1.5 Quiz

Columbus eventually died in Spain, disappointed he did not reach which country? _______

• China
• Argentina
• Korea
• South Indies

Which area of the Caribbean did the Taino people not inhabit?

• Puerto Rico
• Cuba
• Turks and Caicos
• Trinidad and Tobago

Within the British colonies would emerge a new society- and a new nation- based on the idea of _____ and ______

• representative government, religious tolerance
• monarchy, absolute rule
• serfdom
• self determination, suffrage

Jan 1492, Christopher Columbus proposed a daring plan to the Spanish monarchs King _____ and Queen ______

• Ferdinand, Isabella
• James, Bethany
• Alfonso, Joanna
• Amadeo, Maria

Columbus predicted natives would not be easily converted to Christianity.

• True
• False

Within the Treaty of _____, an imaginary vertical line drawn in the Atlantic to divide the world. The Spanish would claim all lands to the ______ of the line and the Portuguese would claim all lands _______ of the line.

• Tordesillas, West, East
• Tordesillas, East, West
• Versailles, West, East
• Paris, East, West

The Columbian exchange had a massive impact on trade between the Americas and Europe. What was a negative impact that Europeans brought to the New World?

• disease
• high tarrifs
• war
• narcotics

True or False- The European system of colonization was established long before Columbus set sail for Hispaniola

• True
• False

During Columbus's last voyage to the Americas, ironically he almost made it to which Central American country which would later connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?

• Panama
• Guatemala
• New Zealand
• Brazil

Columbus referred to the people he met in the New World as “_______________”

• Los Indios
• Encomienda
• Option 3