Chapter 24&25 Quiz Questions – Flashcards
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By the seventeenth century, the most prominent site of agriculture in Spanish America was the
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hacienda
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Dona Marina was
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a Mexican woman who aided Cortés in his conquest of the Aztecs
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For the Spanish, the greatest attraction of the Americas was
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precious metals
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Hernán Cortés was responsible for the conquest of the
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Aztecs
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In North America, the Europeans initially found a profitable commodity when they bartered for
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furs
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In both Spanish and Portuguese colonies, migrants from Europe known as peninsulares stood at the top of the social hierarchy, followed by criollos, individuals born in the Americas of Iberian parents.
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True
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On the mainland, as in the Caribbean, epidemic disease aided Spanish efforts in the conquest of native American peoples and their lands.
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True
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Plantations created a high demand for
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cheap labor
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Spanish migrants who were born in Europe were known as
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peninsualares
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The British initially made use of Australia
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as a penal colony
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The English colony of Jamestown
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was nearly destroyed due to mass starvation
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The English, French, and Dutch
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were more interested in setting up permanent colonies than were the Spanish
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The Treaty of Tordesillas
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split Central and South America between Spain and Portugal
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The chief Spanish royal administrators in the Americas were
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the viceroys
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The encomenderos were
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spanish settlers
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The first plentiful labor force for North America was
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indentured servants
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The last emperor of the Aztec empire was
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Motecuzoma II
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The term mestizo refers to
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and individual of indigenous and European parentage
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To provide labor for their sugar plantations, the Portuguese
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relied on imported African salves as laborers
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While the Spanish American empire concentrated on the extraction of silver, the Portuguese empire in Brazil depended on the production and export of sugar.
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True
