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Age of Exploration TEST
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40 Questions

1. Which of the following was one of the diseases brought to the

New World from Europe?

a) Flu b) Strep Throat

c) Small Pox d) Montezuma's Revenge

2. Planters of the in Americas began the use of slave labor

because.....?

a) NA refused to work the land b) Disease had killed many of the NA

c) They believed NA weren't capable d) African slaves were less expensive

3. Which of the following explorers is given credit as the first to

circumnavigate the world

a) Magellan b) Columbus
c) da Gama d) Cabot
4. What is another word for "conqueror"? 

a) conclave  b) champion

c) victor d) conquistador

5. What is an astrolabe? 

a) A tool that helped sailors use the sun and b) A small, fast ship. 
stars to find their location. 

c) A tool that shows which direction is North.  d) None of the above. 

6. What country sponsored Christopher Columbus?

a) Spain b) England

c) Italy d) Portugal
7. Which is not one of the three reasons Europeans explored?

a) God b) Gas
c) Gold d) Glory

8. Spanish conquerors of the Americas

a) conquistadors b) Aztecs
c) Incas d) encomienda

9. seventeenth-century economic theory that held that the

prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and
silver

a) encomienda b) mercantilism

c) mita d) Columbian Exchange

10. exchange of plants, animals, and people between Europe, Asia,

and the Americas

a) Middle Passage b) Northwest Passage

c) Columbian Exchange d) Magellan Exchange

11. forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean
to the Americas

a) Columbian Exchange b) Middle Passage

c) Mita d) Inquisition

12. The conquistadors' main advantage over the Aztec and Inca
empires was their

a) knowledge of the territory b) vast army size

c) types of weaponry d) superior intelligence

13. The idea that a country gains power by building up their gold
and silver?

a) Capitalism b) Free enterprise

c) Mercantilism d) Columbian Exchange

14. A settlement in a new territory that keeps close ties to the

homeland?

a) Settlement b) Colony

c) Homeland d) Country
15. How did the Columbian Exchange have a negative effect on
the native people of the Americas?

a) Many natives were forced to build houses for b) Many natives starved when Europeans stole
European settlers. their crops.

c) Many natives lost much wealth as Africans d) Many natives died due to exposure to
took their jobs on plantations. European diseases

16. Why did European nations begin colonizing other lands?

a) God, Power, Gold b) Gold, Resources, Fame

c) Glory, Power, Money d) God, Glory, Gold

17.   "Renaissance" refers to a rebirth of 

a) learning and culture. b) classical art.

c) humanism. d) city-states.
18. The exchange of foods, goods, and ideas between the Old
World and the New World in the 1500s is called the _________.

a) Elizabethan Exchange b) Currency Exchange

c) The Age of Discovery d) Colombian Exchange

19.   Which of the following was an example of the the RESULT of

the Treaty of Tordesillas?

a) The Portuguese empire was larger than the b) Spain took control of Brazil
Spanish empire

c) The Spanish empire was bigger than the d) It split Canada and the Americas
Portuguese empire appropriately

20. Which of the following was NOT a reason the early explorers
began to make voyages?

a) To search for gold and riches b) To make friends with the Native Americans

c) To spread their religion d) The explorers want to become famous.

21. Which of the following is a good that was obtained from China
during the Age of Exploration?

a) silk b) iron

c) copper d) precious gems

22. What was the pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa,
and the American continents called?

a) Golden Age b) triangular trade

c) slave trade d) Middle Passage

23. Where did Columbus first take foot in the New World?

a) Florida b) Virginia 

c) Bahamas  d) New York

24. Which explorer is credited with discovering the Fountain of
Youth

a) Magellan b) Cabot

c) de Leon d) de Balboa

25. Which area did John Cabot explore?

a) Newfoundland (coast of Canada) b) Bahamas

c) Pacific Ocean d) St. Lawrence River

26. The term ethnocentric means...

a) The amount of people from ethnic minority b) The idea that all cultures are the same.
living in a country.

c) The idea that one culture is superior to d) The idea that cultures have differences
another.

27. First Englishman to sail around globe

a) Francisco Pizarro  b) Vasco da gama 

c) Sir Francis Drake  d) Bartolomeu Dias

28. A patron of explorers;established navigation school 

a) Hernan Cortez  b) Prince Henry 

c) Bartolomeu Dias  d) Vasco da Gama 

29. Time period during which Europeans explored the world

starting in 1400's 

a) Renaissance b) Reformation 

c) Middle Ages  d) Age of Exploration 

30. The new world was named after which explorer?

a) Amerigo Vespucci b) Christopher Columbus

c) Hernando Cortez d) Francis Coronado

31. What continent were the European explorers searching for
when they unexpectedly found the Americans?

a) Africa b) Asia

c) Australia d) South America

32. "To sail around the world"  = 

a) inculmintation b) circumnavigation

c) push factors d) completion of travel

33. Which of the following items from the Columbian Exchange

had the greatest impact on the American Indians and helped
them the most?

a) Corn b) Gold
c) Horses d) Bananas

34. Spanish explorers learned about potatoes and sent them back
to Europe. Over time, European farmers found potatoes to be
an easy-to-grow, nutritious crop. Potatoes allowed European
populations to increase as people became healthier and better
fed. 
Which of the following is the best main idea of the passage?

a) The Columbian Exchange transformed the b) The Columbian Exchange benefited

way people farmed and ate. American Indians more than Europeans. 

c) The Columbian Exchange had a harmful d) The Columbian Exchange has not had a
impact on the way people farmed and ate.  lasting impact on the way we farm and eat
today. 

35. Why were European diseases such as smallpox and measles

so devastating to the American Indians?

a) The American Indians had no immunity b) The American Indians got sick and lost their
against the diseases. jobs to enslaved Africans. 

c) The American Indians were already weak d) The American Indians were unprepared when
from earlier diseases caught from the the Europeans used the diseases as
Vikings.  weapons of war. 

36. A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease.

a) epidemic b) encomienda

c) missionary d) imperialism
37. What is a caravel?

a) A small, fast ship.  b) A tool that helped sailors use the sun and
stars to find their location. 

c) A tool that shows which direction is North.  d) All of the above. 

38. Why did Europeans begin exploring the world?

a) To conquer new land b) God, Glory, Gold

c) To find a water route to Asia d) To get more spices 

39. A person who agrees to work as a slave for a certain number

of years in exchange for passage to America is known as?

a) Colonist b) Slave

c) Indentured Servant d) Indentured Farmer

40. The desire for spices and other trade goods was a direct cause
of

a) American expansion into Africa and Asia. b) Asian expansion into the Americas and
Europe.

c) African exploration of the Americas, Europe, d) European exploration and colonization of the
and Asia. Americas, Africa, and Asia.
Answer Key
1. c 11. b 21. a 31. b
2. b 12. c 22. b 32. b
3. a 13. c 23. c 33. c
4. d 14. b 24. c 34. a
5. a 15. d 25. a 35. a
6. a 16. d 26. c 36. a
7. b 17. a 27. c 37. a
8. a 18. d 28. b 38. c
9. b 19. a 29. d 39. c
10. c 20. b 30. a 40. d