Age of Exploration Notes/Questions

Multiple Select

What were the main motives for European exploration as listed in the image?

• Crusades

• Renaissance

• Reformation

• Technological advances

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the astrolabe in navigation?

• To measure the incline position of celestial bodies

• To determine the speed of ships

• To calculate the distance traveled

• To create maps

Multiple Choice

Who initiated the first voyages along the Atlantic coast of Africa during the 15th century?

• Bartholomew Diaz

• Vasco da Gama

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Christopher Columbus

Multiple Choice

What were the significant contributions of Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan to Spanish exploration?

• Discovery of the Americas

• Circumnavigation of the Earth

• Proving the Earth is flat

• Died in the Americas

Multiple Choice

What were the years of Columbus' voyages as shown on the map?

• 1492, 1493, 1498, 1502-1504

• 1492, 1494, 1498, 1500

• 1492, 1495, 1498, 1501

• 1492, 1493, 1497, 1504

Multiple Choice

What are the people from the Netherlands known as?

• Dutch

• Belgian

• German

• French

Multiple Choice

The status of being a citizen of a particular country

• heritage

• customs

• nationality

• culture

Multiple Choice

What was the role of the Dutch East India Company in Asia during the period after the Dutch lost their colonies in North America?

• It was less successful than the British East India Company

• It was more successful in Asia

• It was dissolved in the 1700s

• It had no impact on trade

Multiple Choice

What are the effects of exploration on mercantilism, early capitalism, and the ideas of Adam Smith?

• Increased trade

• Decreased wealth

• Limited exploration

• Reduced competition

Multiple Choice

What economic principle is illustrated in the image below?

• Captialism

• Feudalism

• Socialism

• Mercantilism

Multiple Choice

What was the value of gold and silver from Spanish America in the year 1616-1620?

• 10 million pesos

• 20 million pesos

• 30 million pesos

• 35 million pesos

Multiple Select

What were the four key factors that resulted in the Commercial Revolution?

• Development of European overseas colonies

• New ocean trade routes

• Population growth

• Inflation

Multiple Choice

What problems are associated with Joint Stock Companies?

• Financial Bubbles

• High profits

• Low risk

• Limited investment

Multiple Choice

Why do you think Native American populations decreased from around 25 million people to around 5 million from the year 1518 to 1548?

• They decided to leave the Americas.

• Increased availability of food sources.

• Peaceful interactions with Europeans.

• The spread of diseases, slavery, and war.

Multiple Choice

Why were the diseases from the Europeans so deadly to the Native Americans?

• These diseases were created to be super diseases.

• The Native Americans had already defeated these diseases and forgot about them.

• They had no medicines or immunity to the diseases

Multiple Choice

What role did slave labor play in sugar production?

• It was not needed

• It was essential

• It was optional

• It was harmful

Multiple Select

What were the main factors that led to the fall of the Aztecs and the Incas?

• Conquistadors

• Smallpox

• New Spain

• Atahualpa

Multiple Choice

Which European empires are represented in the Americas according to the map?

• Spanish

• French

• Dutch

• All of the above

Multiple Select

What are the different classes in the Colonial Class System as represented in the image?

• Peninsulares

• Creoles

• Mestizos

• Mulattos

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences describes the graph?

• The number of enslaved people was always greater than the number of indentured servants.

• The number of indentured servants grew rapidly before they were replaced by enslaved people.

• The number of indentured servants was always greater than the number of enslaved people.

• The number of enslaved people grew rapidly before they were replaced by indentured servants.