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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 Aztec innovation in Mexico City is still visited by tourists today?
(a) The pyramids of Cairo.
(b) The floating gardens.
(c) The great sundial.
(d) The golden mask.

2. Though the Indians of Latin American had a population of 70 million before foreign invasion, how many remained after 150 years?
(a) None.
(b) 50 million.
(c) 3.5 million.
(d) 15 million.

3. In which country did Emilian Zapata introduce radical agrarian reform?
(a) Northern Brazil.
(b) Western Peru.
(c) Central Honduras.
(d) Southen Mexico.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Especially in Guatemala, what is the structure of the labor force visibly identified with?

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

3. Where did Columbus think he had landed, even during his third voyage?

4. If slaves arrived in the colony and were too ill to work, what happened to them?

5. What year was Artigas's agrarian reform--"free land, free man," instituted?

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