Topic 2 Age of Exploration Test Review

dominant economic theory of the time that said colonies bring wealth to the mother country

• mercantilism
• imperialism
• empire
• divine right

extending a country's power by taking over other countries

• imperialism
• colonization
• boyars
• empires

In 1513, Spanish adventurer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached the Pacific Ocean by

• traveling overland through Panama.
• traveling overland through Mexico.
• sailing around the tip of South America.
• sailing through the Philippine Islands.

The conquistador who added the lands of the present-day countries of Peru, Ecuador, and Chile to the Spanish empire was

• Olaudah Equiano.
• Hernán Cortés.
• Francisco Pizarro.
• Doña Marina.

At the top of Spanish colonial society were the

• creoles.
• peninsulares.
• mestizos.
• mulattoes.

In Spanish colonial society, creoles were

• people of Native American and European descent.
• native-born descendants of Spanish settlers.
• people born in Spain who were living in the Americas.
• people of African and European descent.

Which foods were first introduced to the Americas by Europeans through the Columbian Exchange?

• rice and peppers
• tomatoes and pumpkins
• wheat and grapes
• corn and potatoes

Europeans sought new trade routes so that they could

• travel along the Silk Road
• reach their American colonies faster.
• avoid exposure to the Black Death.
• gain direct access to Asia. 

The voyage to Calicut by Vasco da Gama soon led to the creation of a vast trading empire for

• Spain.
• Italy.
• Portugal.
• the Netherlands.

How did Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias seek a sea route to Asia in 1460?

• He explored the coast of North America.
• He explored the coast of Central America.
• He rounded the southern tip of Africa.
• He rounded the southern tip of South America.