1-Weekly Summary Review 3

What country sponsored Christopher Columbus?

• Spain
• England
• Italy
• Portugal

What is the benefit of the ship in this picture?

• It allowed explorers to be able to sail into the wind
• It always pointed North
• It could travel faster than all other ships
• It had more cargo room

What is the name of the tool that allowed explorers to determine their position north and south?

• Astrolabe
• Magnetic compass
• Caravel
• navigator's level

What was the primary killer of Natvie Americans during the Age of Exploration?

• Diseasese
• Foreign plants in their forests
• Warfare
• Poverty

What is the significance of the Columbian Exchange? 

• It brought many new ways of life to the Old and New Worlds
• The plants brought to the Old World didn't survive there
• Many Native Americans would move to Europe for a better way of life
• Native Americans became very wealthy off the trade with Europeans

First to sail around the southern tip of Africa 

• Francisco Pizarro 
• Prince Henry the Naviagtor
• Sir Francis Drake 
• Bartolomeu Dias 

Mother countries growing wealthy via controlled trade with colonies 

• trade 
• stealing 
• colonies 
• Mercantilism 

A Portugese sailor who was the first European to sail around southern Africa, Cape of Good Hope, to the Indian Ocean.

• Vasco de Gama
• Cortes
• Mercantilism
• Magellan

He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.

• Vasco de Gama
• Donald Trump
• Cortes
• Christopher Columbus

The global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred during the European colonization of the Americas.

• Columbian Exchange
• Middle Passage
• Capitalism
• Colonization