Chapter 16 Test

Question 1

What Spanish policy granted land and the Indians living on it to Spanish colonists as a reward?

Answer 1

Encomienda

Question 2

Name three things that led to the Spanish conquering the Indians.

Answer 2

Horses, guns, diseases

Question 3

What object that the Olmec created do most people think of?

Answer 3

Stone heads

Question 4

Where were the Maya located?

Answer 4

Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, Mesoamerica, and central America.

Question 5

What made it possible for the Olmecs and the Mayas to create permanent settlements?

Answer 5

Farming

Question 6

True or False – Did the Mayan make paper.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Who was the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca?

Answer 7

Francisco Pizarro

Question 8

What was Pizarro’s motivation for exploring the Incan Empire?

Answer 8

He wanted to be wealthier

Question 9

Why did the Aztecs in Tenochtitlán need the technologies listed below?

Answer 9

Because they lived on an island.

Question 10

The Aztecs built their capital city on what would become present day ______________.

Answer 10

Mexico City

Question 11

Who was the leader of the Aztecs when the Spanish first arrived in Mexico?

Answer 11

Montezuma

Question 12

The Mayan and Aztec civilizations advanced the development of ____________.

Answer 12

calendars

Question 13

The Aztecs and Incas were defeated by “Conquistadors” - A Conquistador is a _____________________.

Answer 13

Spanish conqueror

Question 14

The Spanish forced labor system in the Americas resulted in ________________________________.

Answer 14

Atrocities against Native Americans

Question 15

True or False – Columbus 1st to sail to america

Answer 15

False

Question 16

What was not a motivating factor for Europeans to explore and colonize the Americas?

Answer 16

Enslave Native Americans and send them to Europe

Question 17

What disease that almost wiped out the entire population of Native Americans in the Americas.

Answer 17

smallpox

Question 18

What was a result of exploration of the Americas?

Answer 18

Violent conflicts

Question 19

How did the earliest humans arrive in the Americas over 10,000 years ago?

Answer 19

Across a land bridge across eurasia to America following animals

Question 20

The first Europeans to make settlements in the Americas were the _________.

Answer 20

Spanish

Question 21

Why were diseases like smallpox especially deadly among the tribes of the Americas?

Answer 21

Native American didn’t heaven immunity to the disease

Question 22

Which statement best describes a result of the encounter between Europeans and native populations of the Americas?

Answer 22

Native Americans’ lives were changed forever by colonization.

Question 23

Where did Columbus think he had landed when he arrived in the Americas?

Answer 23

Asia

Question 24

Which best defines a civilization?

Answer 24

A community that is considered cities, governments, workers, trade, and religion

Question 25

How did the Columbian Exchange affect agriculture in Europe and the Americas?

Answer 25

People on both continents grew new food and animals to trade

Question 26

Mound builders are _________________________,

Answer 26

ruins found in US

Question 27

Which tribe developed a written language & ruins found in Mexico

Answer 27

Olmec

Question 28

Who created works of art, had several social classes, held religious rituals

Answer 28

Mound builders and the Olmec