Chapter 02 Quiz for Exploitation, Inequality, and Resistance

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. The Portuguese exchanged their goods with African traders, receiving in return

horses and riding equipment correct incorrect

gold, slaves, cotton, and pepper correct incorrect

saffron, wine, wheat, and salt correct incorrect

lead, iron, steel, copper, and brass correct incorrect

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. The Portuguese royal family was largely disinterested in exploration and trade.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. São Tomé became a center for the transatlantic slave trade after starting off as a site of

wheat farms correct incorrect

cotton production correct incorrect

gold mines correct incorrect

sugar plantations correct incorrect

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. Portugal's King John II was unwilling to support Columbus's attempt to reach Asia by sailing west because

Bartolomeu Dias had successfully rounded the Cape of Good Hope and established an eastern sailing route correct incorrect

his advisors convinced him Columbus's mission was impossible correct incorrect

he believed the world was flat correct incorrect

Portugal's resources were tied up in efforts to grow the nation's influence in Africa correct incorrect

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. Portugal's resources were tied up in efforts to grow the nation's influence in Africa

Columbus's contract with the Catholic Monarchs granted him _________ of the profits of his voyage. correct incorrect

one percent correct incorrect

five percent correct incorrect

ten percent correct incorrect

twenty percent correct incorrect

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. Ferdinand and Isabel were convinced upon Columbus's return that he had reached Asia.

true correct incorrect

false correct incorrect

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. The Taíno's failed rebellion against Columbus and his men in 1495 was sparked by

the Spaniards' demands for food correct incorrect

the Taíno's anger at the Spanish theft of their land correct incorrect

the Spaniard's demands for women correct incorrect

the Spaniard's demands for gold correct incorrect

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. When Columbus reached Española on his third voyage, he found

that the Taíno had killed the settlers who had remained on the island correct incorrect

that around half the settlers were involved in a revolt against the leadership of his brother, Bartolomé correct incorrect

that the settlers were refusing to live in towns, as the Crown had ordered correct incorrect

that the settlers had integrated into the Taíno community correct incorrect

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. In 1500, Portuguese captain Pedro Alvares Cabral fortuitously spotted Argentina when his ships swung wide around the Cape of Good Hope.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Within five years of Columbus's initial arrival, the Taíno population declined by roughly

ten percent correct incorrect

one third correct incorrect

half correct incorrect

two thirds correct incorrect

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. After receiving reports that the Spaniards were abusing the native people on Española, King Ferdinand issued the Laws of Burgos, intended to protect the Taíno.

true correct incorrect

false correct incorrect

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. The decline in the Taíno population led to

more Spaniards taking Taíno wives correct incorrect

the Laws of Burgos correct incorrect

increased focus on farming, rather than gold mining correct incorrect

the importation of slaves from Africa correct incorrect

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. The pretext used by Spanish settlers for the enslavement of natives captured in raids on other islands and Central America was that

they were cannibals correct incorrect

they were non-Christian correct incorrect

they attacked the Spaniards correct incorrect

they refused to convert to Christianity correct incorrect

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. The governor who arrived to deliver the "Requirement" was

Blasco Núñez de Balboa correct incorrect

Pedro Arias de Avila correct incorrect

Juan Ponce de León correct incorrect

Antonio Montesinos correct incorrect

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. By 1515 Diego de Velázquez, effective administrative head of Cuba, began authorizing expeditions to enslave replacements for the island's disappearing native population.

true correct incorrect

false correct incorrect

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. The high mortality rate of the indigenous population was due to

continual warfare between native people and the Spanish correct incorrect

Spanish efforts to eliminate troublesome populations correct incorrect

the use of encomienda and the introduction of new diseases by the Europeans correct incorrect

internal battles between indigenous groups correct incorrect