Exploration and Colonization

The Age of Exploration was a direct result of all of the following except? 

• Desire for more products from Asia
• To avoid higher prices
• Muslims controlling the Silk Road
• Encomienda

Advances and inventions from the __________________ resulted in European voyages of discovery.  

• Reign of Terror
• Scientific Revolution
• French Revolution
• Aztecs

What type of ship made the voyages of discovery possible? 

• caravel
• steamship
• sail boat
• motor boat

What were the Europeans looking for when exploring Africa? 

• Silk Road
• cinnamon and spices
• gold and other riches
• trade routes

Who was the first European to find an all-water route to Asia by sailing around the Cape of Good Hope?

• Marco Polo
• Vasco da Gama
• Magellan
• Christopher Columbus

Encomienda was a system that allow Spanish colonists to do what?

• Print the bible in German
• Trade cinnamon with colonists
• Travel the Silk Road safely
• Demand labor from Native Americans

The exchange of goods between the Americas and Europe was called?

• Columbian Exchange
• Silk Road
• Treaty of Tordesillas
• Conquistador

All of the following were the 3 G's of exploration except?

• Glory
• Gold
• Galleon
• God

Which word means, "a home country uses colonies to obtain raw materials"?

• Treaty of Tordesillas
• Missionary
• Conquistador
• Mercantilism

Native Americans were forced to provide labor for which group of people?

• Europeans
• Portuguese
• Aztecs
• Romans