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History
7th
grade
Fast and the Curious: Exploration and Colonization
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- 1. Multiple Choice
What was the main idea behind mercantilism?
Colonies existed to make a profit for their mother country
Colonies were used to house prisoners from the mother country
Colonies were allowed to do whatever they wanted
Colonies were setup to help with overpopulation in the mother country
- 2. Multiple Choice
How did humanism during the Renaissance differ from earlier traditional medieval ideas?
They had an interest in the spiritual life of the people.
They were disinterested in the ideas of ancient Greece and Rome.
They rejected traditional Christian teachings.
They emphasized the importance of individual potential and growth.
- 3. Multiple Choice
During the Renaissance and Reformation, this way of thinking placed emphasis on reason and logic instead of faith and religion.
Humanism
rationalism
spiritualism
excommunication
- 4. Multiple Choice
What was the Catholic Church's response to Martin Luther's 95 Theses?
Excommunication
The Peace of Westphalia
The Counsel of Trent
They ignored it
- 5. Multiple Choice
The official act of expelling or excluding someone from the Christian church and, during the time of the Reformation, keeping them from entering Heaven as well.
Excommunication
Sin
Indulgences
Salvation
- 6. Multiple Choice
What pushed the Europeans to begin the Age of Exploration?
Attempt to prove that the world was round
Search for new trade routes to Asia
Decline of Italy as a center of commerce
Protestant Reformation
- 7. Multiple Choice
All of the conquered colonies or territories of a mother country.
colony
settlement
empire
conquest
- 8. Multiple ChoiceColonizationTraveling to a new territories for the purpose of discoveryPolitical system where policies are created by representatives selected by the peopleState sponsored settlement of people to new territoriesEconomic policy where colonies serve as a source of raw materials to increase the wealth
- 9. Multiple Choice
Globalization brings our world together.
True
False
- 10. Multiple ChoiceGlobalization is _______________:The connecting of countries through changes in bordersThe interdependence of countries over conflict.The process of the world coming together and being more interdependent, due to the increase in technology and sharing.The process of creating maps and globes.
- 11. Multiple ChoiceThe action of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work and making use of and benefiting from natural resourcesExploitationFavoritismEncomiendaMissionaries
- 12. Multiple ChoiceThe Spanish word Conquistadors translates toCapturersConquerorsCaptivesNatives
- 13. Multiple Choice
the state of being owned by another person
slavery
encomiendas
conquest
indentured servitude
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhich answer best describes the Columbian Exchange?Ideas were exchanged between Europe and Americas.The native Americans and Christopher Columbus shared religious ideas.The Eastern and Western Hemispheres exchanged plants, animals, and also diseases.The Old World became the New World.
- 15. Multiple Choice
Which group saw more positive benefits of exploration and colonization?
Europeans
Africans
Native Americans
all groups benefited easily
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following was not a goal of the Conquistadors in traveling to the Americas?to become wealthy by finding goldto gain glory by winning great victoriesto obtain land for themselvesto befriend the American Indians
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