World History Multiple Choice Test

Chapter 19 Early Latin America

Multiple Choice
1.

Which of the following was a NOT characteristic of Iberian society?
a.
b.

Absence of slaveholding traditions

c.

Emphasis on nobility

d.

Emphasis on patriarchal ideals

e.
2.

Heavy urbanization

Patriarchal families

How was the commercial experience of the Portuguese extended to the Americas?
a.

b.

The Portuguese were responsible for the use of galleys in the Atlantic passage

c.

The Portuguese experience in Africa and their involvement in slave trading was extended to the Americas

d.

The Portuguese introduction of tobacco estate agriculture into the Caribbean was a significant factor in American colonization

e.
3.

The Portuguese were familiar with the routes to the Far East that resulted din the circumnavigation of the globe

The Portuguese began commercial trade after the Spanish

Where in the Americas did the Spanish create the models that were applied throughout their possessions in the New World?
a.
b.

Peru

c.

Brazil

d.

The Caribbean

e.
4.

Mexico

California

The first Spanish colony in the New World was established on
a.
b.

Cuba

c.

Puerto Rico

d.

The Antilles

e.
5.

Hispaniola

Matagorda

How did Caribbean cities differ from those of Europe?
a.

American cities were laid out in a grid pan

b.

American cities lacked churches

c.
d.

There were no Caribbean cities

e.
6.

There was an absence of commerce in American cities

They were built near water

The grants of Indians to individual Spaniards as a labor system were called
a.
b.

Consulados

c.

Encomiendas

d.

Audiencias

e.

7.

Obrajes

Alcaldes

What group of Indians supplied agricultural labor for the Spaniards in the Caribbean
a.
b.

Lakota

c.

Unami

d.

Taino

e.

8.

Aztec

Arawak

The Dominican friar Bartolome de Las Casas, a conquistador turned priest
a.
b.