WITCHCRAFT MIDTERM 2

Q: The Portuguese took a lot of Brazil wood back to Europe. Why did they want this specific item?

A: It was used to make red dye

Q: Give two criticisms of the Inquisition.

A: Guilty until proven innocent, very difficult to defend yourself, all the prosecutions were anonymous(didn't know you were being investigated until they arrested you)

Q: How did Bartelamay Dalescasa describe Spanish colonization

A: Exceptionally cruel, and made them work very long work terms, starved, beaten.

Q: How did Frey Benovious describe native peoples?

A: They are deceived by the devil, and their religious practices were a type of sorcery.

Q: Why was Maria Diarmenta banished?

A: She never came back to show that she could recite her prayers after she failed to do so in the first place.

Q: Why was there gender disparity in New Spain?

A: More men than women came to New Spain.

Q: The repariento system required natives to pay a tax in the form of what?

A: Labor contracts.

Q: What was the economic role of Argentina and Paraguay? (What were their economies focused on?)

A: Livestock

Q: What disease decimated the Taino people of the Caribbean after Columbus arrived?

A: Smallpox

Q: Who was allowed to start an investigation under the rules of the Inquisition?

A: Anyone with a formal accusation

Q: At the end of the Cicomecca War, the Spanish negotiated a peace. What were the terms between the Spanish and the Cicomecca people?

A: The Spanish gave the cicomecca large amounts of goods (and also left them alone

Q: What was the official reason Hernan Cortez and Francisco Pizarro were allowed to explore? (two guys that conquered the Aztec and Inca empires)

A: To establish trading posts

Q: What is the name of the first land labor contract in New Spain?

A: Encomienda

Q: Tenochtitlan was the capital of what empire?

A: Aztec Empire

Q: What were some of the typical punishments of the Inquisition

A: Public embarrassment, banishment, and prayer reciting.

Q: What is the name of the port from which the annual shipment of gold left the new world for Spain.

A: Havana Cuba

Q: Who were the Creole people?

A: Pure-blooded Spanish born in the New World.

Q: Who was the leader of the Pueblo Revolt?

A: Po'pay

Q: Define the Columbian Exchange?

A: the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas (New World) and the Old World (Europe, Africa, and Asia) following Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage.

Q: True or false? Under the rules of the Inquisition, someone is innocent until proven guilty.

A: False

Q: Why were the Spanish so successful in conquering native peoples in the New World?

A: The Spanish targeted leaders, and they had horses and superior weapons.

Q: What is the name of the public declaration anouncement by the Spanish Inquisition that listed heretical beliefs and ordered people to confess or report others suspected of those beliefs.

A: Edict of faith

Q: What is the problem with Mark Simmons ' argument about the Pueblo peoples in the southwest?

A: His sources were flawed.

Q: Did the people of the Andean mountains believe in the devil before the Spanish conquest?

A: No

Q: Before bringing formal accusations about a person during the inquisition, it had to be brought before a group of officials. What was the name of this group?

A: The Qualifiers

Q: How would you describe the social function of the Inquisition in the New World?

A: The Inquisition was used to oppress the Native people.

Q: What was the most common reason for African slaves to be accused of witchcraft?

A: Poison

Q: What is the name of the mine/city that produced over 50% of the world's silver?

A: Potosi, Bolivia

Q: What led to the Cicamecca War?

A: The discovery of silver.

Q: Andre Parez testified about the Tempohuan revolt. What was the reason he said the Natives revolted?

A: It was the devil

Q: Why did the repartimiento system collapse?

A: Too many Natives died.

Q: Which group of people was most vulnerable to witchcraft accusations in New Spain?

A: Native American woman

Q: After smallpox epidemics ripped through the native communities, the Spanish resettled them to new towns. What were these towns called?

A: Pueblos de Indios

Q: Why did Pizarro move the capital of Peru away from Cusco?

A: Cusco was too easy to capture.

Q: Why did native americans believe that European missionaries were witches?

A: They seemed to spread disease and disaster.

Q: How did Pizarro get adahuopla to submit?

A: He tricked him and then attacked him?

Q: True or false? Spanish survivors of the Pueblo revolt were more shocked by the challenge to their power than by native practices related to devil worship.

A: True

Q: What was the result of the accusations made by della denor dominguez?

A: She was not convicted (and the Inquisition scolded her for essentially wasting their time)

Q: What is a hacienda?

A: A plantation

Q: Why did the Spanish encourage intermarrying with Native women?

A: There were not enough Spanish women coming across on the boats.