
European products
sugar
people
Enslaved
N
W E S T
W E
Enslaved people, sugar
Caribbean S AFRIC A
I N D I E S
Sea Manufactured goods
Rum
IVORY, GOLD, AND
Enslaved people
SLAVE COASTS
SOUTH Enslaved people, gold
AMERICA
Major center of trade 0 500 1,000 miles
Major ocean trade route
0 500 1,000 kilometers
North Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century

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