AP European History Chapter 15

In 1498 he sailed around Africa and landed on the west coast of India. He was the first explorer to find a sea route to Asia. 

• Bartolomeu Dias
• Vasco Nunez Balboa
• Hernan Cortes
• Vasco Da Gama

Which European dissented from the views of most Europeans towards Native Americans and became an advocate for better treatment of Indians?

• Hernando de Soto
• Juan Ponce De Leon
• Bartolome de la Casas
• Henry Hudson

In the economies of the Spanish colonies, Indian labor, used in this system to support plantation-based agriculture and extract precious metals and other resources. 

• mercantilism
• crop rotation
• capitalism
• encomienda

The activities of Coronado and other Spanish and Portuguese explorers in the Americas in the 16th century primarily depended on the support of 

• merchants and fur traders
• the Catholic Church
• the monarchs
• enslaved Europeans

Which of the following factors best explains why Native American efforts to unite were rare?

• most tribes were isolated from each other
• Europeans discouraged tribes from uniting
• People had different foods and cultures
• tribes had traditions of independence

In 1521 he captured Tenochtitlan and conquered the Aztec Empire.

• Ponce De Leon
• Hernan Cortes
• Pedro Cabral
• Vasco Nunez Balboa

Which of the following is NOT true of mercantilism?

• economic philosophy that colonies existed to serve the mother country
• founded on the belief that the world's wealth was limited and that one nation's gain was another's loss
• Each nation's goal was to import as many products as possible
• economic activity should be regulated by the government

Who was the Portuguese leader who opened a school for trade and exploration?

• Henry the Navigator
• King Ferdinand
• John Cabot
• Jacques Cartier

Name this Portuguese explorer whose expeditions reached India via Africa 

• Christopher Columbus 
• Vasco Da Gama 
•  Ferdinand Magellan 
• Sir Francis Drake

In 1488 he became the first European Explorer to successfully sail around the southern tip of Africa. 

• Ferdinand Magellan
• Pedro Cabral
• Christopher Columbus
• Bartolomeu Dias