I. Choose the right option from the following statements

Question 1.
Columbus could explore the New world because
(a) He had got training from a college
(b) He was employed in a ship-making workshop
(c) He was brought up at the shore and from a poor family
(d) He properly used compass and other devices invented till then.

Answer

Answer: (c) He was brought up at the shore and from a poor family

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Question 2.
Corrtes could destroy Aztecs empire because
(a) He was an expert Army Commander.
(b) He bagged help from the Totonacs.
(c) He was supported by artillery.
(d) He was shrewd, manipulator and fraudulent.

Answer

Answer: (d) He was shrewd, manipulator and fraudulent.

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Question 3.
Brazil was discovered by
(a) Columbus
(b) Pedro Alvares Cabral
(c) Vasco-da-gama
(d) Cortes.

Answer

Answer: (b) Pedro Alvares Cabral

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Question 4.
The Portuguese would have thought of importing slaves from Africa because
(a) Slaves were openly sold in Africa
(b) Sugar mills were being estabilished in Brazil
(c) Local natives had abandoned their homes and hearth
(d) Slaves could further be exported to Portugal.

Answer

Answer: (c) Local natives had abandoned their homes and hearth

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II. Fill in the blanks with suitable words

Question 1.
A temple pertaining to …………… culture is existed in Guatemala. It was built sometime in..eighth century.

Answer

Answer: Mayan

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Question 2.
……………….. is a process which turns waste land in a land proliferating with high yielding crops.

Answer

Answer: Reclamation

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Question 3.
……………….. was a ball court marker with inscribed dates. It pertains to Maya culture.

Answer

Answer: Chiapas

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Question 4.
……………. living in Bahamas were …………….. while living ……………. in Lesser Antilles were …………

Answer

Answer: Arawaks, Human, Caribs, devil

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Question 5.
There was ……………….. economy in the Caribbean region and in Brazil.

Answer

Answer: small subsistence

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Question 6.
Animists are the people wrho prefer …………….

Answer

Answer: idolatry

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Question 7.
We see monarchial Systems based on well-developed agriculture and mining in …………….

Answer

Answer: Caribbean region and in Brazil

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Question 8.
Combating against Protestants gave birth to a society namely …………….. in 1540.

Answer

Answer: Society of Jesus

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Question 9.
There was gold in the mountain streams flowing over ………………..

Answer

Answer: Hispaniola

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Question 10.
Montezuma under influence of fear took Cortes as ……………… of an exiled god.

Answer

Answer: reincarnation

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III. Write “true” or “false” by evaluating the following statements

Question 1.
Pablo Neruda in his “The Heights of Machu Picchu”, a hill top town of Incas culture appreciates the masons, architects, sculptors for excel structures built there.

Answer

Answer: true

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Question 2.
Imago Mundi, a book had not properly guided Columbus in his sea adventures.

Answer

Answer: false

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Question 3.
The Spanish inflicted atrocities on Arawaks, the simple and just people as Bartolome delas Casas, an ascetic states that the Spanish often tested their swords on the naked flesh of the Arawaks.

Answer

Answer: true

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Question 4.
Montezuma, the King of Aztecs empire fought bravely against Cortes of Spain in a battle field.

Answer

Answer: false

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Question 5.
The Spanish had cleaned their hands on gold statues kept inside the tombs.

Answer

Answer: false

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Question 6.
The King of Portugal divided Brazil in ten captaincies.

Answer

Answer: false

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Question 7.
There is no greater boon that acquires a home or family by gobbling unjustly the share of others.

Answer

Answer: false

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Question 8.
Any man who deprives others of their freedom, and being able to restore that freedom, does not do so, is condemned.

Answer

Answer: true

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Question 9.
South America is called Latin America because of Latin spoken there and adopted as court language.

Answer

Answer: false

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Question 10.
Mexico was a city with structures built on the lake. These were built of stones.

Answer

Answer: true.

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IV. Match Column A with exact time line given in B below

Column A	Column B
(i) Pizarro conquers Inca Kingdom	(a) 1522
(ii) Dutch East India Company formed	(b) 1492
(iii) Columbus claims Bahamas Islands	(c) 1500
(iv) Spanish Conquer the Philippines	(d) 1600
(v) British East India company formed.	(e) 1499
(vi) John Carbot, an Englishman, explores North American coast.	(f) 1532
(vii) Magellan encircumbulates around the globe	(g) 1602
(viii) Vasco-da-gama reaches Calicut/Kozhikode.	(h) 1513
(ix) Cabral claims Brazil for Portugal.	(i) 1513
(x) Cortes defeats Aztecs.	(j) 1571
(xi) Balboa crosses Panama Isthmus, sights Pacific Ocean.	(k) 1448
(xii) Amerigo Vespucci sights South American coast	(l) 1497
(xiii) The undiscovered world divided between Portugal and Spain.	(m) 1521

Answer

Answer:

Column A	Column B
(i) Pizarro conquers Inca Kingdom	(f) 1532
(ii) Dutch East India Company formed	(g) 1602
(iii) Columbus claims Bahamas Islands	(b) 1492
(iv) Spanish Conquer the Philippines	(i) 1513
(v) British East India company formed.	(d) 1600
(vi) John Carbot, an Englishman, explores North American coast.	(l) 1497
(vii) Magellan encircumbulates around the globe	(a) 1522
(viii) Vasco-da-gama reaches Calicut/Kozhikode.	(k) 1448
(ix) Cabral claims Brazil for Portugal.	(c) 1500
(x) Cortes defeats Aztecs.	(m) 1521
(xi) Balboa crosses Panama Isthmus, sights Pacific Ocean.	(h) 1513
(xii) Amerigo Vespucci sights South American coast	(e) 1499
(xiii) The undiscovered world divided between Portugal and Spain.	(i) 1513

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