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.
Who built roads through mountains from Ecuador to Chile.
_______ was the science of mapping the universe.
Who made Chinampas, artificial islands in Lake Mexico.
Who destroyed the Inca civilization?
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