Age of Exploration

What did success in mercantilism depend on?

• Controlling the slave trade
• Having no trade

• Gaining as much gold and silver as possible
•  Salutary Neglect

What ocean was crossed on the Triangular trade routes?

• The Caribbean
• The Indian
• The Atlantic
• The Pacific

Which three continents were involved in the Triangular Trade?

• South America, Asia, Europe
• Asia, Africa, North America
• North America, Africa, and Eroupe
• North America, Australia, and Asia

What was the path called from Africa to the Americas that was used for trading enslaved peoples?

• Middle Passage
• Slave Trade Line
• Center Passage
• The Land Bridge

The journeys of Vasco de Gama, Bartolomeu Dias, and Christopher Columbus became possible in the late 1400s because of the:

• support of exploration by the English monarch.
• trade connections established by the Americans.
• effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
• advancements in sea travel.

What were the three reasons for European exploration?

• Game, God, Glory
• Glory, Fame, and God
• God, Glory, and Gold
• Gifts, Greatness, Glory

What happened to the Inca and Aztec as a result of European expansion? 

• Barely survived
• Thrived
• Demise

What was the purpose of European exploration?

• To find a sea route to Asia.
• To expand the Silk Road.
• To take back the Holy Land.
• To find a land route to Africa.

The trading of ideas, culture, people, goods, and diseases between Europe and the New world came to be known as...

• Triangular Trade.
• the Middle Passage.
• the Columbian Exchange.
• Mercantilism.

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Ships that made long distance ocean voyages possible were:

• Caravels
• Astrolabes
• Titanics
• Voyagers