Age of Exploration Review

Europeans began to explore and expand in the 1500s following the ideal:

• Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

• Gold, God and Glory

• Copper, Cattle, Cotton, Citrus and Climate

• Revenge, Resistance and Retribution

European nations began to search for new overseas colonies after 1880 to:

• find people who would work in European factories for low wages

• promote a free exchange of ideas between Eastern and Western cultures.

• bring the economic benefits of industrialization to underdeveloped nations.

• obtain raw materials for their industries and open new markets for their products.

Potatoes, indigenous to the Americas, helped to support population growth and changed food dishes throughout Europe because of which exchange of food and animals?

• Monetary Exchange

• Great Exchange

• Columbian Exchange

• Greek Exchange

Image of a Spanish settler and Indigenous Americans depicts...

• Tributo

• Educacion

• Prestamo

• Encomienda

The trade route shown is...

• Silk Road

• Atlantic Slave Trade

• East India Trading Company

• Trans-Saharan Trading Route

Spanish and Portuguese kings appointed _____ to govern their colonies in Latin America for them.

• Viceroys

• Soviets

• Mestizos

• Native Americans

What other countries settled in the Americas, challenging the financial control over the indigenous peoples enjoyed by the Spanish and Portuguese?

• Netherlands, France, and England

• Germany and Austria

• China and India

• Eastern Africa and the Gold Coast

The more that European countries expanded, colonized and developed in the Americas, the bigger the demand for...

• Drinking water

• slaves from West Africa

• Luxury goods to sell

• Native American goods

The Portuguese and Spanish Explorers of the Age of Exploration split the globe into two worlds, the Old and the New. Which continents were a part of the Old and which the New?

• Old: Europe, Asia, Africa. New: Americas

• Old: North and South America. New: Antarctica

• Old: Antarctica, Asia, Africa, Americas. New: Europe

• Old: Africa. New: Americas

What were the most important Latin American natural resources for Spain and Portugal?

• Manufactured goods

• Sugar, Diamonds, Animal hides

• Gold and Silver

• Tobacco