Quiz sobre o Sistema Colonial Português

What was a central feature of the Portuguese colonial system in the Americas?

• Economy based on hunting and gathering.

• Sugar plantation system.

• Gold mining economy.

• Exclusive indigenous trade.

• Self-sufficient economy.

The colonial pact between Brazil and Portugal stipulated that:

• Brazil should produce manufactured goods and Portugal would consume them.

• Brazil exported primary products and imported Portuguese manufactured goods.

• Portugal depended on Brazil for agricultural products.

• Both countries had independent economies.

• There was free trade between them.

The sugar economy in colonial Brazil was primarily focused on:

• Sugar production for internal consumption.

• Export to Europe.

• Gold mining.

• Subsistence family farming.

• Trade with Asia.

The plantation system in the Brazilian Northeast was characterized by:

• Small family farms.

• Large farms focused on monoculture, especially sugar.

• Diversification of agricultural crops.

• Free indigenous labor, with encouragement of European immigration.

• Economy based on hunting wild animals.

The enslavement of indigenous people was initially justified by:

• The lack of African slaves.

• Ease of control and local knowledge.

• An official legislation that promoted indigenous slavery.

• The 'Treaty of Tordesillas'.

• Indigenous resistance to religious missions.

With the decline of indigenous slavery, colonizers began to prefer:

• Ancestral free labor.

• Work contracts with Portuguese.

• African slavery.

• Voluntary indigenous labor.

• Work with free European immigrants.

The sugar society in colonial Brazil had a structure composed of:

• Nobility, bourgeoisie, free workers, and slaves.

• An egalitarian society.

• Only slaves and farmers.

• A society based on small indigenous communities.

• An urban and industrialized society.

Cunhadismo in colonial Brazilian society was:

• A land exchange system.

• A practice of matrimonial and social alliances.

O cunhadismo na sociedade colonial brasileira era:

• A system of land exchange.

• A practice of matrimonial and social alliances between families.

• A form of slavery of young slaves.

• An agricultural technique.

• An indigenous religious ritual.

A principal vantagem do sistema de plantation para os colonizadores foi:

• Economic diversification.

• Large-scale production for export.

• Reduction of slave labor force.

• Commercial relations with various powers.

• Encouragement of European immigration.