Review: Age of Exploration

Why did the English enslave so few Native Americans in the southern colonies and throughout the Caribbean?

• they died from disease as they lacked immunity

• more interested in trade than large plantations

• agricultural production in these areas only required a small work force

• the number of colonists moving to the colonies made it unnecessary

By the 1700's which nations East India Company dominated trade in the Indian Ocean?

• England

• Netherlands

• United States

• Spain

Who were the main participants in the treaty of Tordesillas?

• Spain and Portugal

• Spain and the Pope

• Portugal and the Pope

• England and France

The capture, enslavement, buying, and selling of people for profit is called...

• epidemic

• slave trade

• The Columbian Exchange

• colony

Which is an economic system based primarily on private ownership and the investment of resources to gain a profit?

• Socialism

• Mercantilism

• Capitalism

• Joint-stock Company

Choose the correct definition for caravel.

• an instrument used in navigation

• a small, fast sailing ship created by the Portuguese in the 1400s

• to travel completely around

• a settlement far away from the country that rules it

The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.

• Triangular Trade

• Middle Passage

• Columbian Exchange

• Globalization

The trade in goods, raw materials, and slaves between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.

• the Columbian Exchange

• the Triangular Trade

• the Middle Passage

• Globalization

Another word that means the same as the word conqueror is...

• merchant

• patron

• conquistador

• astrolabe

Choose all of the answers that were negative consequences of the age of exploration.

• epidemics

• slave trade

• Devastation of Native Americans

• Better diets