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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lust for Gold, Lust for Silver.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the great Aztec capital city?
(a) Montezuma.
(b) Quetzalcoatl.
(c) Tenochtitlan.
(d) Virachoca.

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

3. What did the Treaty of Tordesillas accomplish?
(a) It declared war on France for illegal occupation.
(b) It granted protection to the Indians.
(c) It allowed Portugal to teach the Indians religion.
(d) It allowed Portugal to occupy certain Latin American territories.

4. What is expropriation?
(a) It is the separation of the native peoples from the main population.
(b) It is the tithe the Indians are expected to pay the government.
(c) It is the government's practice of usurping the Indians and claiming their lands.
(d) It is the Indian's policies of attacking government outposts relentlessly.

5. Who was Tupac Amaru?
(a) He was a Mayan chief who led the people out of occupied Cuzco.
(b) He was a Spanish general who conquered the natives in Cuzco.
(c) He was a Spanish soldier who defected to the natives.
(d) He was a mestizo chief and a descendant of the Incas who led a rebellion in Cuzco.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What resource is exploited in modern-day Potosi?

3. Who was Aleijadinho?

4. What famous saying was associated with Guanajuato?

5. What rationalization was used by the conquerors who enslaved the native populations?

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