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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. 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.

2. Who was Aleijadinho?
(a) A Portuguese merchant who exported gold from Brazil.
(b) The governor of Minas Gerais.
(c) One of the greatest artists in Brazil's history, nicknamed "Little Cripple."
(d) A Brazilian slave who worked in the diamond mines.

3. Without its acquisition of Brazilian gold from Portugal, what major conflict would England surely have lost?
(a) The Spanish War.
(b) The Napoleonic War.
(c) The Hundred Years' War.
(d) The American Revolutionary War.

4. What is the most universal health problem in Latin America?
(a) Poor eyesight.
(b) Infectious disease.
(c) Malnutrition.
(d) Cancer.

5. What country basically owns the Central American banana industry?
(a) Portugal.
(b) The USA.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What resource was at the center of the city of Potosi's prosperity?

2. What was the great Aztec capital city?

3. Who usually financed the conquistadors' expeditions?

4. What great innovations did the sugar slave trade directly fund?

5. To what purpose, according to Bernal Diaz del Castillo, did the Spanish come to Mexico?

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