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Question #1
The Dutch practiced which of the following practices in establishing themselves as an economic powerhouse in the Caribbean?
A.
piracy, legitimate trade, and smuggling
B.
legitimate trade and smuggling
C.
smuggling
D.
piracy
Question #2
The Dutch East India Company possessed the power to
A.
negotiate treaties
B.
punish criminals
C.
punish criminals, establish colonies, and negotiate treaties
D.
establish colonies
Question #3
The Portuguese presence in Brazil was much larger than the Spanish presence in Meso and South America
A.
TRUE
B.
FALSE
Question #4
The Iberian Union, 1580-1640, was a brief period when Portugal and Spain were ruled by a single dynasty
A.
TRUE
B.
FALSE
Question #5
The New World crop that provided the basic modern food supply for the Irish during the early modern period
A.
Potato
B.
Lima bean
C.
Tobacco
D.
Wheat
Question #6
Witnessed Natives in Cuba smoking tobacco in pipes for ceremonial purposes
A.
Christopher Columbus
B.
Hernan Cortes
C.
Rodrigo de Jerez
D.
Francisco Pizzaro
Question #7
The ___________ was part of the bureaucracy of Spanish rule and oversaw developments in New Spain until the close of the colonial period
A.
Mita
B.
Donatarios
C.
Council of the Indies
D.
Encomienda
Question #8
The majority of the natives killed in the exploration period were slaughtered by the Europeans who possessed superior weapons
A.
TRUE
B.
FALSE
Question #9
New World Aztec "coins" from 1502
A.
Cacao beans
B.
Bird feathers
C.
Cowry shells
D.
Hematite pebbles
Question #10
What type of trade was most profitable for the French?
A.
tobacco
B.
corn
C.
fur
D.
sugar
Question #11
According to Columbus, the Natives he encountered had few weapons and nothing as sophisticated as the swords or javelins produced in Europe
A.
TRUE
B.
FALSE
Question #12
The biggest challenge of administering to a colony was communication due to the distance and the time it took for communication to/from the mother country to the colony
A.
FALSE
B.
TRUE
Question #13
In the New World the power of a Spanish viceroy was reminiscent of a European monarch
A.
FALSE
B.
TRUE
Question #14
Capitulación de Toledo
A.
was an agreement issued by King Charles V of Spain that made Francisco Pizarro governor of Peru
B.
was an agreement issued by King Henry V of England which made Sir Francis Drake governor of Jamestown
C.
was an agreement between England and Spain to establish the boundary between Spanish Florida and English Virginia
D.
was a New World regional boundary agreement between Spain and Portugal
Question #15
Like the Spanish and the Portuguese, the French and the Dutch were primarily concerned with establishing colonial settlements in the New World
A.
TRUE
B.
FALSE
Question #16
The first explorer to reach Brazil and claim it for the throne of Portugal was:
A.
Jacques Cartier
B.
Ferdinand Magellan
C.
Pedro Cabral
D.
Christopher Columbus
Question #17
La Noche Triste
A.
The Spanish term for the night the Inca slaughtered many Spanish forces at Cajamarca
B.
The name of the treaty that ended hostilities between the Spanish and the Aztec
C.
The agreement between the Portuguese and the natives of Brazil that established Portuguese dominance
D.
The Spanish term for the night the Aztecs sacrificed Spanish captives to Huitzilopochtli
Question #18
New World Portuguese who owned both a plantation and a sugar mill were called senhores de engenho or "lords of the mill"
A.
TRUE
B.
FALSE
Question #19
Some historians described the social and economic system of the Inca as an early form of
A.
Democracy
B.
Facism
C.
Communism
D.
Socialism
Question #20
Which of the following European diseases was responsible for the greatest number of Amerindian deaths in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries?
A.
Bubonic Plague
B.
Influenza
C.
Measles
D.
Smallpox
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