Age of Exploration Chapter 5

By 1507 the population of the indigenous people on the island of Hispaniola had decreased to _____________ , down from hundreds of thousands.

• a few hundred

• Sixty thousand

• Twenty thousand

• Thirty thousand

What did the Spanish do to solve the problem of labor shortage due to the decreasing population of the indigenous people?

(a)   is the explorer that Pizarro worked with to explore the Isthmus of Panama.

Who named the Pacific Ocean?

• Columbus

• Ms. Tehomilic

• Balboa

• Pizarro

Explorer Bartolome de la Casas became a priest in Hispaniola and peached against the encomienda system. The encomienda is ____________

• a dictator

• a flower

• a structure to live in

• a system of enslavement

True or False: Las Casas wrote a book called The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account which help change the laws regarding the indigenous people.

• True

• False