Exploration Quiz

What trade began during the Age of Exploration?

• Atlantic Slave Trade
• Trans-Saharan Salt Trade
• Silk Road Routes
• Mediterranean Trade Routes

Which was an immediate impact of the European ‘Age of Exploration’? (7-1.1)

• Britain controlled the western part of Africa.
• For a short time, the Aztec Empire ruled the world.
• Islamic culture spread throughout Asia and North America.
• European economic, political, and social influence spread throughout the Americas

What developments enabled Europeans to explore North and South America?

• Technological developments such as the astrolabe, caravel, and magnetic compass
• The discovery of Beringia
• The increased demand for African slaves
• Prince Magellan's School for Sailors

Which of the following best describes the Columbian Exchange?

• Explorers shipped stolen wheat and barley to Europe.
• A successful trade route between the Europe and the Americas.
• New plants and animals were exchanged between Europe and the Americas as well as deadly diseases.
• Columbus discovered new animals in the Americas and wrote to Europe about them.

 The trade routes between Europe, Africa, and the New World became known as TRIANGULAR Trade.  The horrific conditions and time spent on the ships that carried slaves from Africa to the New World became known as the _______________  ________________.

• Global Exchange
• Colonial Trek
• Middle Passage
• Overseas Highway

an area under the full or partial political control of a distant country and occupied by settlers from that country

• Colony

• Exploration

• Mercantilism

• Economy

Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain.

• Missionaries
• Crusaders
• Glory seekers
• Conquistadors

What are the 3 G's of Exploration

• God, Guns, Glory
• God, Glory, Goods
• Golf, God, Glory
• Gold, God, Glory

How did diseases impact the New World?

• They didn't
• They wiped out 75-90% of the Europeans
• They wiped out 75-90% of the native people
• They helped the natives beat the Spanish

This system was developed by the Spanish and was used to control the newly conquered peoples of Central and South America by enslaving them. This resulted in the death of many Native Americans and the increase in the use of African Slaves in the New World.

• Parcel System
• Cortez System
• Encomienda System
• Pizarro System