Unit 5 Review

Which explorer, sailing for Portugal, aimed to sail around Africa to gain access to the Asian spice trade?

• Vasco DaGama

• Christopher Columbus

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Ferdinand Magellan

After failing to find a northwest passage to Asia through Canada, who is founded Quebec?

• Vasco DaGama

• Samuel de Champlain

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus

What was a reason that the Spanish conquistadors would take missionaries (Jesuits) with them to the Americas?

• To help the Spaniards hold religious services

• To perform weddings between Spanish soldiers and native women

• To convert the native peoples to Christianity

• To teach the Spanish soldiers about Christianity

Who circumnavigated the earth by ship from Spain and back again, proving it was not flat?

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus

• Samuel de Champlain

• Vasco DaGama

Who established direct trade with India while bypassing the Italian and Muslim merchants that controlled the overland trade routes?

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Vasco DaGama

• Christopher Columbus

• Prince Henry the Navigator

Sailing for Spain, which explorer searched for a shorter route to India by heading West through the Atlantic, ultimately landing in the Caribbean?

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Vasco DaGama

• Samuel de Champlain

• Christopher Columbus

The men largely responsible for Spain's conquest of the Americas were known as

• Encomendieros

• Conquistadors

• Coureurs de Bois

Why did Europeans want to find a direct sea route to Asia in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries?

• to cut Italian and Muslim merchants out by avoiding the overland trade route

• to introduce new spices to Muslims

• to spread Christianity to the east

How did The Crusades contribute to the Age of Exploration?

• Desire to explore sea routes found during the Crusades

• Europeans were introduced to Asian spices during the Crusade

• Desire to spread Islam by Europeans after the Crusades

What was Francisco Pizarro responsible for?

• Conquering the Mayans

• Conquering the Aztecs

• Conquering the Inca