Early Exploration and Settlement

What Italian journeyed four years to get to China?

• Francisco Pizarro
• Bartolomeu Dias
• Marco Polo
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Where was Columbus’ intended destination?

• North America
• Africa
• Europe
• Asia

What was the main reason for European exploration of North America?

• find an all water route to Asia
• they were searching for new land because of over population
• they were searching for slaves
• to divide the land for the New World and Old World

What effect did the news of Columbus's voyages have on Europeans?

• They became anxious to sell their goods in the Americas
  
• New diseases were introduced to Europe
• Indian culture was adopted throughout Europe
• Kings wanted to start claiming territory in the Americas

European explorers were sent to the New World for ______.

• gold, spices, and ships
• gold, land, and to convert native people to Christianity
• silver, pearls, and slaves
• slaves, navigators, and cartographers

Which term is defined as "Spanish soldiers who conquered the Aztecs and Incas?"

• Conquistadors
• Northwest Passage
• Ethnocentrism
• Columbian Exhange

What was the primary cause of death for Native Americans?

• Disease
• War
• Slavery
• Food Poisoning

The assembly that allowed colonists to elect representatives to govern is known as what?

• Mayflower Compact
  
• House of Burgesses
  
• Town hall
  
• Confederation Congress

A group of people who settled far from home but kept ties with their home country?

• explorers
• sailors
• colonies
• travelers

He was the conqueror of the Aztec Empire

•  de Gama
• Cortez
• Mageliion
• Pizarro