Empires & Exploration (Modern World)

The dominant economic theory of the time that said colonies bring wealth to the mother country

• mercantilism
• imperialism
• empire
• divine right

This Portuguese explorer sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and established a direct trade route with India. 

• Vasco da Gama
• Bartolomeu Dias
• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand Magellan

The conquistador who added the lands of the present-day countries of Peru, Ecuador, and Chile to the Spanish empire by conquering the Incas was

• Olaudah Equiano.
• Hernán Cortés.
• Francisco Pizarro.
• Doña Marina.

At the top of Spanish colonial society were the

• creoles.
• peninsulares.
• mestizos.
• mulattoes.

In Spanish colonial society, creoles were

• people of Native American and European descent.
• native-born descendants of Spanish settlers.
• people born in Spain who were living in the Americas.
• people of African and European descent.

Europeans sought new trade routes so that they could

• travel along the Silk Road
• reach their American colonies faster.
• avoid exposure to the Black Death.
• gain direct access to Asia. 

What did Europeans consider to be the most important item of African trade during the 1500s and 1600s?

• guns
• enslaved persons
• gold
• rum

Which country adopted a policy of isolation?

• Italy
• Japan
• Portugal
• Spain

Who was the Aztec Emperor at the time of the Spanish conquest?

• Montezuma
• Atahualpa
• Mansa Musa
• MehmetII

Zheng He was an explorer for which Asian empire?

• Tokugawa
• Ming
• Mughal
• Safavid