Age of Exploration and Colonization Quiz

What is the Encomienda System?

• A religious movement to convert indigenous people to Christianity

• A form of government established by the Spanish in the Americas

• A caste and labor system used by the Spanish during colonization

• A system of trade between European nations and the Americas

Who were the Peninsulares in the Spanish colonies?

• Spaniards born in Spain

• Enslaved persons brought from Africa and the Caribbean

• Native American Indians

• Born in New Spain of Spanish parents

What was the main driving force for explorers during the Age of Exploration?

• Gold

• God

• Glory

• All of the above

What is the Columbian Exchange?

• A system of trade between Europe and Asia

• A system of trade between Asia and the Americas

• A system of trade between Europe and the Americas

• A system of trade between Africa and the Americas

What was the process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area called?

• Circumnavigation

• Colonization

• Globalization

• Feudalism

Who completed the first circumnavigation of the globe?

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernán Cortés

• Francisco Pizarro

• Vasco Núñez de Balboa

What was the region defined by historians as containing central and southern Mexico and Central America called?

• United States of America

• Mesoamerica

• Colombia

• Venezuela

What was the process by which organizations and economic entities developed international influence or started operating on an international scale called?

• Caste System

• Colonization

• Globalization

• Feudalism

What was the exchange of goods, food, diseases, crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World during European exploration called?

• Encomienda System

• Columbian Exchange

• Age of Exploration

• Native American Cultural Diversity

What was the period of time ranging from the 1400s to the 1600s during which European nations explored the world through naval routes called?

• Age of Exploration

• Renaissance

• Industrial Revolution

• Enlightenment