European Exploration

Identify the Conquistador correctly matched with the culture he conquered.

• Desoto: Aztecs

• Magellan: Mayas

• Montezuma: Anasazi

• Pizarro: Incas

The men largely responsible for Spain's conquest of the New World were known as

• condottiere.

• encomendieros.

• coureurs de bois.

• los conquistadors.

The "Middle Passage" referred to

• the creation of the Panama Canal in Central America.

• the transportation of slaves from Africa to the New World.

• Lewis and Clark's expedition into the Louisiana Territory.

• the best route over the Rocky Mountains to get to California.

The GREATEST impact of the Columbian Exchange was

• the annual storage of crops for native peoples.

• the transport of slaves from the Americas to Africa.

• the spread of new diseases, which led to vaccinations.

• the transfer of plants, people, and ideas between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.

Which pre-Columbian civilization was the earliest to exist?

• Aztec

• Inca

• Maya

• Toltec

The expansion and stability of the Inca Empire was aided by

• the widespread use of horses for quick communication.

• the Aztec policy of swift punishment to stop rebellions.

• an extreme network of roads that linked its territories.

• its alliance with the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro.

The voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492

• opened the way for Spain to colonize North and South America.

• led the way for Portugal to build a vast trading empire in Asia.

• led England to claim the vast territory surrounding the Hudson Bay.

• showed Spain the way around South America and into the Pacific Ocean.

Who was the first explorer to round the Cape of Good Hope and sail directly from Europe to India?

• Vasco de Gama

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus

Which nation began the large scale importation of enslaved Africans into the New World?

• Spain

• France

• Portugal

• Great Britain

The European Age of Exploration would not have been possible without the astrolabe and the compass, both of which were adapted from

• African kings.

• Muslim sailors.

• British merchants.

• Byzantine scholars.