reminder: Conquest-Era Quiz: Last Day (Tim Brown, US)

JE: Just a reminder that the deadline for Tim Brown’s Conquest-Era Americas Quiz is today at 10 PM Eastern Standard Time (US). Answers are coming in, but no one has “hit” all four questions yet. Remember: twelve “Pax et Lux” twisty-pens go to the winner!

1. Name the five largest pre-Columbian populations of the Americas.
2. What was the estimated population of the Western Hemisphere before Columbus?
3. How many descendants of the hemisphere’s pre-Columbian peoples still speak a native language as their mother tongue?
4. In 1492, which was the capital of a major empire, Madrid or Mexico City (Tenochtitlan?)

Good luck! When responding, remember that the Honor System applies–no books, Wikipedia, or collective entries.