Mesoamerica, Atlantic Slave Trade, and European Exploration

1. What was one important effect of the Columbian Exchange?

• rapid decline in European population.

• economic instability in China and Japan

• spread of Hinduism into India

• introduction of new foods to both Europe and the Americas.

2. What was a direct result of the Atlantic

Slave Trade on West Africa?

• Animism was no longer practiced in Africa.

• Many West African communities faced population losses.

• Europeans industrial factories were established throughout Africa.

• Africans across the continent hired Europeans to train their military.

3. One reason Spanish conquistadors were able to conquer the Aztecs was that-

• Spanish soldiers possessed superior military technology.

• Aztec religious beliefs promoted nonviolence.

• Spain joined the Incas in their fight against the Olmecs

• The Spanish military outnumbered the Aztecs.

4. The Aztec calendar and the Maya use of zero both illustrate that pre-Columbian cultures in the Americas-

• traded with Africa.

• made advances in mathematics and science.

• declined because of invasion and disease.

• converted to Islam

5. Enslaved Africans were chained together on ships during their voyage to the Americas. What is this voyage called?

• The Middle Passage

• The tragic ride home.

• The Atlantic voyage

• The kidnap affect

6. The reason for European exploration is described as?

• God, Glutony, and Glory

• Riches, Rags,and Resources

• Gold, God, and Glory

• Strength, Truth, and Justice

7. What is meant by God, as for one of the reasons for exploration?

• To join the Natives in human sacrifice.

• Europeans converted the Natives to their form of Christianity.

• Europeans converting Natives to Islam.

• King Henry the VIII pulling away from the Catholic Church.

8. A system in which resources were taken to Great Britain. Those resources are manufactured into goods, which are traded for Africans. Africans are transported to the Americas. What is this system called?

• The immigration of Africans.

• The Protestant Reformation

• The Triangular Slave Trade

• The arrival of Christopher Columbus to the New World.

9. Where were most slaves transported once they reached the New World?

• North America

• Central America

• South America

• The Caribbean Islands

10. Due to the superior technology and diseases of the Spanish, Hernan Cortes was able to conquer which Mesoamerican Empire?

• The Mayan Empire

• The Aztec Empire

• The Incan Empire

• The Olmec Empire