Lesson Y205.2

Y205.2 Encounters and conquest Quiz: OCR History, Unit 2

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The 20 questions

  1. Which 1494 treaty divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal?

    • Treaty of Utrecht
    • Treaty of Alcáçovas
    • Treaty of Zaragoza
    • Treaty of Tordesillas
  2. Who was the first European explorer to reach the southern tip of Africa in 1488?

    • Pedro Álvares Cabral
    • Bartolomeu Dias
    • Vasco da Gama
    • Ferdinand Magellan
  3. Which Portuguese commander led the conquest of Malacca in 1511 and Goa in 1510?

    • Afonso de Albuquerque
    • Francisco de Almeida
    • Pedro Álvares Cabral
    • Vasco da Gama
  4. Which Aztec emperor was captured by Hernán Cortés during the conquest of Mexico?

    • Atahualpa
    • Huascar
    • Moctezuma II
    • Cuauhtémoc
  5. Which Inca ruler was captured and executed by Francisco Pizarro at Cajamarca in 1533?

    • Moctezuma II
    • Atahualpa
    • Manco Inca
    • Huascar
  6. Which Spanish explorer led the first expedition to cross the Isthmus of Panama?

    • Vasco Núñez de Balboa
    • Francisco Coronado
    • Hernando de Soto
    • Pedro Arias Dávila
  7. Who commanded the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe between 1519 and 1522?

    • Christopher Columbus
    • Ferdinand Magellan
    • Bartolomeu Dias
    • Vasco da Gama
  8. Which Portuguese navigator claimed Brazil for Portugal in the year 1500?

    • Pedro Álvares Cabral
    • Vasco da Gama
    • Afonso de Albuquerque
    • Amerigo Vespucci
  9. Which Italian navigator realised South America was a separate continent, giving his name to America?

    • Christopher Columbus
    • Amerigo Vespucci
    • John Cabot
    • Ferdinand Magellan
  10. What system of forced indigenous labour was instituted by the Spanish in the Americas?

    • Asiento system
    • Mita system
    • Encomienda system
    • Hacienda system
  11. What precious metal flooded Europe from Spanish mines in Potosí, driving sixteenth-century inflation?

    • Silver
    • Copper
    • Gold
    • Platinum
  12. Which Portuguese trading post, captured in 1510, became the capital of Portuguese India?

    • Goa
    • Malacca
    • Ormuz
    • Calicut
  13. What term describes the widespread transfer of plants, animals and diseases between Old and New Worlds?

    • Columbian Exchange
    • Triangular Trade
    • Atlantic System
    • Mercantilist Trade
  14. Which deadly disease brought by Europeans was a major factor in devastating indigenous American populations?

    • Malaria
    • Cholera
    • Smallpox
    • Bubonic plague
  15. What royal licence granted by Spain allowed foreign merchants to sell enslaved Africans to Spanish colonies?

    • Consulado
    • Encomienda
    • Casa de Contratación
    • Asiento
  16. Which administrative council was established in Spain in 1524 to manage its empire?

    • Casa de Contratación
    • Council of State
    • Council of the Indies
    • Audencia Real
  17. Which Seville institution managed trade monopolies with the New World?

    • Consulado de Mercaderes
    • Council of Castile
    • Audiencia de Sevilla
    • Casa de Contratación
  18. What was the primary Portuguese colonial export from Brazil during the early sixteenth century?

    • Tobacco
    • Brazilwood
    • Sugar
    • Coffee
  19. Which friar campaigned fiercely against the mistreatment of indigenous American peoples?

    • Francisco de Vitoria
    • Pedro de Gante
    • Bartolomé de las Casas
    • Bernardino de Sahagún
  20. Which Asian city state did Portugal capture in 1511 to control the spice trade strait?

    • Goa
    • Malacca
    • Macau
    • Colombo

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