Age of Exploration

Which group had the highest rank in the social pyramid of colonial Spain?

• Creoles
• Mestizos
• Mullatoes
• Peninsulares

True or False? Peninsulares were people born on the peninsula of Spain and only made up 2% of colonial pop.

• True
• False

Which of the following was NOT a part of the Columbian Exchange?

• Diseases and Plants
• Animals like elephants
• Ideas like Religion
• Medecines derived from plants

What is a conquistador?

• European sailor
• English farmer
• French trapper
• Spanish conqueror

What did Europeans NOT bring over to the Americas?

• Pigs
• Smallpox
• Corn
• Tea

Where did the Aztecs live?

• Peru
• Florida
• Mexico
• Cuba

Where did the Incas live?

• South America (Peru)
• Mexico
• Africa (Ghana)
• Florida

Who did Hernan Cortes conquer?

• Aztec
• Inca
• Mayan 
• Olmec

In the encomienda system, the Spanish "protected" Natives who were in return expected to:

• Convert to Christianity
• Sell their land
• Work or pay taxes
• Fight for the Spanish

The "Middle Passage" referred to

• the creation of the Panama Canal in Central America.
• the transportation of slaves from Africa to the New World.
• Lewis and Clark's expedition into the Louisiana Territory.
• the best route over the Rocky Mountains to get to California.