Age of Exploration

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

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

• Conquistadors
• Pirates
• Pilgrims
• Indians

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

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

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

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

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

The part of the triangular trade, where the enslaved Africans are shipped to the New World; many slaves died on the journey, and others died when they reached the West from diseases, so Europeans bought more slaves than needed.

• Middle Passage
• Silk Road
• Oregon Trail
• Transcontinental Railroad

a portable navigational device that measured the distance of the Sun and the stars above the horizon in order to measure latitude

• astrolabe
• compass
• GPS
• satellite 

Portuguese map makers who incorporated information gathered by travelers and explorers in order to make maps more reliable

• geographers
• explorers
• cartographers
• philosophers