European Exploration and Discovery

European Exploration and Discovery

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European Exploration and Discovery

European Exploration and Discovery

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

First European country to enter into direct trade with the Far East and establish colonies was:
Spain
France
Britain
Portugal

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Spanish empire in America was characterized by:
the introduction of a manorial-like system, the encomienda
a large creole class of higher-level colonial government officials
the relatively large white population
its enormous African slave population

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following group benefited from the inflation of the sixteenth century?
landowning nobility
merchants
peasants
all of these groups benefited

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Why did the English, Dutch, and French governments fail to begin colonization of the Americas and direct trade with the Orient until more than 100 years after Columbus discovered America?
their geographical positions put them at a disadvantage for trans-oceanic movement
the northern countries lacked suitable ships and the advanced technology to make long voyages
domestic troubles and religious controversies delayed organized action
Western European bankers refused to loan monarchs money for such ventures

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Spain's expansion in the Americas was made particularly easy by:
the absence of prior civilizations among the native peoples
the impact of imported diseases on the Indian population
Spain's leadership in European banking and commerce
the belief that Europe had much to learn from the religions and customs of other peoples

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) granted Portugal the eastern trade route to the Indies and Brazil; lands to the west of Brazil were given to:
England
Italy
Spain
France

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The technological innovations in maritime technology by the 1500s were important because?
they made it cheaper to sail
they increased the number of slaved needed to sail the ships
they required literate sailors
hey made it possible for Europeans to sail anywhere

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

By the 16th century the center of commercial activity had shifted from the Mediterranean to the:
Atlantic Ocean
Red Sea
Indian Ocean
Baltic Sea

9.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Encomiendas in the Spanish New World were:
local councils of aristocratics who assisted the viceroys
grants permitting owners to take income or labor from land and its inhabitants
special schools set up in the Franciscan missions to educate native Indian children
elected colonial assemblies