Age of Exploration

What European nation profited most from trade with the East in the years directly following the Crusades?

• Italy

• Spain

• France

• England

Which nation did Prince Henry help to take the lead in overseas exploration?

• Italy

• Spain

• Netherlands

• Portugal

Bartolomeu Dias captained the first European ship to sail what route?

• West across the Atlantic Ocean

• Along the West Coast of Africa

• Across the Indian Ocean to India

• Around the southern tip of Africa

What did Vasco da Gama succeed in gaining for Portugal?

• Control of the Spice Islands

• A sea route between Portugal and India

• A sea route between Portugal and China

• Profitable trade with the Philippine Islands

The Line of Demarcation established a boundary between which two regions?

• Portugal & Spain

• Claimed and Unclaimed Land

• New lands Portugal could claim and those Spain could claim

• The part of the world that was under the Pope’s control and the part that was not

What was the main economic activity in New France?

• Finding gold and spices

• Building a fur trade

• Finding religious freedom

• Creating long-term colonial investments

Who conquered the Aztec empire?

• Hernando Cortés

• Francisco Pizarro

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Why did Europeans see Africans as a better a source of labor than Native Americans?

• Africans had complete immunity to all diseases, so they wouldn’t die off

• Africans had no experience in farming, so they wouldn’t try to do things their way

• Africans were strangers in the Americas, so they wouldn’t have allies or places to hide

• Africans were already Christians, so they didn’t have to be converted

What was the purpose of most of the joint-stock companies of the 1500s and 1600s?

• Financing wars in Africa

• Funding colonies in the Americas

• Paying for the building of slave ships

• Funding the digging of gold mines

Where in the Americas did Christopher Columbus land first?

• An island in the Caribbean Sea

• The southern tip of South America

• The coast of what is today Panama

• The eastern coast of North America