6.02 (S1)

Many new luxury items were brought from the Americas to the Europeans, including...

• cacao beans, sugarcane, silver, indigo, cochineal

• marble, lapis lazuli, salt, exotic animals

• grapes, olives, horses, plants, sand

• steel weapons & armor

Indigo was used as a pigment dye for clothing and other textiles.

• True

• False

What is cochineal?

• a green dye obtained from dried tree leaves

• a purple dye obtained from fruit

• a yellow dye obtained flower petals

• a red dye obtained from the dried bodies of cochineal insects

Which of the following was NOT a responsibility of a viceroy?

• Make the king richer.

• Ensure native people were treated well.

• Protected the king's lands.

• Enforce the laws.

The Spanish king allowed their South American colonies to govern themselves.

• True

• False

Which of the following does NOT represent native people under the encomienda system.

• Free according to law, but still forced to work the land.

• Able to do as they wanted with their homes and land.

• Often discriminated against.

• Had no real rights.

They journey to Spanish colonies to try and convert the native people to Catholicism.

• Friars & Jesuits

• Luther & Calvin

• Conquistadors and Explorers

• Cortez and Diaz

Which of the following does NOT relate to Catholic friars (priests) in South America?

• Studied the beliefs of native people in order to relate them to Christianity.

• Learned local languages.

• Protested against poor treatment of native people.

• Made sure to preserve & protect local culture & beliefs.

Encomienda can best be described as...

• a way Spanish demanded labor from the native Americans.

• a form of mercantilism.

• a small island in the Caribean.

• a system that protected & supported native Americans.

This was the subject of Las Casa's book, A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies.

• How the American continents became well known.

• To bring attention to mistreat of native Americans.

• To promote further exploration.

• To publicize the the alarming rate of deforestation.