Age of Exploration Quiz

 What statement BEST describes the Triangular Trade?

• The way Native tribes traded for food between one another

• How the printing press spread ideas around the Mediterranean World

• The exchange of slaves and other goods between Europe, Africa, & the Americas

• Exchange of ideas between India and China

What was the main cause of the population change shown on the chart above?

• the migration of several culture groups to North America

• losses due to Spanish military actions against native peoples

• starvation resulting from declining agricultural production

• the introduction of disease by contact with Europeans

What statement BEST describes the Columbian Exchange?

• Christopher Columbus military conquest of Native peoples

• The exchange of plants, animals, goods and slaves between Europe & Americas

• The establishment of large-scale plantations maintained by African slaves

• When certain numbers of Native Americans embraced Christianity

Which of these best completes the concept web?

• spread disease

• build more ships

• find better trade routes

• share scientific knowledge

This Portuguese explorer's expedition was the first to circumnavigate the world. Who was he?

• Robert La Salle

• Bartholomeu Diaz

• Henry Hudson

• Ferdinand Magellan

In the 1400s, the first Portuguese explorers sailed along the coast of Africa. What was the main purpose of their voyages?

• finding a water route to India’s spices

• finding natives who would trade with them

• finding slaves who could be sold in other lands

• finding a new world that no European had ever seen

Who was the Portuguese explorer that FIRST sailed around Africa in order to make it to Asia by water?

• Francisco Pizarro

• Christopher Columbus

• Henry Hudson

• Vasco de Gama

Which crop was brought to Europe from the Americas?

• rice

• oats

• corn

• wheat

Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?

• a Portuguese prince

• He helped start schools to teach about exploration and navigation

• He sent several explorers on expeditions to sail around the west coast of Africa in attempts to find a route to India

• All of the above

What was an effect of Spanish exploration on both the Incan and the Aztec civilizations?

• great losses in population

• migration over long distances

• expansion of territory

• large increases in trade