Expansion and Exploration Review

What was the main purpose of Columbus' exploration?

• Searching for gold in South America

• Finding slave labor to bring to Spain

• Searching for a water route to Asia

• Bringing Spanish settlers to start a new colony

Columbus' exploration and discovery was primarily in this area

• South America

• Small islands of the Caribbean Sea

• Rivers of the Northeast United States

• Modern day Mexico and Southwestern U.S.

What was the Columbian Exchange?

• Columbus traded prisoners of war with the Native Americans

• An exchange of gold for the right to live in North America.

• Trading goods for slaves throughout the New World

• The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people across the Atlantic Ocean

Many of the Native Americans died as a result of

• slavery

• spread of disease

• drowning while exploring the Caribbean Sea

• fighting in wars with the Europeans

Who are the conquistadors?

• Spanish soldiers-explorers

• French sailors that were loyal to the king

• slaves obtained from Africa

• Aztec leaders that became friends with the Spanish explorers

Where was the Inca empire located?

• Florida

• Mexico

• Caribbean islands

• South America

The Ottoman Empire was ruled from ___________________. 

• The Atlantic.
• Russia.
• Istanbul, formerly Constantinople.
• The Mediterranean. 

The portion of triangular trade that brought slaves across the atlantic was called

• trail of tears
• The death trail
• The final passage
• the Middle passage

An agreement in 1494 between Spain and Portugal to divide the lands in the western hemisphere.

• Treaty of Tordesillas
• Spanish Armada
• Columbian Exchange
• Mercantilism

Where did Columbus first set foot in the New World?

• Florida
• Virginia 
• Bahamas 
• New York