MV - AP World History - Chapter 5 - QUIZ

All of the following are motivations for Europeans to venture across the Atlantic to the Americas EXCEPT

• Once America was discovered, there were windfalls of natural resources.

• They were getting very wealthy participating in Indian Ocean commerce.

• Enduring rivalries of competing European states.

• Growing merchant class that wanted direct access to luxury Asian goods.

What Spanish conquistador joined forces with various subjects of the Aztec Empire to defeat the Aztecs?

• Pedro de Heredia

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernan Cortes

What is the term to describe the devastating demographic impact of European-borne epidemic diseases on the Americas?

• Columbian Exchange

• General Crisis

• Little Ice Age

• Great Dying

What is the term for the period from the 13th-19th century of unusually cool temperatures that spanned much of the early modern period?

• Little Ice Age

• Columbian Exchange

• Great Dying

• General Crisis

The enormous network of communication, migration, trade, disease, and the transfer of plants and animals, all generated by European colonial empires, in the Americas, has been dubbed what?

• Great Dying

• Little Ice Age

• General Crisis

• Columbian Exchange