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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through he Invisible Sources of Power.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the 1890s, Chile's dependence on Great Britain was comparable to what other colonized country?
(a) India.
(b) China.
(c) Morocco.
(d) Australia.

2. Where did Columbus think he had landed, even during his third voyage?
(a) He thought he was off the coast of Hawaii.
(b) He thought he was off the coast of Africa.
(c) He thought he was off the coast of Asia.
(d) He thought he was off the coast of Venezuela.

3. What are the environmental problems with many of Latin America's cash crops?
(a) Coffee, sugarcane, and cotton are primarily consumed by the farmers.
(b) Many of the cash crops are eaten by animals.
(c) Many of the cash crops are failing and leaving large swaths of empty land.
(d) Coffee, sugarcane, and cotton all require mass deforestation.

4. From the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century, what peoples were the center of the slave trade?
(a) Africans.
(b) Irish.
(c) Australians.
(d) Chinese.

5. Because of a deal with the USA, in how many years may Brazil run out of manganese for its own steel industry?
(a) 100.
(b) 25.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What great mathematical principle did the Mayans discover before any other people in history?

3. What did Andre Gunder Frank discover upon analyzing the history of Latin America's "metropolis-satellite" relationships?

4. Without its acquisition of Brazilian gold from Portugal, what major conflict would England surely have lost?

5. How much silver was retained in the Spanish economy from 1540-1550?

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