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Age of Exploration

Authored by Clarissa Doughtie

History

7th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following is NOT one of the three main reasons that Europeans started exploring and traveling to new lands? 

God
Glory
Gold 
Goodness

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who were Spanish conquerors who traveled to America and defeated natives using firearms, swords, determination, skill, diseases, and horses? 

Conquistadors
Pirates
Pilgrims
Indians

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and materials between the Americas and Eurasia, which resulted in a better economy for the East and a rapidly decreasing population for the West, due to the diseases? 

The Transcontinental Exchange
The Columbian Exchange
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The New York Exchange

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A settlement of people who live in a new territory, away from their home country, but linked to them by government or trade; they played a large role in mercantilism

colony
village
crown
city

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A theory of the 17th century that stated that the more bullion (gold and silver) a country has, the better its prosperity; nations tried to create a balance of trade to bring in more gold and silver.

Mercantilism
Capitalism
Communism
Fascism

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Large agricultural estates established on Brazil's coast and the islands of the Caribbeans in the 1500s, to grow sugarcane, by way of slave labor.

Factories
Plantations
Fields
Farms

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A trade route that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas; Europeans brought manufactured guns, cloths, and other goods to Africa to trade the natives for slaves; the enslaved Africans were brought to the West and sold; Europeans brought tobacco, molasses, sugar, and cotton back to Europe.

Silk Road
Gulf of Mexico
Bermuda Triangle
Triangular Trade

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