AGE OF EXPLORATION QUIZ

The first European to see the Pacific Ocean

• Columbus

• Leif Erikson

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Henry the Navigator

 travel completely around 

• GPS navigator
• Magellan
• circumnavigate

The __________ __________ brought new domestic animals, new food plants, and new diseases to the Western Hemisphere. 

• trading stuff
• disease exchange
• Columbian exchange

What are two examples of the impact the Americas had on Europe during the Columbian Exchange?

• foods and ideas
• diseases and death
• gold and captives

Spanish colonists who had been born in Spain occupied the Mestizo level of society.

• true
• false

Believing that he had reached a group of Asian islands called the Indies, Columbus called the inhabitants he encountered __________

• Indians
• Africans
• Cubans
• Bahamians

When the Inca people paid Pizarro a ransom for their leader, Pizarro released him

• true
• false

The Spanish government granted __________ that included the right to demand labor and taxes from Native Americans.

• Gold
• silver
• encominedas
• farms

When Ponce de León went to Florida, he became the first Spaniard to set foot in what is now the United States.

• true
• false

__________ was a Spanish priest who helped bring reform of the way Spanish settlers treated Native Americans

• Bartolome de Las Casas
• Pizarro
• Cortes
• Ponce de Leon