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When Columbus first encountered the Tainos, how did he react?
 
  A)  He assumed they were bloodthirsty killers.
  B)  He said that they reminded him of residents of England.
  C)  He concluded that they were simplistic innocents who could be Christianized.
  D)  He wanted to sell them as slaves in earn gold.
  E)  He assumed that they were stupid savages who were good for nothing.

Question 2

Why are Hiawatha and Deganawidah significant to Iroquois culture?
 
  A) They are men from Iroquois oral history who united five separate tribes in the Iroquois Confederation.
  B) They were brothers who united the Iroquois around 1500.
  C) They were faith healers who, through prayer, saved the Iroquois from the ravages of small pox.
  D) They were Iroquois holy men who argued that the Iroquois nation could only be great if it eliminated all non-Iroquois.
  E) As the gods of the sun and the forest, they were the most important of the Iroquois gods.



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