Exploration Review

The Renaissance led to the Age of Exploration because

• it encouraged a desire for new trade routes and new things

• the Church and ancient scholars encouraged people to think about new ideas

• navigators and explorers helped protect the Silk Road

• it led to a division within the Catholic Church

Europeans sought a new trading route to Asia because the old routes were controlled by

• Muslims and Italians

• Chinese

• Spanish and Portuguese

• Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan

What new technologies enabled European exploration?

• gunpowder and cannons

• compass and astrolabe

• electricity and telegraph

• steam engine and steel

What were the motivations for European exploration?

• freedom, equality, independence

• knowledge, reason, literacy

• glory, god, gold

• fame, freedom, friendship

The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World (Europe, Africa, Asia) and the New World (North and South America) is known as the

• Atlantic Exchange

• Middle Passage

• Triangular Trade

• Columbian Exchange

What countries took the lead in colonizing the Americas?

• Spain and Portugal

• France and England

• Spain and England

• Italy and Muslims

What Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztecs?

• Christopher Columbus

• Prince Henry

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernan Cortes

The trade between the Americas, Europe, and Africa that involved the Atlantic Slave Trade is referred to as

• Columbian Exchange

• West Indies

• Triangle Trade

• the Reformation

What was the journey that slaves took across the Atlantic Ocean called?

• Triangle Trade

• Trail of Tears

• Atlantic Passage

• Middle Passage

Which of the following is a positive effect of the Columbian Exchange?

• diseases like smallpox spread and killed millions

• more food options led to better health

• Europeans had more different types of religions

• Horses were brought to Africa and Asia