Unit 2 Test Review

What was the main purpose of the Treaty of Tordesillas signed by Portugal and Spain?

• To create an alliance against the Dutch

• To prevent war over the claiming of new lands

• To promote sharing technological advances in sailing

• To divide up the trade routes to the Antarctic

The science of map making is called ________________.

• geography

• sociology

• mapology

• cartography

Who was the famous Portuguese explorer who sailed around Africa all the way to India and created a profitable trade route between Europe and Asia?

• Vasco De Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernando Cortes

• Francisco Pizzaro

What famous explorer mistakenly "discovered" the Americas on behalf of Spain while searching for a faster route to India, but died still thinking he had found Asia?

• Hernando Cortes

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus

• Francisco Pizarro

Enslaved Africans were brought to the Caribbean and later the Americas on a traumatic, disorienting voyage that was known as

• Slave Passage

• No Man's Sea

• Atlantic Passage

• Middle Passage

Marketism is an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power through trade with other countries

• True

• False

Which of the following best describes Europeans’ main motives for making voyages of exploration?

• To grow wealthy and spread Christianity

• To break the Portuguese control on trade

• To test their new technology

• To gain extra land for a growing population

Which of the following did NOT help the Spanish conquer the Aztecs?

• Deadly diseases

• Help from other natives

• Better weapons

• Outnumbering the natives

The Bubonic Plague is the disease responsible for killing 90% of the Native American population in the Americas.

• True

• False

Although this region offered several valuable trading commodities, which important  

    commodities became the “namesake” for these islands?

• bananas

• spices

• sugar

• citrus