Team 10

• Ponce Moctezuma Axel Joan

• Merchan Vargas Farid
• Bautista de Lira Eduardo Arturo
• Martínez Cárdenas Diego

VI. MOVEMENTS AND SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS THAT HAVE CHANGED HISTORY.

6.1 Discovery and Conquest of America.

EXERCISE
*Answer the following questions choosing the correct option a, b or c.

1.- How many views are there to know the discovery and conquest of America?
a) 1 b) 3 c) 2

2.- Colon opened the way officially and politically to ‘Asia’, but it took the voyages of Americo
VESPUCCI to realize that the continent found was not a part of Asia, but an independent, ‘new’
continent, or two in the stage:
a) Invention b) Extermination c) Discovery

3.- There where two forms of encounter, how was the second encounter?
a) bodies and persons b) political and military c) theoretical and aesthetic

4.- ___________________ is the most violent form of encounter and results in the complete
destruction of the indigenous culture.
a)the conquest b)the encounter c)the colonization

5.- The conquest was based on a divine command; the conquistadores believed that their success
over the indigenous people was a sign from God to affirm this command.
a) the extermination b) the parousia of gods c) the spiritual conquest

6.- Who provided the ideology for dominance and violence over and against the Other?
a) the Spaniard b)the Christian God c)the Holy Church

7.- What do the indigenous realized that made them start fighting the Spaniards?
a) Moctezuma was murdered b)Spaniards were no gods c) sacrifice of human hearts

8.- The age of capitalism rise in the age:

a) the Fifth Sun b) XVIth century c)the Sixth Sun