Age of Exploration Chapter 4 Test, Form A

A ship invented by the Portuguese that made it possible to travel long distances?

• astrolabe

• caravel

• compass

• colony

Leaders of the Spanish conquest in the Americas.

• peninsulares

• creoles

• conquistadors

• caravel

The 16th century was in the

• 1300s

• 1400s

• 1500's

• 1700's

A 17th century economic theory that held that the prosperity of a nation depended on large quantities of gold and silver.

• capitalism

• absolutism

• mercantilism

• communism

Sponsored the first Portuguese fleets to explore the west coast of Africa

• Prince Harry the Navigator

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Prince Hernan' the Navigator

• Prince Hector the Navigator

Exchange of plants, animals, and people between Europe and the Americas.

• American Exchange

• Foreign Exchange

• European Exchange

• Caribbean Exchange

• Colombian exchange

Forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas

• Eastern Passage

• Northern Passage

• Southern Passage

• Middle Passage

• Central Passage

Settlement of people living in a new territory linked with a parent/mother country by trade and direct government control

• country

• colony

• capital

• city

Spanish and Portuguese officials who resided temporarily in Latin America.

• peasants

• peons

• protestants

• peninsulares

Forced labor system used by the Spanish in colonial Latin America

• ecomienda

• encontrar

• escuela

• enchalada