Age of Exploration Chapter 5

By 1507 the population of the indigenous people on the island of Hispaniola had decreased to _____________ , down from hundreds of thousands.

• a few hundred

• Sixty thousand

• Twenty thousand

• Thirty thousand

What did the Spanish do to solve the problem of labor shortage due to the decreasing population of the indigenous people?

______________ is the explorer that Pizarro worked with to explore the Isthmus of Panama.

Who named the Pacific Ocean?

• Columbus

• Ms. Tehomilic

• Balboa

• Pizarro

Explorer Bartolome de la Casas became a priest in Hispaniola and peached against the encomienda system. The encomienda is ____________

• a dictator

• a flower

• a structure to live in

• a system of enslavement

True or False: Las Casas wrote a book called The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account which help change the laws regarding the indigenous people.

• True

• False