Chapter 7 Quiz

Match the following!

• Encomienda System

• Treated the Aztecs cruelly and deceptively

• Strait

• Allowed Spaniards to take land from natives and force them to work as slaves.

• Mexico City

• Cortes destroyed Tenochtitlan and replaced it with this.

• Cortes

• Narrow water passage connecting two bodies of water.

• Magellan

• Named the Pacific Ocean

What occurred and killed many people during the siege at Tenochtitlan?

Montezuma was killed by......?

• Natural causes

• Cortes

• His people

• Spaniards

Wo established the first school of navigation in Europe?

T/F: Balboa and his men were the first Europeans to see the Pacific Ocean.

What is a rapid spread of a disease?

Match the following!

• International Date Line

• Affects people traveling around the world.

• Cabral

• Claimed land for Portugal which later became Brazil.

• da Gama

• First to discover an all water route to the East.

• Pizarro

• Ships that were narrow, light, fast and could travel in shallow water.

• Caravels

• Forced the encomienda system on the natives.

What is a the disease caused by a lack of fresh fruits and vegetables?

T/F: Age is a period of time measured by a special feature or way of living.

Before the Pacific Ocean was named, Balboa named it......?