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- 1. Multiple Choice
In 1497, who found a water route to Asia by rounding the tip of Africa and landing on India's southwest coast?
Henry the Navigator
Dias
Vasco da Gama
Columbus
- 2. Multiple Choice
What device helped Europeans navigate at sea by using a magnetized needle that points to a coordinate direction?
Steam Engine
Compass
Astrolabe
Rudder
- 3. Multiple ChoiceThe art and science of map making is called:cartographymapographyquiltingmapology
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which navigational device invented by the Portuguese had a rudder, square and triangular sails, several masts, and could be used to travel close to the shore?
Caravel
Astrolabe
Frigate
Compass
- 5. Multiple Choice
Who sponsored Portuguese fleets that sailed along the western coast of Africa?
Prince Henry the Navigator
Queen Isabella
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which was traded from the Old World to the New World?
horses and major diseases
squash, pumpkins, and turkeys
cocoa and horses
cocoa and llamas
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which was traded from the New World to the Old World?
major diseases
horses
potatoes and corn
slaves
- 8. Multiple ChoiceHow did diseases impact the New World?They didn'tThey wiped out 75-90% of the EuropeansThey wiped out 75-90% of the indigenous peopleThey helped the natives beat the Spanish
- 9. Multiple Choice
Conquistadors is a Spanish word meaning:
to entrust
to connect
court
conquerors
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhat was Christopher Columbus' purpose for exploration before discovering the New World?To find a faster and safer trading route to AsiaTo circumnavigate the world in the name of ItalyTo launch a surprise attack the enemies of Spain by seaTo find the city of gold in southern Africa
- 11. Multiple Choice
In 1534, what French navigator sailed inland along the St. Lawrence River and claimed much of eastern Canada for France?
La Salle
Jacques Cartier
Amerigo Vespucci
Magellan
- 12. Multiple Choice
What was the motivation for exploration?
Write a book about it
Gold, God, Glory
Land, food, water
Position in the government
- 13. Multiple Choice
What is mercantilism?
A system where a mother country gains power by exporting more goods than they import.
where colonies trade gold and silver with each other.
A theory that global wars that start over money so countries should avoid it.
Plantation colonies trading slaves for money.
- 14. Multiple Choice
The inhumane voyage of slaves across the Atlantic ocean was called the
End of Days
Middle Passage
Final Destination
End of Freedom
- 15. Multiple Choice
Japan responded to European exploration by introducing what policy?
Mercantilism
Closed Country
Open Country
Free Trade
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