1. MAPPING GLOBAL FRONTIERS, TO 1585

Quiz for Solo Analysis Document 1.4 Theodor de Bry, Engraving of the Black Legend, 1598

Quiz for Solo Analysis Document 1.4: Theodor de Bry, Engraving of the Black Legend, 1598

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. Which of the following describes the content of the image?

The Spanish dealt out severe punishments to natives who resisted their authority.

The Spanish rounded up natives and forced them into slavery.

The Natives frequently resisted the Spanish through violent insurrection.

The Natives who converted to Christianity and assimilated were accepted by the Spanish.

2. What might the inclusion of the Indian woman symbolize?

The innocence of the Indians

Female natives were warriors.

Natives resorted to witchcraft as a defense.

The Spanish did not torture Native American women.

3. What does the term “The Black Legend” reveal about the perspective of the events depicted and the artist’s perspective on the events?

The image criticizes Spanish brutality.

The image addresses the conversion of the natives.

The image depicts the actions of black Spaniards in the New World.

The image focuses on the role of slaves in the fight against natives.

4. How might this image affect the perception by other colonies of Spanish interactions and encounters with Native Americans?

It could encourage more conflict between the Spanish and Indians in other colonies.

It could lead to open warfare between the Spaniards and empires who protected natives.

It could unite Native Americans against the Spanish.

It could unite the Spanish with other colonizing nations against the natives.

5. Why might the Indians be depicted naked?

De Bry did not know what they wore

To indicate the savagery of the natives

So the viewer would know who were native and who were Spanish

To depict them as subhuman or animalistic

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