Age of Exploration and Encounter

Age of Exploration and Encounter

10th Grade

15 Qs

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Age of Exploration and Encounter

Age of Exploration and Encounter

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10th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following activities MOST helped the sharing of ideas across long distances in the 1500s?

The foundation of colleges and universities in places like Zimbabwe and Mughal India

The spread of trade languages like Swahili and French Creole.

The conquest of new lands in the Americas by Europeans and in Afro-Eurasia by Gunpowder Empires

Increased trade in the Indian Ocean and on the Silk roads.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In what way did the Ottoman Empire UNINTENTIONALLY encourage European countries to explore both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?

They slaughtered Christians to get revenge for the Crusades.

They taxed merchants who traveled through choke points to pass through the Empire.

They only allowed Muslim traders to pass through their empire.

They offered a reward to countries that found the best trading routes to Asia, never dreaming that Spain and Portugal could win.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following were accomplishments of Prince Henry the Navigator?

Started a school to train sailors in navigation

Paid cartographers to map the coastline of Africa

Helped Portugal dominate trade with Asia in the Indian Ocean

Prince Henry deserves credit for all of these things.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A "Mother Country" sending settlers to build colonies and send raw materials back to them in order to make the Mother Country rich is a description of:

Capitalism

Mercantilism

Laissez-faire

Manorialism

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which European explorer was the first to sail south of Africa to reach India by sea?

Henry the Navigator

Ferdinand Magellan

Vasco da Gama

Christopher Columbus

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which was the first European explorer to sail west across the Atlantic ocean an make contact with Native Americans in the Caribbean?

Christopher Columbus

Vasco da Gama

Ferdinand Magellan

Hernan Cortez

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why did the Aztecs welcome Hernan Cortez into their city and treat him like a god?

They believed he was a god

He used his guns to force the Aztecs to treat him well

He spoke Nahuatl, so the Aztecs thought he was one of them

The loved his blond hair and blue eyes

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