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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many children died while De Las Casas was in Cuba?
2. The area experienced a shortage of what food?
3. What did the Spanish want that the Guatemalans didn't have?
4. What happened to the native people who were not killed?
5. What did the Spanish do to the villages?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who traveled inland to New Granada? What did he find?
2. What did Fray Juan Fernandez de Angulo do?
3. What did Pizzarro do in Tumba to the natives? Give specific details from the book.
4. How did the Spanish treat the individuals along the River Plate? Give specific examples from the book.
5. Did the peace last in the village? Why or why not?
6. Why did de las Casas write his book? What did he hope to accomplish?
7. Why did Guzman head inland? What did he do to the leader of the Michoacans?
8. What happened between Pizzarro and King Atahualpa? How was Atahualpa killed?
9. What reaction did the Spanish receive in Mexico City? What happened in the encounter?
10. Why did the Spanish establish a permanent settlement in Santa Marta? What did the new commander do to the area?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
A number of reports were made about the atrocities committed in the New World. Why do you think nothing was done about it by the king of Spain or by groups like the Council of the Indies? Why do you think they continued to allow the abuses to happen? What were they focused on instead?
Essay Topic 2
What role did the Dominicans play in the New World? How did they try to help the native people? Where they successful? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Who was Montezuma? What did the Spanish do to him and his people? Give specific examples from the book. Why did the Spanish do these things? How did Montezuma and his people react?
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