Review: European Exploration and Settlement

An instrument used to plan a course of travel using the stars

• compass
• cape
• conquistador
• astrolabe

Which of these technological devices helped explorers navigate the seas using the direction of magnetic north?

• pueblo
• astrolabe
• compass
• circumnavigate

What was Christopher Columbus looking on his voyage?

• A faster route to Asia
• People to convert to Christianity
• Slaves
• Donald Trump

What is the Columbian Exchange?

• A trade of culture, foods, ideas, and people
• A store at the mall that sells clothes
• The trade route Columbus took to find silks and spices
• An area where Native Americans practiced planting crops

the Europeans trading furs

• British

• French

• Portuguese

• Spanish

What were the main reasons the Spanish settled in the New World?

• Help spread diseases to Native Americans

• Get rich, spread the Catholic religion, & get fame & glory

• Bring new ideas & technology to the Americas

• Test new shipping across the Atlantic

What is the transfer of plants, animals, people, ideas & diseases between the New World and the New World called?

• European Exploration
• Columbian Exchange
• Trans Atlantic Shipping
• The 3 G's of Exploration

What was the goal of the FIRST European explorers?

• to seal gold
• to find the northwest passage
• to find a water route to Asia
• to stay alive

Which English colony was the first permanent colony?

• Roanoke
• Plymouth
• Massachusetts Bay
• Jamestown

The Native American population of Mexico in 1492 has been estimated at 25 million; the population in 1608 has been at 1.7 million.  This decrease in population was mainly a result of...

• crop failures brought on by poor weather conditions
• emigration of Native Americans to Europe and Africa
• wars between various native groups
• diseases introduced by the Spanish.