Age of Exploration

Before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors, the INCA, under the rule of MONTEZUMA, ruled much of central Mexico

• True

• False

The exchange of plants and animals between Europe, Africa, and Americas is called the Middle Passage

• True

• False

The southern coast of West Africa became known as the Spice Islands

• True

• False

Early Portuguese explorers sailed south along the coast of Africa, then east to India

• True

• False

Mirroring the social structures of its Spanish and Portuguese conquerors, colonial Latin America allowed only creoles to hold important government positions

• True

• False

In Latin America's multiracial society, the children of Africans and European were called mestizos

• True

• False

Juana Ines de la Cruz wrote

• a government documents that opposed the authority of the king

• the most popular novellas in 16th century Latin America

• poetry and prose and urged that women be educated

• the first concise history of Native Americans

How did Catholic missionaries aid European powers in controlling the lives of Native Americans?

• importing and paying Europeans for labor kept the balance of trade

• growing sugarcane was familiar to Africans

• Spain respected Native Americans and did not want to enslave them

• the natives population was small due to diseases brought from Europe

Not wanting to share its profits, Spain and Portugal kept other nations from trading with Latin America by

• regulating the trade of its colonies

• blockading major ports and harbors

• extracting all available gold from the colonies

• signing trade agreement with competing nations

The Portuguese were the first to explore other lands because they had

• more intelligence

• a rich government

• superior ships

• a stronger desire to spread Christianity