WHII Unit 3 European Exploration

Which is a contributing factor to the European discovery of lands

in the Western Hemisphere?

• Promote democracy

• Unify currency in the colonies

• Restore territory lost in conflicts

• Demand for gold, spices and resources

[Scientists, cartographers, and

experts were gathered. They

created maps, made ship designs,

and trained captains and crews for

lengthy sea voyages.]

Who was known for his pioneering role for sponsoring

exploration for Portugal as shown?

• Francis Drake

• Prince Henry

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

Which explorer left Spain sailing west around South America to

the Pacific Ocean and was credited for being the first to

circumnavigate the world?

• Vasco da Gama

• Francis Drake

• John Cabot

• Ferdinand Magellan

Representing Portugal, which navigator led ships around the

Cape of Good Hope in 1497 and reached the west coast of India?

• Jacques Cartier

• Francisco Pizarro

• Vasco da Gama

• Hernando Cortez

Which Spanish conquistador was known for his expeditions that

led to the Spanish conquest of Peru and the Incas?

• Christopher Columbus

• Francisco Pizarro

• Vasco da Gama

• Jacques Cartier

As colonists emigrated to the Americas, the colonists brought

with them education, laws, language, architecture, and religion.

Colonists mostly imitated the culture of the –

• Enslaved Africans

• indigenous populations

• parent country

• lowest social classes

The mixing of Old World and New World plants, animals and

diseases became known as the –

• Trans-Saharan Trade Route

• Silk routes

• Columbian Exchange

• Southeast Maritime Trade

The shortage of workers to grow cash crops in the Americas due

to the demise of the indigenous peoples led to –

• new labor laws in the colonies and Europe

• more diverse types of agriculture

• merchants moving trading posts to new locations

• the forced migration of enslaved Africans

Which is not a way Christianity was diffused into the Americas?

• Populations remained isolated

• Colonists migrated to new lands

• Influence from Catholic and Protestant colonists

• Indigenous populations converted

Which trade pattern linked Europe, Africa and the Americas

• Black Sea routes

• Silk routes

• Triangular trade

• Trans-Saharan routes