Age of Exploration

What were early Portuguese explorers trying to find?

• a passage to India by land
• a way to the South Pole
• a new trade route to India by sea
• a new school in Portugal

_____ went to his grave believing he had discovered a westward passage to Asia, when in fact he had actually discovered the Americas.

• Amerigo Vespucci
• John Cabot
• Christopher Columbus
• Alfonso de Albuquerque

The trip for slaves from Africa to the New World was called the ____________.

• Long Ride
• Triangle Trade
• Columbian Exchange
• Middle Passage

What had the biggest impact on the decline of Native American populations?

• Introduction of diseases
• Assimilation policies
• Warfare
• Forced relocation

How did Spain control its colonies?

• The king would visit every few months

• Allowing Native Americans to rule

• Elections of their leaders

• King appoints a Viceroy to rule for him

When Conquestadors are granted encomiendas (organizations) to take resources, who did they use at first as labor?

• Their children

• People from Germany

• Native People

• Spanish Peasants

Monarchs desired to maximize profit by doing what?

• Working themselves

• Using forced labor

• Making soldiers work

• Melting gold and using it to make statues

Due to the decline in Native American populations Europeans did what for a new labor source?

• Turned to Africa for slave labor

• Trained animals

• Built machines

• Paid people to move to the colonies

Reasons for Spanish exploration - 3 G's

→ "Gold, God and Glory"

• True

• False

Choose two things the Americas gave the Old World

• Tomatoes

• Potatoes

• Horses

• Christianity