Exploration, Contact and the Columbian Exchange

What was the main motivation for Europeans to explore sea routes to Asia?

• They wanted to steal power from Italy and control trade routes.
• They wanted soil, supremacy and sovereignty.
• The wanted to find shorter routes to Asia.
• They wanted to bypass the Ottomans (muslims) who controled trade routes.

What European countries established colonies in the Americas between 1450 and 1650?

• Portugal, Spain, Russia and England
• Portugal, Russia, England and Greece
• Portugal, Spain, England and Turkey
• Portugal, Spain, England and France

Why did Native American empires collapse?

• The Incan and Mayan Empires were overthrown by the Spanish
• Diseases weakened the empires
• Both are correct
• Neither are correct

For whom were the journals of Christopher Columbus written?

• Himself
• His family
• Historians
• The King and Queen of Spain

What do early maps of the Americas lack?

• Details of the West Coast of the Americas
• Details of the East Coast of the Americas
• Nothing the maps were complete

Whose explorations inspired the creation of the Waldeemuller map of the world?

• Christopher Columbus
• Henry Hudson
• Jacques Cartier
• Amerigo Vespucci

According to the article or articles read on the Columbian Exchange, what was introduced to the Americas that had the most devastating effect on the native peoples?

• Horses
• Disease
• Sheep
• Corn

"Colonialism" is

• a system in which all nations trade fairly.
• a system in which a "mother" country takes control of other counrties or territories.
• a system in which one country models itself after another country.
• a system in which no one country has more power than another.

Which explorer's mission was first to circumnavigate the globe?

• Sir Francis Drake
• Sir Walter Raleigh
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Giovanni Cabota

When did Columbus make landfall in the Americas? 

• 1491
• 1492
• 1493
• 1494