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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. What was the largest city in the Kingdom of Guatemala?

2. What did the Spanish do to the villages?

3. Which kingdom had the best sugar and climate?

4. How many kingdoms were there in Hispaniola?

5. What did the Spanish gain from killing Paris and his people?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Spanish kill the native people in Cuba? What did some of the native people do to avoid the torture and brutal killings?

2. How did the Spaniards treat the native people that they encountered? Give examples from the book.

3. What happened in the kingdoms of Marien and Maguana? Give examples from the book. What were these kingdoms known for?

4. How did the friars try to intervene with the natives? Was this successful?

5. What did King Bacata agree to do? How did this turn out?

6. Where did Hernando de Soto arrive at? What was his plan?

7. How did Avila treat the people in Nicaragua? Give specific examples from the book.

8. Who was Paris? How did the encounter go between his territory and the Spanish? What happened afterward?

9. What happened to the people of Nicaragua after the Spanish arrived? Why couldn't they escape?

10. Who traveled inland to New Granada? What did he find?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the Spanish conquistadors kill the native people? Describe at least three different methods that the Spanish used. Why do you think they used such brutal measures against the natives?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

If you were the King or Queen of Spain, how would you have reacted to the letters sent to you by the Dominicans and other missionaries describing the abuse of the natives? What would you have done to change the situation? Why do you think the officials did not try to end the abuse?

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