Question

a. owning a large supply of gold and silver to demonstrate prosperity.
b. owning large pieces of land to demonstrate world dominance.
c. the establishment of trade enterprises owned and dominated by the merchant class.
d. the establishment of colonies dominated by trade instead of monarchial rule.

1. what was the middle passage?

a. the piece of land in egypt, eventually known as the suez canal that connected the mediterranean and the red seas.
b. the piece of land in panama, eventually known as the panama canal that connected the pacific and the atlantic oceans.
c. the forced voyage of native americans across the atlantic ocean to africa.
d. the forced voyage of enslaved africans across the atlantic ocean to the americas.

1. what was the encomienda?

a. a large agricultural estate.
b. a labor system the spanish developed to draft native peoples to work.
c. landowners forced natives to pay taxes and provide labor for protection and catholicism.
d. labor reforms issued by the catholic church responding to inhuman conditions on plantations.

1. peninsulares were....

a. a person of mixed european and native american descent.
b. a person of mixed european and african descent.
c. a person born in the americas of european descent.
d. a person born in southwestern europe.

Explanation:

Question 22

The Middle Passage refers to the brutal, forced journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas as part of the triangular trade system.

Question 23

The encomienda was a labor system used by the Spanish in their American colonies, where Spanish colonists were granted the right to extract labor and tribute from Indigenous peoples, in exchange for supposed "protection" and religious instruction.

Question 24

Peninsulares were Spanish-born individuals who lived in the Americas during the colonial period; they were part of the highest social class in the Spanish colonial caste system.

Answer:

1. D. The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
2. B. A labor system the Spanish developed to draft native peoples to work.
3. C. A person born in the Americas of European descent.