August Review Quiz

Match the following expeditions to the explorers:

• Christopher Columbus

• Circumnavigation of world

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• New World

• Francisco Coronado

• MS River

• Hernando DeSoto

• Fountain of Youth

• Ferdinand Magellan

• 7 Cities of Gold

Label the map by identifying the destination of each explorer:

a

b

c

d

e

Ferdinand Magellan

Vasco da Gama

Juan Ponce de Leon

Bartolomeu Dias

Christopher Columbus

The voyage of enslaved Africans to the Americas was known as the

______ defeated the Aztec Empire.

The ____ empire was defeated by Francisco Pizarro.

The ______ allowed Spanish settlers to tax or enslave Native Americans.

The ______ were the first Europeans to settle North America.

What was the INITIAL reason that European explorers sailed to the Americas?

• to find new sea routes to Asia

• to form military alliances

• to spread Christianity to Africa

• to find new sources of cheap labor

a sea passage between the Atlantic and Pacific along the north coast of North America

• Northwest Passage

• Mayflower Compact

• Columbian Exchange

• Proclamation of 1763

a religious community where Native Americans were converted to Christianity (Catholicism)

• missions

• forts

• presidios

• cities