Confrontation of Cultures: Encounters Between Europeans and Americans

In this quiz, you will find questions related to the Confrontation of Cultures which reflects the encounters between European and the people of America between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Who built roads through mountains from Ecuador to Chile.

German Incas Maya Aztecs

_______ was the science of mapping the universe.

Cosmography Cartography Calligraphy Pictography

Who made Chinampas, artificial islands in Lake Mexico.

Cuatemoc Tupinambas Aztecs Agnocists

Who destroyed the Inca civilization?

German British Spanish French

The civilization which was politically less powerful than the Aztecs in Mexico was?

Arawaks

Caribs

Incas

Mayas

The ruler who ascended the throne after a civil war was?

Atahualpa

Cuatemoc

Montezuma

Manco Capac

The Portuguese would have thought of importing slaves from Africa because?

Slaves were openly sold in Africa

Sugar mills were being estabilished in Brazil

Local natives had abandoned their homes and hearth

Slaves could further be exported to Portugal.

Brazil was discovered by?

Columbus

Pedro Alvares Cabral

Vasco-da-gama

Cortes.

Corrtes could destroy Aztecs empire because?

He was an expert Army Commander.

He bagged help from the Totonacs.

He was supported by artillery.

He was shrewd, manipulator and fraudulent.

Columbus could explore the New world because?

He had got training from a college

He was employed in a ship-making workshop

He was brought up at the shore and from a poor family

He properly used compass and other devices invented till then.

In 1571, the Philippines was conquered by?

Spain

Portugal

Holland

England

When Christopher Columbus reached the islands of Cubanascan, he mistook it for:

Andaman

Australia

Japan

Malaysia

In 1519, the group that was trying to secede from the Aztec rule of king Montezuma was:

Castillo

Malinchista

Tlaxcalans

Totonacs

The first formal Portuguese capital in South America was?

Salvador

Cuba

Bahamas

Bahia/Salvador

The magnetic compass, used in explorations, had been known since:

1377

1378

1379

1380

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Title: Confrontation of Cultures: Encounters Between Europeans and Americans
Questions: 15
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