Contact, Colonization, and the Atlantic World Online Quiz Questions

The Mexica Empire had already abandoned Tenochtitlán before the campaign began.

Alliances with communities opposed to Mexica rule helped Cortés.

The Spanish army greatly outnumbered all Indigenous forces in central Mexico.

The Mexica Empire had no established political or military organization.

True

False

Fur trading and Indigenous alliances

Large-scale plantation agriculture based mainly on sugar

Centralized mining administration supported by dense Spanish settlement

Permanent family farming designed to acquire as much Indigenous land as possible

Forming diplomatic or military alliances with European powers

Using colonial courts to pursue legal challenges

Abandoning all local institutions and accepting European rule everywhere

Preserving Indigenous languages or religious practices

True

False

Colonial governments prohibited enslaved labor in plantation regions.

African slavery remained temporary and could not be inherited.

Many English colonies made African slavery hereditary by law.

English colonies relied exclusively on voluntary European migration for labor.

Who created the source and when was it created?

What purpose and audience shaped the source?

Can the source’s claims be accepted without considering perspective or omissions?

Whose voice or evidence is missing from the source?

France conquered New Netherland and renamed New Amsterdam Quebec.

England conquered New Netherland and renamed New Amsterdam New York.

Spain absorbed New Netherland into New Spain and renamed it Havana.

The Haudenosaunee conquered New Netherland and renamed New Amsterdam Albany.

True

False

A system centered primarily on plantation agriculture and hereditary African slavery

A system that relied heavily on fur trading networks and Indigenous alliances

A system focused mainly on silver mining and centralized viceroyalties

A system based chiefly on densely settled family farms and land acquisition

Spanish forces had overwhelmingly larger armies than all Indigenous societies

The Mexica Empire voluntarily transferred its authority to Spain

Some communities opposed Mexica rule and allied with the Spanish

European monarchs had already established effective control over central Mexico

Epidemic disease interacted with warfare, forced labor, displacement, hunger, and social disruption

Indigenous population decline resulted only from voluntary migration to European settlements

European military technology alone caused all demographic losses

The exchange affected crops and animals but did not significantly affect human populations

European agreements immediately created effective control over every territory they named

Imperial claims were limited because Indigenous peoples were excluded and control required resources and cooperation

The agreements were negotiated primarily by Indigenous governments to regulate European settlement

The agreements ended competition among European powers by giving each empire uncontested authority