Chap 20 quiz 📝

Question 1

Who found the “main land” of the Americas?

Answer 1

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 2

What modern day country was also the homeland of the Incas?

Answer 2

Peru

Question 3

Who was the conquistador who defeated the Aztecs?

Answer 3

Hernan Cortes

Question 4

Who was the last native ruler of the Aztecs?

Answer 4

Montezuma II

Question 5

Who was the last native ruler of the incas?

Answer 5

Atahualpa

Question 6

What modern day country was also the homelands of the Aztecs?

Answer 6

Mexico

Question 7

Which of the following was not an early explorer of the Americas? Juan ponce de Léon. Bartolome de las casas. Amerigo Vespucci. Francisco Coronado

Answer 7

Bartolome de las casas-monk

Question 8

Which of the following factors lead to the most deaths of natives in the americas during their interactions with early European colonists, explorers, and settlers? Warfare by European nations. Massacres by European colonists. Diseases such as smallpox. Starvations by lack of food in the americas

Answer 8

Disease such as small pox

Question 9

How many ships were used in Columbus’s first voyage? What did he sought to do?

Answer 9

3 ships. Sought alternative trade route to Asia. Sought gold and other riches

Question 10

What was Columbus on the second voyage? How many ships did he take? What did he sought to do?

Answer 10

Empire builder. Sought to establish an empire for Spain. 17 ships

Question 11

What is colonization?

Answer 11

Lands that are controlled by another

Question 12

Amerigo Vespucci?

Answer 12

America named after him thanks to a German map maker. Sailed down the coast of South America

Question 13

Ferdinand Magellan?

Answer 13

Les first expedition to circumnavigate the world.

Question 14

When did a Spanish conquistador conquer the Aztec empire?

Answer 14

1521

Question 15

When did a Spanish conquistador conquer the Incan empire?

Answer 15

1533

Question 16

How did the last ruler of the Incan empire die?

Answer 16

Was told that If he filled a whole room with gold and silver he would get his empire back. He achieved that but still got strangled

Question 17

What was the encomienda?

Answer 17

Spanish work system. Natives mined, farmed (slaves basically)

Question 18

What was the reconquista?

Answer 18

Spanish culture on the natives. Intermarriage. Mixed babies (Spanish and native)

Question 19

Who was Juan ponce de Leon and what did he do?

Answer 19

Appointed governor of Puerto Rico and Explored Florida for the fountain of youth

Question 20

Who was he and what did he do? : Francisco Vazquez de Coronado

Answer 20

Explored North American southwest states in search for a city of gold. Discovered the Grand Canyon

Question 21

Who were the peninsulares?

Answer 21

Born in Spain or Portugal

Question 22

Who were the Kreils?

Answer 22

Born in America

Question 23

Who was Mestizo?

Answer 23

Both white and native

Question 24

Who were natives?

Answer 24

The natives from America

Question 25

Who was bartolome Dias?

Answer 25

A monk that criticized the actions of Spain towards the natives

Question 26

Who was Popé?

Answer 26

Native leader who led an organized resistance against Spain

Question 27

What was human cost

Answer 27

Spanish killed natives in the worst ways possible. And disease that was even more deadly helped kill

Question 28

What trading city in India was ruled by the French until 1954?

Answer 28

Pondicherry