Review Quiz Unit 1

Motives for exploration include

• more efficient sailing due to new tech

• gunpowder was used for guns

• Europeans wanted to cut out middle man who are overcharging

• printing press created more accurate maps

Which European nation began to explore first during the Age of Exploration?

I conquered the Aztecs

• Francisco Pizarro

• Christopher Columbus

• Magellan

• Hernado Cortez

I defeated the Inca and as a result claimed most of South America for Spain

• Christopher Columbus

• Leif Erikson

• Francisco Pizarro

• Martin Luther

I 'discovered' America while sailing for a new route to Asia

• Franscico Pizarro

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernando Cortez

• Vasco De Gama

Trade between Europe, Africa and the New World

• Middle Passage

• Mercantilism

• Triangular Trade

• Joint Stock Company

The second leg of triangular trade which transported captured Africans to the New World

• middle passage

• slave trade

• silk road

• the spice route

The original plan for European colonists was to use Natives as slaves on their farms and plantations. However, disease killed them. What continent did the new group they enslaved come from?

• Asia

• Africa

• Australia

• South America

What European disease wiped out a large portion of the New World natives?

• dysentery

• flu

• cystic fibrosis

• smallpox

This new economic policy caused Europeans to compete with each other over land and resources.

• capitalism

• industrialization

• mercantilism

• communism