Unit 9 Assessment Review

What was Christopher Columbus looking for when he left Spain in 1492?

• Russia

• New World

• A route to India

• Africa

What explorer was credited as the first to circumnavigate the world?

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Bartholomeu Diaz

• Gunna

Which of the following is known as the time in which new foods, culture, and diseases were spread between the Old World and the New World?

• Neolithic Revolution

• Exploration Expedition

• Columbian Exchange

• Slave Trade

Who captained the first European ship to sail around the tip of Africa known as the Cape of Good Hope in 1488?

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Vasco da Gama

• Bartolomeu Dias

• John Cabot

European expansion was driven by all of the following except

• gold

• god

• glory

• generosity

Vasco da Gama’s discovery of a route to India by sea proved to be

• very profitable for Portugal

• far too expensive to be sailed on a regular basis

• the only time any Portuguese vessel sailed the route

• much longer than the route to India by land

He explored the Indian Ocean until the Chinese government shut down any future exploration.

• Zheng He

• Tokugawa Ieyasu

• Ming Xi

• Mao Zedong

A person of mixed European and Native American birth was known as a:

• Creole

• Mulatto

• Mestizo

• Peninsulare

The Treaty of Tordesillas

• a plot to put an end to the war between Portugal and Spain

• established a line of demarcation between territories controlled by Portugal and those controlled by Spain

• ended the violence between Portuguese and Muslim traders

• made Portuguese the official language of the Americas

A person of mixed African and European birth was known as a:

• Creole

• Mulatto

• Mestizo

• Peninsulare