Exploration Test Practice Feeley

The name of the type of ship used by many European explorers

• cruiser

• frigate

• caravel

• schooner

This disease wiped out a huge percentage of the Native American population

• smallpox

• chicken pox

• colitis

• diabetes

He conquered the Inca Empire in 1532. 

• Pizarro

• Columbus

• Atahualpa

• Cortez

This was the first permanent English settlement in North America

• Croydon

• Jamestown

• New Netherland

• Florida

This Spanish explorer thought he had discovered a western route to Asia; he actually “discovered” some islands in the Caribbean Sea.

• Magellan

• Vasco da Gama

• Cartier

• Columbus

He claimed the area, now known as New York, for the Netherlands.  His ship was named, “Half Moon.”   Three waterways around New York are named for him

• Henry Hudson

• Ponce de Leon

• Prince Henry

• Pedro Cabral

A transatlantic trading network from Europe or New England to Africa and the West Indies, and back again

• Circular Trade
• Linear Trade
• Triangular Trade
• Square Trade

He was the Inca ruler that was ransomed for a room full of gold by his Spanish captors.

• Montezuma
• Pizarro
• Cortes
• Atahualpa

Spanish word for “conqueror,” used to describe early Spanish explorers of the Americas.

• pionero
• colonizador
• explorador
• conquistador

The global transfer of plants, foods, animals and diseases starting with American colonization.

• Colonial Exchange
• Columbian Exchange
• Transatlantic Exchange
• New World Exchange