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| 8413865629 | How was the commercial experience of the Portuguese extended to the Americas? | The Portuguese experience in Africa and their involvement in slave trading was extended to the Americas | 0 | |
| 8413865630 | The grants of Indians to individual Spaniards as a labor system were called | Encomiendas | 1 | |
| 8413865631 | How did the Caribbean cities differ from those of Europe | American cities were laid out in a grid plan | 2 | |
| 8413865632 | What are some of the advantages that the Spanish had over the Indians | Epidemic disease weakened the Indians, use of firearms and steel weapons, rivalries and use of horses | 3 | |
| 8413865633 | What accounted for the majority of the population loss suffered by Native Americans after the European arrival? | Epidemic diseases | 4 | |
| 8413865634 | The tremendous decline of the Indian population in Mexico was matched by the rapid increase in what Colombian exchange item | European livestock | 5 | |
| 8413865635 | Why were the encomiendas discontinued by the 1620s | The Spanish crown did not want to see the growth of a new nobility and the decline of the Indian population made them less attractive | 6 | |
| 8413865636 | How would you describe the nature of the economy in Spanish America | Many engaged in agriculture, but the Spanish commercial system was organized around the mining economy | 7 | |
| 8413865637 | Why was the discovery of mercury in Peru critical to the colonial economy | Mercury was indispensable to the extraction of silver from ore-bearing rock. | 8 | |
| 8413865638 | In what way did the importation of American bullion negatively affect the Spanish economy | The arrival of American treasure contributed to a sharp rise in prices and a general inflation | 9 | |
| 8413865639 | The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 divided the world into spheres of influence belonging to what two nations | Portugal and Spain | 10 | |
| 8413865640 | What was introduced by the Catholic church within the Americas? | Universities, baroque churches, establishing missions and monasteries | 11 | |
| 8413865641 | What was the major difference between the Spanish and Portuguese empires (location of colonies) | Unlike the Spanish empire that was almost exclusively America, the Portuguese empire included colonies and outposts in Asia and Africa as well as Brazil | 12 | |
| 8413865642 | What conditions undercut the position of the Brazilian sugar plantation economy? | Competition from English, French and Dutch plantation colonies in the Caribbean led to rising prices for slaves and falling prices for sugar | 13 | |
| 8413865643 | What was the negative impact of the discover of gold on Portugal? | Portugal failed to develop internal industries because the supply of gold allowed the Portuguese to purchase manufactured goods from other European countries | 14 | |
| 8413865644 | What was the impact of the 18th century reforms on slavery in Brazil | Brazil remained as profoundly based on slavery in the late 18th century as it had ever been | 15 |
