First Semester Exam Study Guide

The Columbian Exchange began after this explorer made trips to the Americas. Who is this explorer?

• Hernando de Soto
• Leif Eriksson
• John Cabot
• Christopher Columbus

What caused many Native Americans to die during the time of the Columbian Exchange?

• Diseases
• Spoiled Food
• Spoiled Meat
• War with Europeans

Which area did the Columbian Exchange not involve?

• New World Americans
• Old World Europeans
• China
• Atlantic Ocean

What group of people suffered the most during the Columbian Exchange?

• Animals
• Explorers
• Native Americans
• Europeans

Balboa was the first European to reach the Eastern coast of a specific ocean. Which ocean did he find?

• Pacific Ocean
• Atlantic Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• Arctic Ocean

The ___ were the first Europeans to sail to the Americas.

• Vikings
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italians

There are stories that ___ sailed to Vinland (Canada) in 1001A.D.

• Ferdinand Magellan
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Christopher Columbus
• Leif Erikson

Columbus made ___ voyage(s) to the New World.

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

___ was the first European explorer to see the Pacific Ocean in the Western Hemisphere.

• Christopher Columbus
• Amerigo Vespucci
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Ferdinand Magellan

___ found an Atlantic-Pacific passage.

• Christopher Columbus
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Ferdinand Magellan