Exploration of the new world

What were the chief motives for European expansion?

• Adventure, travel, and war

• Politics, taxes, and war

• God, glory, and gold

• Oil, gold, and coal

Which country took the lead in European exploration?

• Portugal

• The Netherlands

• England

• France

Who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the world?

• Bartholomeu Dias

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Vasco da Gama

Which ruler granted encomienda to the Spanish settlers in

the Americas?

• Louis XII

• Isabella

• Ferdinand

• Henry VI

Which nation controlled most of the eastern seaboard of

North America by the end of the 1600s?

• France

• Spain

• England

• The Netherlands

______were the offspring of Africans and Europeans.

• Creoles

• Peninsulares

• Mestizos

• Mulattoes

Spanish conquerors of the Americas were known

as .

• viceroys

• conquistadors

• peninsulares

• governor-generals

The system allowed authorities to draft natives to

work in silver mines.

• encomienda

• feudal

• mita

• tithe

12. Which of the following is a true statement about colonial

Latin American society?

• It had no class system.

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• It was largely Protestant.

• it had few peasants.

• It was multiracial

15. What caused the most deaths in the Aztec and Inca

populations?

• Combat with the Europeans

• Human sacrifice

• European diseases

• Combat with rival cities