Please assist in answering the following MCQs 25) The maritime nations whose civilisations impacted the Caribbean in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were all of the following EXCEPT A) German B) Spanish C) Dutch D) French 26) The theory that underlay the search for wealth in the early Caribbean and which motivated the earliest interlopers was known as A) Commerce B) Profit C) Bullionism D) Mercantalism
Please assist in answering the following MCQs
25) The maritime nations whose civilisations impacted the Caribbean in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were all of the following EXCEPT
A) German
B) Spanish
C) Dutch
D) French
26) The theory that underlay the search for wealth in the early Caribbean and which motivated the earliest interlopers was known as
A) Commerce
B) Profit
C) Bullionism
D) Mercantalism
27) The most important value of the Caribbean to the earliest European explorers came from the belief that its location offered
A) Strategic military bases
B) Souls for conversion
C) Trading partners
D) Sources of wealth
28) Manumission when granted to an enslaved person during the period of Caribbean chattel slavery, made that person legally free for the rest of their life.
A) True
B) False
29) During Caribbean chattel slavery the enslaved men, because of their better opportunities for earning money, were able to display a higher manumission rate than their female counterparts
A) (True
B) False
30) During Caribbean chattel slavery many white planters fathered children on the estates with enslaved women. The legal status of these children was primarily determined by which of the following issues?
A) The status of the mother
B) The status of the father
C) The economic position of the estate
D) The Assembly Laws that governed the particular island
31) Gender mattered on Caribbean sugar estates. Even though both men and women were enslaved on the sugar estates, gender differences were still respected as the basis for assigning work duties. In this context women were usually assigned to the 'Great House' and the men were usually assigned to the 'fields'.
A) (True
B) False
32) During the period of Caribbean chattel slavery the work requirements on the estate were serviced by a maximum of how many gangs of labour?
A) One
B) Two
C) Three
D) Four
33) The period of Indian Indentureship offered opportunities for social advancement for many of the earliest immigrants.
A) True
B) False
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