European Exploration

Why is St. Augustine important to the United States?

• That is where Columbus settled.

• It is the oldest city in the United States

• it is Mrs. Kubistal's home town.

• That is where the Silk Road started.

What invention helped sailors know where they were going without seeing the sun or stars?

• The compass

• Gunpowder

• The astrolabe

• The printing press

What was the Columbian Exchange

• the trading of enslaved Africans between Europe and the Bahamas

• Europe sending money and goods to Columbus

• The exchange of animals and goods between Europe and the New World

• The exchange of animals and goods between the New World and China

True or False: European navigators used an astrolabe to measure the size of continents

• true

• false

True or False: The Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the globe?

• true

• false

True or False: The Spanish renamed the Aztec empire "New Spain"?

• true

• false

Someone who buys and sells goods to earn money is called a ...

• merchant

• mission

• caravan

• hacienda

A ________ is an area of land ruled by another country.

• mission

• settlement

• colony

• hacienda

A town created by people in an area where no one has lived before is called a ....

• mission

• hacienda

• settlement

• colony

Why didn’t the Incas fear being conquered by Francisco Pizarro and his troops?

• They lived in places that they felt were safe from attack.

• They had acquired a lot of guns from trading with other explorers.

• They had a natural immunity to the diseases that the Europeans brought with them.

• They managed to kidnap Francisco Pizarro, which caused the Spanish troops to
  stop attacking.