Ch. 2 Lesson 1 The Growth of Trade Review

Spain, Portugal, and other European countries were in competition to find _______________.

• a sea route to the Indies

• new food crops

• the United States of America

• a way to keep the British out of the Americas

Spices were valuable because they were used ______________.

• as medicine, food preservatives, and flavorings

• to help sailors navigate on the high seas

• to fund Columbus' voyage to the Americas

• as the basis of the Columbian Exchange

The compass allowed sailors to _______________.

• measure the positions of the stars

• tell which direction was north

• discover the North Pole

• predict when cloudy weather would occur

A carrack and caravels were the ships used _________________.

• by Native Americans in the Caribbean

• to sail across the Mediterranean

• by Queen Isabella of Spain

• on Christopher Columbus' first voyage

Columbus thought he had landed in the Indies, but he really landed _______________.

• in Spain

• in Portugal

• on a Caribbean island

• near the Pacific Ocean

The Ocean Sea was ______________.

• another name for the Atlantic Ocean

• another name for the Pacific Ocean

• the body of water that separated the Americas from Europe

• a body of water that did not really exist

Queen Isabella wanted Native Americans ______________.

• to convert to Christianity

• to move to Spain

• to work on Spanish ships

• to show the way to the Indies

Amerigo Vespucci ________________.

• competed with Christopher Columbus

• identified South America as a continent

• settled in the Caribbean and spent the rest of his life there

• named a continent after himself

For what achievement was Vasco Nuñez de Balboa known?

• He sailed around the world.

• He was the next important explorer after Christopher Columbus.

• He was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the Americas.

• He was the first to hike through rain forests in the Americas.

The exchange of plants and animals between Europeans and the people living in the Americas ________________.

• changed the lives of both groups of people forever

• caused strong bonds of friendship to develop between the two cultures

• caused the Native Americans to develop immunity to European diseases

• is the reason the country of Colombia got its name