Author Question: The massive flow of silver bullion from the Americas to Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth ... (Read 53 times)

K@ · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

After spending 70 years working to convert the Pueblo people, Franciscan friars

A) managed to graft a veneer of Catholicism over native culture.
B) succeeded in converting the Pueblo leaders, but not the general population.
C) converted most members of the population to Christianity.
D) concluded that their mission was hopeless.

Question 2

How did the Pueblo native people benefit from Spanish arrival?

A) They obtained Spanish military protection against enemy Apaches.
B) They had access to grain during times of drought.
C) They had access to mission livestock.
D) All of the above.

Question 3

In his travels through the Gulf of Mexico region, Spanish explorer de Soto

A) failed to conquer the people he encountered.
B) enslaved Indians to serve as pack animals.
C) witnessed the ravages of European diseases on native people.
D) All of the above.

Question 4

The consequences of sugar production in the New World included

A) colonizing Brazil.
B) revolutionizing European tastes.
C) stimulating the transport of millions of African slaves.
D) All of the above.

Question 5

The massive flow of silver bullion from the Americas to Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

A) increased prevailing wage rates in Europe.
B) delayed further exploration of America.
C) triggered a century of inflationary pressures.
D) hampered capitalist modes of production.