Age of Exploration Chapter Test

How did the Columbian Exchange hurt the Americas?

• Disease killed millions of Native Americans.

• New species of plants and animals threatened native habitats

• Millions of Africans were enslaved and moved to the Americas

• All options listed

In the 1400s, overseas expeditions were considered to be what?

• expensive

• dangerous

• easy

• not possible

Why did the Portuguese bring enslaved Africans to the

Cape Verde Islands?

• to work in sugarcane fields

• to work as household servants

• to trade with local people

• to harvest cotton

Ptolemy developed this system of lines that circumnavigate the world.

• true north

• longitude and latitude

• equator

• South Pole

How did the primary goals of the Spanish and Portuguese

differ in the Americas?

• Only the Spanish sought to protect the environment of the Americas.

• Spain wanted to spread Catholicism; Portugal wanted to find new food crops

• Portugal mined precious metals; Spain set up sugarcane plantations

• Spain mined precious metals; Portugal set up sugarcane plantations

Why were Europeans in the 1400s eager to find a sea

route to Asia?

• Existing trade routes were very expensive

• They loved to sail.

• They needed rice from China.

• The Silk Road had been destroyed

After Europeans arrived in America, what happened to many Native Americans?

• set up confederations.

• moved to present-day Canada.

• were killed by European diseases

• converted to Catholicism.

England and Spain went to war in the 1560s because

Spain demanded what?

• the Dutch convert to Protestantism

• Spain should control the English Channel 115

• the Dutch remain Catholic.

• England pay high taxes on trade.

Why did the Portuguese explored Africa's coast?

• had built the caravel.

• were afraid to sail across the Atlantic.

• had studied works of al-Idrisi and Ptolemy.

• did not want to trade with Asia.

What is the concept merchants used to decide what to buy and sell?

• supply and demand

• cheaper the better

• make it you sell it

• sell and demand