Which of the following was NOT a reason the early explorers began to make voyages?

To make friends with the Native Americans

The explorers want to become famous.

Spanish explorers learned about potatoes and sent them back to Europe. Over time, European farmers found potatoes to be an easy-to-grow, nutritious crop. Potatoes allowed European populations to increase as people became healthier and better fed. Which of the following is the best main idea of the passage?

The Columbian Exchange transformed the way people farmed and ate.

The Columbian Exchange benefited American Indians more than Europeans.

The Columbian Exchange had a harmful impact on the way people farmed and ate.

The Columbian Exchange has not had a lasting impact on the way we farm and eat today.

Why were European diseases such as smallpox and measles so devastating to the American Indians?

The American Indians had no immunity against the diseases.

The American Indians got sick and lost their jobs to enslaved Africans.

The American Indians were already weak from earlier diseases caught from the Vikings.

The American Indians were unprepared when the Europeans used the diseases as weapons of war.

The desire for spices and other trade goods was a direct cause of

European exploration and colonization of the Americas, Africa, and Asia.

American expansion into Africa and Asia.

Asian expansion into the Americas and Europe.

African exploration of the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following was one of the diseases brought to the New World from Europe?

Flu

Strep Throat

Small Pox

Montezuma's Revenge

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following explorers is given credit as the first to circumnavigate the world

Magellan

Columbus

da Gama

Cabot

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is another word for "conqueror"?

conclave

champion

victor

conquistador

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is an astrolabe?

A tool that helped sailors use the sun and stars to find their location.

A small, fast ship.

A tool that shows which direction is North.

None of the above.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What country sponsored Christopher Columbus?

Spain

England

Italy

Portugal

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which is not one of the three reasons Europeans explored?

God

Gas

Gold

Glory

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Spanish conquerors of the Americas

conquistadors

Aztecs

Incas

encomienda

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Age of Exploration TEST

Which of the following was one of the diseases brought to the New World from Europe?

Which of the following explorers is given credit as the first to circumnavigate the world

What is another word for "conqueror"?

What is an astrolabe?

What country sponsored Christopher Columbus?

Which is not one of the three reasons Europeans explored?

Spanish conquerors of the Americas

seventeenth-century economic theory that held that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver

exchange of plants, animals, people, and ideas between Europe, Asia, and the Americas

forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas

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