Unit 2 Test

Advances in navigation technology and the desire of Europeans to obtain goods from Asia are most closely associated with the 

• Rise of feudalism
  

• Age of Exploration

• Agricultural Revolution
  

• Age of Reason

In the late 1400s and early 1500s, what was a major reason for the European voyages of exploration? 

• Introduction of Enlightenment ideas

• desire to control Constantinople

• Rapid industrialization
  

• need for alternate trade routes

During the 15th century, which two European countries began sea voyages of exploration? 

• Germany and Italy

• Portugal and Spain

• England and France

• Russia and Netherlands

The journeys of Vasco da Gama, Christopher Columbus, and Bartholomeu Dias became possible in the late 1400s because of the 

• Support of exploration by the English government 

• Trade connections established by Ibn Battuta 

• Effects of the Atlantic slave trade 

• Development of new navigational instruments and technology  

• *Smallpox outbreak spreads throughout Mexico 

• *Many Incas convert to Christianity in ceremonies in Lima, Peru 

• *Cortes brings Aztec gold and silver treasures to Spain 

Which situation is illustrated in these statements?

• Empathy of Europeans for Native Americans 

• Triangular trade and its effects on agrarian economies 

• The relatively high costs of colonialism 

• The impact of contact between different peoples 

After contact with Europeans in the 1500s, millions of native peoples in Americas died as a result of  

• New foods, which the native peoples could not digest 

• Religious persecution resulting from the Spanish Inquisition 

• New diseases to which the native peoples had no natural immunity 

• Slavery and the terrible conditions on their sea journey to Europe 

Which nation had the most influence on the colonization of Latin America in the 1500s? 

• Spain

• France

• England

• Netherlands

Which statement explains the long-term significance of travels of Christopher Columbus 

• His interactions with the Native Americans served as a model for fair treatment of minorities 

• His ships were the first to complete an all around-the-world voyage 

• His calculations of the distance between Europe and Asia became the basis of modern maps 

• The end of regional isolation and the beginning of a period of European global domination 

A major result of the European Age of Exploration is 

• A long period of peace and prosperity of the nations of western Europe 

• Extensive migration of people form the Western Hemisphere to Europe and Asia  

• The fall of European national monarchies and the end of the power of the Catholic Church 

• The end of regional isolation and the beginning of a period of European global domination 

Which famous author wrote Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth? 

• Shakespeare

• DaVinci

• Michaelangelo

• Machiavelli