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EVALUATION Cultural Changes and Castas

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The idea of conquering new territories was to obtain 3 different things:

a)

silver and gold

b)

evangelization

c)

give power to the King and Queen of Spain.

d)

nickel and cooper

2.

What we know today like Mexico, was called _____

a)

New Spain

b)

Spain the great

c)

New Mexico

d)

Mexico - Tenochtitlan

3.

_________________ and __________________ travelled all around the territory founding new cities and changing the landscape.

a)

conquerors and religious orders

b)

kings and queens

c)

Cortés and the Malinche

d)

Juan de Grijalva and Christopher Colombus

4.

The process of taking new territory was called _________

a)

evangelization

b)

behaviorism

c)

colonization

d)

frailes

5.

Religious groups started to teach indigenous people about the ______________.

a)

Catolic religion

b)

frailes

c)

Christiansism

6.

Religious groups started to teach indigenous people about the Christianism, changing the beliefs of ....

a)

adoring only one god into adoring many gods

b)

from adoring many gods into believing only in one.

7.

Some mesoamerican festivities were mixed with the catholic religion, for example, _____________

a)

Halloween

b)

Día de Muertos

c)

Christmas

d)

La Batalla de Puebla

8.

This is an example of how the cultures mixed.

a)

altars

b)

churches

c)

the new religion

d)

Quetzalcoatl

9.

Spanish from Spain suffered modifications in our territory, adopting many words that have their origin in the Nahuatl language and other regional idioms.

One example is

a)

guajolote

b)

acelgas

c)

cabra

d)

gallina

10.

Is a term used to describe the mixed-race individuals in New Spain, resulting from unions of European whites, Mesoamerican people, and African slaves.

a)

evangelization

b)

castas

c)

slaves

11.

Spanish from Spain suffered modifications in our territory, adopting many words that have their origin in the Nahuatl language and other regional idioms.

One example is

a)

jitomate

b)

naranja

c)

toronja

d)

limon

12.

Spanish from Spain suffered modifications in our territory, adopting many words that have their origin in the Nahuatl language and other regional idioms.

One example is

a)

te de limon

b)

lechuga

c)

chile

d)

acelga

13.

Spanish from Spain suffered modifications in our territory, adopting many words that have their origin in the Nahuatl language and other regional idioms.

One example is

a)

chocolate

b)

cocoa

c)

copa cabana

d)

camote

14.

The new cities had a design that included a big church, a central park and straight avenues. They are called ________

a)

comercios

b)

centros

c)

cultural places

d)

caminos nuevos

15.

Term used to describe the mixed-race individuals in New Spain.

a)

resulting from unions of European whites, Mesoamerican people, and African slaves.

b)

that´s how Spaniards called the people living in New Spain.

16.

This racial categories had ________________________________, since racial status was how people were organized in New Spain.

a)

had many problems

b)

legal and social consequences

17.

People were treated and classificated by their race, which also dictated their economic situation and their social one as well.

a)

true

b)

false

18.

There were 5 main social groups back in the time

a)

Slaves

b)

Spaniards

c)

Criollos

d)

Mestizos

e)

Indigenous

19.

The smaller but most privileged group.

They were in charge of the main government positions and in charge of the economic and political control.

a)

Spaniards

b)

Slaves

c)

Indigenous

d)

Criollos

20.

Their parents were Spaniard but they were born in New Spain.

They had lots of privileges but they could not occupy the most important jobs or positions in any area.

a)

Spaniards

b)

Criollos

c)

Mestizos

d)

Indigenous

21.

They were relocated in new tows in order to make the evangelization process easier.

They worked for Spaniard families, as agricultures or craftsmen.

a)

Criollos

b)

Mestizos

c)

Spaniards

d)

Indigenous

22.

Children from Spaniard and Indigenous parents. At first, they were rejected by both groups.

They worked in the mines and agriculture mostly.

a)

Spaniard

b)

Criollos

c)

Slaves

d)

Mestizos

23.

They came from Africa. They arrived in European boats for working as slaves.

They did every kind of job but never received proper payment for it.

a)

Slaves

b)

Criollos

c)

Mestizos

d)

Indigenous