Conquest of the Americas — Quiz

Question 1

How did the encomienda system function in the Spanish colonies?

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It was a slavery system that did not allow the enslaved to be sold off the land.

Question 2

What was the most significant result of the Spanish colonization of Central and South America?

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Spain became rich by stealing the wealth of the American colonies.

Question 3

When a nation conquers and settles another country for its own benefit, this practice is called

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colonization.

Question 4

Arranged from greatest privileges to fewest privileges, which is the correct order of the Spanish class system?

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peninsulares, criollos, mestizos, Indigenous peoples, and enslaved persons

Question 5

Moctezuma II ruled over

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the Aztecs as king near the beginning of the sixteenth century.

Question 6

Why did the Spanish government establish the encomienda system in the Spanish colonies?

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to set up a labor supply

Question 7

Atahualpa was the leader of the

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Inca Empire.

Question 8

The Aztecs controlled the most powerful empire in

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Mexico.

Question 9

Which leader was imprisoned by Cortés?

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Moctezuma II

Question 10

Which is true regarding Moctezuma II?

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He invited Cortés into the city of Tenochtitlán.

Conquest of the Americas — Quiz Answers