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

2. How did Asia acquire rubber tree seeds?
(a) Henry Wickham smuggled seeds out of Brazil.
(b) Christopher Columbus took seeds back for Ferdinand and Isabella.
(c) The trees were discovered deep in the forest.
(d) Chinese merchants came to Brazil and took the seeds back.

3. What states, originally belonging to Mexico, did the USA claim?
(a) Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut.
(b) Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky.
(c) Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida.
(d) Texas, California, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada.

4. 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.

5. What analogy does Paul Baran use to explain the division of labor with the arrival of capitalism?
(a) The actor and the audience.
(b) The horseman and the horse.
(c) The mother and the son.
(d) The priest and his congregation.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Haiti, what does the rainbow symbolize?

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

3. From the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century, what peoples were the center of the slave trade?

4. Who was Augusto Cesar Sandino?

5. What country basically owns the Central American banana industry?

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