The Global Age: Europe, the Americas, and Africa Test

Chapter 16
Multiple Choice:
1. The New Laws of the Indies 1542:
a. created the encomienda system
b. forbid the enslavement of Native Americans
c. created the governing body over the Spanish colonies
d. implemented arranged marriages in the villages
2. The Sapa Inca
a. had absolute power
b. was the chief religious leader
c. owned all lands in the empire
d. all of the above
3. What is the correct social order of the encomienda system
b.
a.

Creoles
Peninsualres
Mestizos &
Mulattos
Labor
Labor &
Mestizos

Peninsualres
Mestizos &
Mulattos
Labor
Creoles

Mulattos
Creoles
Peninsualres
c.

4. What
was
the Trans-Atlantic slave trade 500 years ago?
a. England
b. Spain
c. Portugal
d. The West Indies

d.

Peninsualres
Creoles
Mestizos &
Mulattos
Labor
the country that started

5. The Spanish brought over which of the following religions to the Americas?
a. Catholicism
b. Polytheism
c. Baptist

d. Eastern Orthodox
6. How was commerce handled in the Spanish colonies?
a. Colonies were free to import and export with who they pleased
b. Spain handled all aspects of the colony economy
c. There were strict laws restricting colony trading
d. Both b & c
True or False: Mark A for True Mark B for False
7. Slaves were the most important item of African trade
8. Atahualpa was the king of Inca Empire
9. By the 1800s a total of 2,000 slaves had reached the Americas through the slave trade
10. The Council of Indies ruled in name of the King in the Spanish colonies
11. Wives of the Sapa Inca sometimes ruled over the empire in his absence
12. Spanish colonists were not influenced by African and Native American cultures
13. Both the Aztecs and Incas performed sacrifices
Matching: (one of the terms may not be used)
A. Azetecs
B. Tainos
C. Montzuma
D. Cortes
E. Pizarro
14. Tenochtitlan was the capital of this empire
15. These were the Natives that Columbus first encountered
16. Conquered the Aztec empire
17. Founded the West Indies
18. Conquered the Inca empire
19. Captured Atahualpa and held him for ransom

F. Columbus

Multiple Choice:
20. What items were mainly traded in exchange for slaves?
a. Weapons, gunpowder
b. Fur
c. Manufactured products
d. None of the above
21. Bartolome Las Casas urged Spanish settlers to import workers from Africa, as a result
Native American workers became known as:
a. Viceroys
b. Peons
c. Tainos
d. Conquistadors

22. The great road system in the Inca empire allowed for
a. armies to move rapidly
b. news to travel via runners
c. for trade among villages to flourish

d. all of the above

23. Which statement is a reason why African slaves were better than Native American slaves
according to the colonists?
a. They already knew how to farm
b. They are more obedient
c. They already had immunity to many European diseases
d. They could speak Spanish
24. Incan communities were referred to as?
a. Chavin
b. Ayllus
c. Audiencias
d. Coyas

On the blank lines provided write one of the main trade items going to that country

Europe

The
Americas

Africa

Fill in the bank:

King of the Aztec empire ____________________
The voyage of the African slaves to the Americas is referred to as __________________
This country dominated control over the Americas throughout this time period ______________
Both the Aztec and Incan empires demonstrated this type of religious view _________________

Short Answer:
What were the effects of the Spanish conquest of the Americas? How are these effects evident in
the Spanish colonies? Provide at least three examples to support your claim.
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