1450 - 1750 Maritime Empires

Encomienda, hacienda, and mit'a are all examples of...

• Racial categories

• Maritime empires

• Coerced labor systems

• Bureaucratic systems

What do Brazil and the colonies in the Caribbean have in common?

• Cash crop plantations and chattel slavery

• Spanish conquistadors seizing land

• Colonists from Great Britain and France

• Silver mines and native laborers

When missionaries brought Christianity to the American colonies...

• Almost all natives refused to convert

• Most natives converted but syncretized it with old traditions

• Colonial leaders pushed back against the Church's power

• European Christians lost their faith after slaves converted

Which term applies to colonists of pure Spanish heritage who were born in America?

• Peninsulares

• Creoles

• Mestizos

• Mulattoes

In Latin America, racial ideologies included...

• Rigid barriers between black and white

• Dozens of fluid mixed race identities

• High status for pure Native Americans

• Labeling a person black if they had a tiny bit of black ancestry

One DIFFERENCE between the Spanish Empire and the Ottoman Empire is...

• the Ottomans encouraged all kinds of religious mixing, but the Spanish prevented it

• the Ottomans had a powerful military, but the Spanish hadn't mastered gunpowder technology

• the Ottomans used bureaucrats to centralize authority, but the Spanish did not

• the Ottomans tolerated non-Muslims, but the Spanish mostly forced conversion to Christianity

Which of the following was a LAND empire?

• Spain

• France

• Portugal

• Mughal

Which technique of state-building was NOT important for the European maritime empires?

• Bureaucracy

• Travel infrastructure

• Religious justification of power

• Monumental architecture

Which of the following was much MORE common in maritime empires than in Asian land empires?

• Coerced labor

• Taxation

• Gunpowder weapons

• Centralized rule

Which of the following is NOT a way European maritime empires managed their diverse populations?

• Racial categories

• Forced work

• Jizya tax

• Conversion to Christianity