Chapter 05 Quiz for Exploitation, Inequality, and Resistance

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. Voyages from Iberia to the New World were longer than the return trips.

true correct incorrect

false correct incorrect

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. The Portuguese had an advantage over the Spanish in terms of communication with their colonies in the Americas in that

Brazil could be reached more quickly than Mexico or Panama from Europe correct incorrect

the major Portuguese cities in the New World were on the eastern coast correct incorrect

Brazil could be reached easily from Africa correct incorrect

Portugal maintained more regular mail service between Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro correct incorrect

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. The administrative offices and structures established by the Spanish by the 1580s remained largely unchanged until the 18th century.

true correct incorrect

false correct incorrect

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. The Castilian empire in the Indies contained the two viceroyalties of

New Granada and Chile correct incorrect

Mexico and Peru correct incorrect

New Spain and New Granada correct incorrect

Peru and New Spain correct incorrect

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. The Council of the Indies, which oversaw the Crown's interests in the New World, was modeled on

the Council of Spain correct incorrect

the Council of Aragon correct incorrect

the Council of Portugal correct incorrect

the Council of Castile correct incorrect

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. Spanish Viceroys in the New World were obligated to immediately obey and execute any directive they received from the Crown.

true correct incorrect

false correct incorrect

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. The tribunals that operated within each viceroyalty were called

oidores correct incorrect

audiencias correct incorrect

mayors correct incorrect

corregidores correct incorrect

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. Radicados were

men born outside the New World who moved there permanently correct incorrect

men born in the New World who relocated to Europe as adults correct incorrect

native sons of the New World correct incorrect

indigenous men who were accepted into positions within the Spanish administration correct incorrect

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. Spanish cities in the New World were typically built around a central core called a

picota correct incorrect

plaza correct incorrect

traza correct incorrect

playa correct incorrect

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. By 1580, across Spanish America there were _____ towns and cities.

30 correct incorrect

75 correct incorrect

125 correct incorrect

225 correct incorrect

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. All adult males were eligible for election or appointment to cities' ruling councils.

true correct incorrect

false correct incorrect

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. The Spanish Crown attempted to establish segregated neighborhoods and villages for the indigenous population, called

ejidos correct incorrect

escribanos correct incorrect

barrios correct incorrect

vecinos correct incorrect

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. In 1606, Philip III cracked down on the practice of selling administrative offices, banning it in most areas of the Indies.

true correct incorrect

false correct incorrect

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. After the residents of Quito angrily protested that Philip III's decision to impose sales tax, the monarch

suspended the city's right to elect local magistrates correct incorrect

required the city to pay a penalty of 25,000 pesos correct incorrect

revoked all official appointments correct incorrect

recalled the city's governor correct incorrect

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. The pre-contact population of Tenochtitlan was

75,000 correct incorrect

200,000 correct incorrect

350,000 correct incorrect

500,000 correct incorrect

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. Positions on the town council in native villages were in such high demand, they soon adopted the Iberian practice of selling the offices.

true correct incorrect

false correct incorrect

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. Members of the Portuguese high court of Bahia came from

Portuguese nobility correct incorrect

wealthy families who could afford to buy the offices correct incorrect

the indigenous population correct incorrect

modest families of commoners correct incorrect