Semester Test Review Units 2 and 3

Which best describes the Columbian Exchange?

• the influx of colonists who arrived in the New World from Europe
• the movement of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Old World and the New World
• the division of the New World between Spain and Portugal
• the development of trade routes between the New World and European nations

Which prompted European exploration during the Age of Discovery?

• intellectual curiosity
• the "mad scramble" for Africa
• search for a land route to China
• Muslim invasion of Spain

Which was not an accomplishment of Galileo Galilei?

• writing the Principia Mathematica
• discovering moons orbiting Jupiter
• confirming that the earth revolves around the sun
• creating a powerful telescope

Which was a cause of the French Revolution?

• Magna Carta
• dictatorship of Napoleon Bonaparte
• Stamp Act
• tax burden on common people

Which is not a reason democracy failed following most Latin American revolutions?

• The people did not speak the same language.
• leaders had very little experience with self-government.
• Military strongmen called caudillos took control of many areas.
• Old class systems prevented true equality.