European explorers vocab quiz

What famous early global connector set out from the Ming dynasty in ancient China?

• Marco Polo

• Ibn Battuta

• Zheng He

• Christopher Columbus

The claiming and settlement of foreign territories for the purpose of gaining resources for the mother country

• Exploration 
• Colonization 
• Democracy 
• Exploitation 

A Spanish conqueror in the Americas

• Warrior 
• Explorer 
• Conquistador 
• Native American 

The action of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work and making use of and benefiting from natural resources

• Exploitation 
• Favoritism 
• Encomienda 
• Missionaries 

The development of an increasingly integrated global economy through trade, finances, and communication

• Colonization 
• Globalization 
• Trade 
• Capitalism 

An original or native area where a person lives; the native populations of a country

• Ancestor 
• Relative 
• Indigenous 
• Conquistador 

A person who is sent to a foreign country to do religious work like convince people to join a religion or to help people that are sick, poor, etc.

• Minister 
• Conquistador 
• Leader 
• Missionary 

A company from the Netherlands that was primarily interested in trading with India for spices, indigo and other natural resources

• Indigenous 
• Dutch East India Company 
• Transatlantic 
• Tea Company 

 Brought thousands of native Africans to North America to work as indentured servants on large farms

• Transatlantic Slave Trade
• Exploration 
• Encomiendas
• Middle Passage 

The middle part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade from Africa to the Americas.

• Middle Passage 
• Part Two 
• Northwest Passage 
• Trade Route