Age of Exploration

What ocean was crossed on the Triangular trade routes?

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

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

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

• Barely survived
• Thrived
• Demise

As a result of the Columbian exchange, which disease wiped out the majority of natives? 

• Black Plague
• Whooping Cough
• Smallpox
• Measles

What is considered the "New World?"

• Europe
• Asia
• The Americas
• Africa

The Italian sailor who explored the Americas for Spain was…

• Vasco da Gama
• Ponce de Leon
• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand Magellan

Who was the first captain whose crew circumnavigated the globe?

• Vasco da Gama
• Ponce de Leon
• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand Magellan

Triangular Trade was between what three regions?

• England: France: Spain
• Europe: Africa/Asia: New World
• North America: Caribbean: South America
• China: Korea: Japan

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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