Age of Exploration and Colonization Quiz

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11th Grade
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Erika Loftin
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the Encomienda System?
A religious movement to convert indigenous people to Christianity
A form of government established by the Spanish in the Americas
A caste and labor system used by the Spanish during colonization
A system of trade between European nations and the Americas
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who were the Peninsulares in the Spanish colonies?
Spaniards born in Spain
Enslaved persons brought from Africa and the Caribbean
Native American Indians
Born in New Spain of Spanish parents
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was the main driving force for explorers during the Age of Exploration?
Gold
God
Glory
All of the above
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the Columbian Exchange?
A system of trade between Europe and Asia
A system of trade between Asia and the Americas
A system of trade between Europe and the Americas
A system of trade between Africa and the Americas
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was the process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area called?
Circumnavigation
Colonization
Globalization
Feudalism
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who completed the first circumnavigation of the globe?
Ferdinand Magellan
Hernán Cortés
Francisco Pizarro
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was the region defined by historians as containing central and southern Mexico and Central America called?
United States of America
Mesoamerica
Colombia
Venezuela
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