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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through King Sugar and Other Agricultural Monarchs.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Columbus think he had landed, even during his third voyage?
(a) He thought he was off the coast of Africa.
(b) He thought he was off the coast of Hawaii.
(c) He thought he was off the coast of Asia.
(d) He thought he was off the coast of Venezuela.

2. To what purpose, according to Bernal Diaz del Castillo, did the Spanish come to Mexico?
(a) To build houses and start a new civilization.
(b) To serve God and His Majesty and also to get riches.
(c) To learn of the native peoples of the strange new land.
(d) To bring the natives European literature and guns.

3. What great mathematical principle did the Mayans discover before any other people in history?
(a) General relativity.
(b) The concept of zero.
(c) Pi.
(d) The circumference of the earth.

4. What great innovations did the sugar slave trade directly fund?
(a) Britain's Great Western Railway.
(b) The invention of the automobile.
(c) The Spanish trade route.
(d) The Aztec Temples.

5. Who usually financed the conquistadors' expeditions?
(a) Businessmen or the conquistadors themselves.
(b) The state or government.
(c) The native peoples of the New World.
(d) England's monarch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Spanish city was reconquered in 1492 under the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella?

2. Who was Miguel Hidalgo?

3. What did Columbus witness on his first voyage, while passing Tenerife?

4. How did American interests in Venezuelan crude oil attempt to derail the Brazilian crude oil economy?

5. Without its acquisition of Brazilian gold from Portugal, what major conflict would England surely have lost?

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