Spanish and Portuguese Influence in Latin America

Maintaining early colonial industries in the Americas, as well as roads, buildings, and other infrastructure, would not have been possible without which factor?

• The opportunity for indigenous populations to grow rich

• The labor provided by Africans who had been enslaved

• The willingness of European laborers to work long hours for little to no pay

• The commitment of Europeans to treat indigenous populations with respect

The presence of Spanish and Portuguese colonists in the New World led to which of the following religious developments?

• the spread of Protestantism

• the spread of Judaism

• the spread of Animism

• the spread of Catholicism

As a result of European imperialism, which of the following are the primary languages spoken in Latin America?

• Italian and French

• Spanish and Dutch

• Spanish and Portuguese

• Italian and German

What led to the increase in the transatlantic slave trade in the fifteenth (15th) century?

• Europeans sought to replace the indigenous people forced to work as slaves after many were killed by diseases

• Europeans needed trading partners because the indigenous people would not trade with settlers in the Americas

• Europeans wanted to quickly grow their colonial populations in order to provide better defense against attacks

• Europeans discovered new resources in the Americas that were in high demand in many African nations

What was a major consequence of European colonization of South America in the sixteenth (16th) and seventeenth (17th) centuries?

• Explorers returned to Europe with deadly diseases

• New World plants destroyed European ecosystems

• The transatlantic slave trade rapidly grew in volume

• Many world empires went bankrupt and collapsed