Exploration

What killed the MOST Native Americans after the arrival of Europeans in North and South America?

• War
• Disease
• Slavery

A major effect of the Age of Exploration was...

• Most Europeans turned against the idea of slavery
• Native Americans remained enslaved for centuries after the Europeans arrived
• People of African descent lived lives of privilege
• Europeans settled and created colonies in North and South America

Why did the African slave trade begin?

• Native Americans carried a prejudice toward people of African descent.
• Africans voluntarily sold themselves into slavery
• Because the European powers conquered all of Africa
• Europeans needed forced labor in the Americas & couldn't enslave Natives

What statement BEST describes the Triangular Trade?

• The way Native tribes traded for food between one another
• How the printing press spread ideas around the Mediterranean World
• The exchange of slaves and other goods between Europe & the Americas
• Exchange of ideas between India and China

A conquistador would want to...

• Establish a plantation in the new world maintained by African slaves
• Preach the Protestant doctrines of Martin Luther
• Build large Eastern Orthodox Churches
• Conquer the Americas for the glory of Spain and to get rich

With many natives dying of disease, the Europeans looked to which people as a source of forced labor?

• Poor Europeans forced to be indentured servants in the Americas
• Chinese who were offered jobs to come to the Americas
• European settlers who committed crimes were enslaved in large numbers
• Enslaved Africans were brought to the Americas with the Slave Trade

When Spain conquered large amounts of territory in South America...

• the Native people were given equal rights and a good living
• Spanish became the spoken language of S. America
• Spanish settlers turned against their King 
• Spainish settlers began to question the Catholic Faith

The "Three Gs" are identified by historians as...

• Three reasons why Europeans thought slavery was justified
• Three reasons why Absolute Monarchs thought they could do as they pleased
• Three reasons that the Europeans came to the Americas
• Three reasons why cultural diffusion happens in river valleys

Which of the following is NOT one of the "Three G's"

• God 
• Gratitude
• Gold
• Glory

a ship invented by the Portuguese that made it possible to travel long distances

• schooner
• caravel
• lateen
• astrolab