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1
America was named after what Italian explorer?
Cristobal Colon
Giovanni Cabato
Giovani de Verazzano
Amerigo Vespucci
2
In New Spain, if you were half African and half Indian, you were a....
Zambo
Mullato
Mestizo
Creole
3
A Spanish colonial settlement used by the Church to convert the Indians to Christianity
Pueblo
Mission
Presidio
4
Viking explorer who made it to North America about the year 1000 C.E.
Atahualpa
Cheng Ho
Leif Erikson
Vasco da Gama
5
Christian knights tried to recapture Jerusalem from the Arab Muslims in these religious wars.
The Chinese Civil War
War of the Roses
Roman invasions
The Crusades
6
This word means to go all the way around the world
Circumnavigate
Trans-Atlantic
Precession
Trans-Oceanic
7
The people that lived in the Caribbean Islands were the
Tuscarora
Tlingit
Taino
Inuits
8
Africans began to capture and sell other Africans to the European slave traders
False
We can't be sure
True
9
The Laws of the Indies set up a strict social system in New Spain. At the top were the...
Mestizos
Creoles
Peninsulares
Indians
10
In Spanish American colonies, people born in Spain were called...
Indians
Mestizos
Creoles
Peninsulares
11
King of the Aztecs
Atahualpa
Sultan Mehmet
Moctezuma
Mansa Musa
12
In the Spanish colonies, people born in America of Spanish parents were called...
Creoles
Mestizos
Peninsulares
Slaves
13
Portuguese sailor who made it all the way to Calicut, India
Ferdinand Magellen
Vasco da Gama
Cristobal Colon
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
14
In New Spain, people of mixed Indian/Spanish blood were called...
Peninsulares
Mestizos
Mulattos
Creoles
15
The Spanish priests tried to destroy any traces of....
Traditional Indian religion
Indian farming techniques
horses in the countryside
The fountain of youth
16
Name of the Inca Emperor was...
Atalhualpa
Moctezuma
17
The Spanish empire in America was called...
New Spain
New Columbia
New France
New England
18
Spanish Conquistadors enslaved the Native Americans under this economic system
Encomienda system
Silk Road
Barter system
Free enterprise system
19
Portuguese sailor who made it all the way to the Cape of Good Hope, but then turned around
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Vasco da Gama
Bartolomeu Dias
Bartolome de las Casas
20
What ship was researched and developed in the school of Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal?
Caravel
Longship
Galley
Galleon
21
The Inca Empire was located on the west coast of South America in what is today...
Panama
Brazil
Peru
Mexico
22
Italian Explorer who thought you could reach the east by sailing west
Cristobal Colon
Bartolomeu Dias
Bartolome de las Casas
Christopher Columbus
23
These people were used as replacement slaves because they already had immunities to diseases
Africans
English
Vikings
Italians
24
Because of their isolation, Indians had none of these in their bodies to fight infections
Immunities
Parasites
Germs
25
Spanish abuse of the Indians led to the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, when 400 Spaniards were killed.
True
Wait, what?
False
Neither false nor true
26
Capital city of the Aztecs
El Dorado
Tenochtitlan
Teotihuacan
Chichin Itza
27
What was the religious institution that was dominant in western Europe during the middle ages?
Southern Baptist Church
Nation of Islam
Roman Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
28
Ferdinand Magellan died trying to do what? Surviving crewmen succeeded after he died.
Find the fountain of youth
Discover America
Circumnavigate the globe
29
Cities from Cairo, Egypt to Xianyang, China traded luxury goods along this trade route
The Silk Road
The Royal Road
The Roman Road
Trans-Sahara
30
In New Spain, people of mixed African and Spanish blood were called....
Peninsulares
Mulatto
Mestizos
Creoles
31
Spanish Conquistadors wanted to conquer the Indians for
Faith, Hope and Charity
Peace, Love and Harmony
"God, Gold and Glory"
32
How many Africans were kidnapped between 1500 and 1800?
10 to 12 million
Over one million
100,000 to 300,000
400 million or more
33
New Spain's society was divided into social classes based on...
your military service to your lord
Birthplace and racial characteristics
The job you had to do
Money and power
34
Mansa Musa was the wealthy Muslim King of what West African trading kingdom?
Ming China
Mombasa
Manitoba
Mali
35
Mines in Mexico and Peru made Spain rich with....
Gold and Silver
Spices and Silks
Saphires and Rubies
Copper and Iron
36
In medieval times, what mineral was as valuable as gold in West Africa?
Pepper
Salt
Gold
Iron
37
Brazil was a colony of what European nation?
Portugal
England
France
Spain
38
This Conquistador was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean
Vasco da Gama
Cristobal Colon
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Bartolome de las Casas
39
As a result of the spread of Catholic missions in the borderlands....
The Indians were allowed to leave the missions
Spanish language and culture spread with them
The Indians sold their babies to the Spanish
The Aztecs sacrificed Spanish priests
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The exchange of plants, animals, people, dieases and ideas between old world and new world
Post Exchange
Amerigo's Exchange
Columbian Exchange
Stock market exchange
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Spanish colonists adopted Indian foods such as...
fish, whales and seals
honey, oats and chickens
Sugar, beef and turnips
Corn, beans and squash
42
This disease killed millions of Native Americans
Ebola
Small Pox
AIDS
43
"The Indians were totally deprived of their freedom, even beasts enjoy more freedom..."
Bartolomeu Dias
Vasco da Gama
Bartolome de las Casas
Cristobal Colon
