Expansion and Exploration

Which tool was NOT used to help navigate the seas?

• astrolabe
• sextant
• compass
• protractor

European expansion was driven by

• wealth, religion and ambition.
• religion, fear, political ambition.
• fear, wealth, religion.
• fear, religion, politics.

The Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 gave Spain control of almost all of 

• the Americas.
• Asia.
• Africa.
• Europe.

To circumnavigate the globe means

• one complete trip around the world.
• explore one section of the world.
• starting at one point and ending  at point across the globe.
• navigating using the positions of stars and planets.

The first explorer to reach the Cape of Good Hope on the Southern tip of Africa was

• Vasco de Gama.

• Bartholomeu Dias.

• Christopher Columbos.

• Ferdinand Megallan.

The Aztec rulers of Mexico fought against the forces of

• Bartholomeu Dias.

• Pedro Cabral.

• Hernan Cortes.

• Francisco Pizarro.

Some Native American helped Cortés because they

• resented paying tribute to Aztec emperor Montezuma II.

• had been converted to Christianity.

• resented paying tribute to the Inca emperor Atahualpa.

• had intermarried with Spanish explorers.

An example of a conquistador is

• Christopher Columbus.

• Francisco Pizarro.

• Malinche.

• Prince Henry.

One effect of the Columbian Exchange was

• llamas began to be used as beasts of burden.

• the triangular trade became less profitable.

• Native Americans diseases destroyed European populations.

• the exchange of foods and animals had a dramatic impact on later societies.

French settlers in Canada were mainly

• farmers.

• slaveholders.

• fur traders.

• conquistadors.