(^80) › STEP 4. Review the Knowledge You Need to Score High
- A is correct because the banning of cannibalism and the “turning away” from idols
referred to in the passage allow one to infer that Cortés intended to impose the laws of
Christianity and Spain on the people of Tenochtitlán. B is incorrect because nothing in
the passage indicates that Cortés intended to exterminate the people of Tenochtitlán.
C is incorrect; despite the reference to “teaching” the people of Tenochtitlán, the pas-
sage makes it clear that Cortés’s primary mission was to rule the people of Tenochtitlán.
D is incorrect because the passage allows one to infer nothing in regard to the worship
practices of the people of Tenochtitlán; rather, the passage gives inferences of the ways
in which Cortés interpreted those practices. - Suggested answer:
Thesis: Spanish colonization changed life in the New World by creating a new agricultural
system and by shifting ownership of both the agricultural and mining sectors away from
local populations.
Paragraph Outline:
I. Spanish colonization created a new agricultural system in which large estates called haci-
endas produced food and leather goods for the mining areas and urban centers of the New
World, and plantations in the West Indies produced sugar for export.
II. In both the mining and agriculture sectors, ownership was in the hands of Spanish-born or
Spanish-descended overlords, while labor was coerced from the native population.Rapid Review
In the fifteenth century, Isabella and Ferdinand used the resources of the newly united
kingdom of Spain to promote overseas exploration. Other European kingdoms followed
suit. This led to an unprecedented era of exploration and discovery in the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries and to the building of a Spanish empire in the New World. In
the eighteenth century, Britain and France came to dominate the lucrative Triangular Trade
Networks that imported valuable raw materials from North America and the Caribbean
to Europe in exchange for the selling of manufactured goods to colonies and for slaves
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