Unit 6 Exam

What were early Portuguese explorers trying to find?

• a passage to India by land

• a new trade route to India by sea

• a way to the South Pole

• a new school in Portugal

An instrument used in celestial navigation to determine latitude and longitude

• Sextant

• Map-making

• Compass

• Astrolabe

The global exchange of goods, ideas, and resources in the 1500s to the 1600s is called the ___________ Exchange

• Amerigo

• Columbian

• Canadian

• Caribbean

His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world by sailing.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernan Cortes

• Marco Polo

A new type of ship that was strong, maneuverable, and able to sail against the wind

• Pirate Ship

• Caravel

• Canoe

• Viking Boat 

How did diseases impact the New World?

• They didn't
• They wiped out 75-90% of the Europeans
• They wiped out 75-90% of the indigenous people
• They helped the natives beat the Spanish

Europeans brought _________________ which killed 80-90% of the population.

• tobacco

• onions

• oranges

• disease

Which crop exported from the Americas to Europe had both a positive and negative effect on the Irish population?

• tomatoes

• peanuts

• cocoa (cacao)

• potato

What was the main reason Europeans began exploring in the 1400s?

• To find a trade route to Asia

• To find the Americas

• To fight the Chinese

• To discover new lands

What is mercantilism?

• A system where a mother countries gains money and power from natural resources that come from its colonies.

• where colonies trade gold and silver with each other.

• Wars that start over money.

• Plantation colonies trading slaves for money.