Age of Exploration TEST

Which of the following was one of the diseases brought to the New World from Europe?

• Flu
• Strep Throat
• Small Pox
• Montezuma's Revenge

Planters of the in Americas began the use of slave labor because.....?

• NA refused to work the land
• Disease had killed many of the NA
• They believed NA weren't capable
• African slaves were less expensive

Which of the following explorers is given credit as the first to circumnavigate the world

• Magellan
• Columbus
• da Gama
• Cabot

What is another word for "conqueror"? 

• conclave 
• champion
• victor
• conquistador

What is an astrolabe? 

• A tool that helped sailors use the sun and stars to find their location. 
• A small, fast ship. 
• A tool that shows which direction is North. 
• None of the above. 

What country sponsored Christopher Columbus?

• Spain
• England
• Italy
• Portugal

Which is not one of the three reasons Europeans explored?

• God
• Gas
• Gold
• Glory

Spanish conquerors of the Americas

• conquistadors
• Aztecs
• Incas
• encomienda

seventeenth-century economic theory that held that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver

• encomienda
• mercantilism
• mita
• Columbian Exchange

exchange of plants, animals, and people between Europe, Asia, and the Americas

• Middle Passage
• Northwest Passage
• Columbian Exchange
• Magellan Exchange