Age of Exploration

The voyage of Magellan was the first to do what?

• travel around the horn of Africa
• circumnavigate the globe
• bring enslaved Africans to Europe
• reach the Americas

How were the Spanish conquistadors able to conquer the New World?

• They prayed for the Native Americans.
• They became friends and traded goods with the Native Americans.
• They used advanced weapons to take control of the Native Americans.
• They paid them gold to work building colonies for them.

The exchange of goods and people between Europe, Africa, and the Americas is the ________________?

• Triangular Trade
• Mercantilism
• Capitalism
• Columbian Exchange

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The Middle Passage was_______________?

• The exchange of goods, ideas, and diseases from the New World to Europe.
• The transport of Africans to the Americas by boat across the Atlantic ocean.
• Trading goods among three people.
• The transfer of cash crops to the Americas.

Which of the following was NOT an effect of the slave trade on African society?

• Increased tribal warfare.
• Population decline, leading to a loss of workers.
• Families and communities were torn apart.
• Brought wealth to ALL African people.

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How did the discovery and colonization of the New World lead to increased trade?

• It strengthened the Feudal system.

• Colonies provided raw materials/natural resources and new markets to trade with.

• Colonies discouraged international trade.

• It strengthened relations with Native Americans.

Mother Country sought to dominate trade with the baby country and build up supplies of gold and other valuable resources. Which term best describes this?

• Communism

• Feudalism

• Mercantilism

• Capitalism

Who was responsible for establishing Spain's claims in the New World?

• Columbo
• Dias
• Cabral
• Columbus

What technology was most responsible for allowing Europeans to conquer and colonize the New World?

• compass
• caravel
• gunpowder
• astrolabe

Why was there a demand for slaves in the New World?

• There weren't enough Europeans to get the work done.
• Some colonies needed slave labor to make a profit.
• Native Americans resisted enslavement and ran away.
• All of these are correct