Age of Exploration

Where did Henry the Navigator set up a school for explorers?

• Spain

• France

• Portugal

• England

What main product did the Portuguese grow in Brazil?

• coffee

• sugar

• tobacco

• corn

Who discovered America accidentally?

• Vasco da Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernando Cortez

Who is credited with being the first person to sail around the World?

• Francisco Pizarro

• Atahualpa

• Vasco da Gama

• Ferdinand Magellan

What is it called to go, or sail, around something?

• plantation

• colony

• circumnavigate

• mercantilism

Who claimed Florida for Spain?

• Francis Drake

• Francisco Pizarro

• Henry the Navigator

• Ponce de Leon

Who was the Spanish priest who suggested getting slaves from Africa?

• Francisco Pizarro

• Bartolome de Las Casas

• Hernando Cortez

• Ponce de Leon

What was the slave-labor system used by the Spanish in the Americas?

• mercantilism

• encomienda

• columbian exchange

• capitalism

Which one is NOT a reason why the Spanish were able to easily conquer the Aztecs?

• they had more people

• they had weapons

• they made alliances with neighboring tribes

• they carried diseases with them

Atahualpa was the last emperor of what civilization?

• Aztec

• Mayan

• Cherokee

• Inca