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

2. After gold, what was the next most important product Latin America could produce?
(a) Wheat.
(b) Glass.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Corn.

3. Out of the 70,000 Guatemalans that die each year, how many are children?
(a) 30,000.
(b) 45,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 10,000.

4. Who was Miguel Hidalgo?
(a) He was a Spanish writer who, at great risk to himself, published a treatise on the conqueror's crimes.
(b) He was a Spanish merchant who shamelessly exploited the native people.
(c) He was an Aztec leader who united Indian groups and marched on Mexico City.
(d) He was a Mexican priest who led a rebellion, attempted to regain the Indian's ancient lands and incite social change.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom did Montezuma mistake the invading Europeans?

2. How were the rubber workers in Brazil paid?

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

4. What is expropriation?

5. What resources caused the boom of the Minas Gerais region?

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