Quizizz Atlantic Slave Trade and the Spanish Empire

What makes slavery, slavery is that slaves are ________________.

• forbidden

• rewarded

• dehumanized

• restricted

Between 1500 and 1880's roughly how many slaves were forcibly moved from Africa to the Americas.

• 5-6 million

• 10-12 million

• 18-20 million

• 1-2 million

On ships involved in the Atlantic slave trade, slaves typically had how many square feet of space?

• 1

• 10

• 4

• 100

What were examples in “The Atlantic Slave Trade Crash Course World History” of slaves being treated as an economic commodity and not as human beings?

• Slaves were sold at auctions.

• Slaves were packed into the cargo hold of ships like bales of cotton or barrels of molasses.

• Slaves were branded like cattle.

• All these answers are correct.

Which of the following was NOT part of the experience of slaves on sugar plantations in the Caribbean and Brazil?

• Slaves worked 48 hours straight harvesting sugar cane.

• Because slaves married and had children Slaves' birth rate increased faster than the death rate.

• When a slave's hand got caught in machinery processing sugar, the hand was chopped off with a hatchet.

How were the Spanish able to conquer the Aztec and Incan empires despite being vastly outnumbered?

• Both empires were left in chaos because of disease.

• Disease had no effect on these civilizations.

• Diseases wiped out every single native person.

Which of the following best describes the native response to the Spanish requiring one seventh of the young adult male Indians to work in the silver mines?

• Competition for the mining jobs was fierce because wages were so high.

• Working in the mines was so dangerous parents maimed their sons to keep them out of the mines.

• Wages were low but mine work was a key step toward getting a better job.

How did the Spanish use all the silver mined in their American empire?

• to build beautiful cities like Venice

• investments in banking and manufacturing

• wars in Europe

• All these answers are correct.

The Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan resembled the Italian city of Venice because of its 

• importance in ocean going trade

• system of transportation canals

• significance for manufacturing

The Incan kept records with 

• a written language called Quechua

• knotted strings called quipus

• a complex abacus