Exploration, Mesoamerica, and Enlightenment

What type of ship enabled explorers to sail longer distances and carry more cargo?

• Steamship

• Astrolabe

• Spanish Galleon

• Destroyer

1. European voyages of discovery resulted from the advances and inventions from what revolution?

• Industrial Revolution

• American Revolution

• French Revolution

• Scientific Revolution

The idea that the sun is the center of the universe.

• Heliocentric Theory

• Geocentric Theory

• Hawkins Theory

• Aristotle Theory

Who was the first European explorer to circumnavigate the entire world?

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Hernando Cortez

Which one of the following was NOT one of the three G's of exploration?

• God

• Gold

• Glory

• Galleon

Mercantilism is when a colony supplies ______ to the mother country.

• finished products

• raw materials

• slaves

• religious converts

What was the encomienda system?

• an individual who tries to convert people to Christianity

• colonies that supply raw materials to mother country

• a treaty between Spain and Portugal dividing up newly discovered lands in the Americas

• A system that enslaved native Americans to perform labor for Spain

What is the difference between Direct Democracy in Athens and the Republic in the United States?

• In Athens, each citizen votes on the laws, and in the U.S., citizens vote on representatives who make the laws for them.

• In Athens, men and women had the right to vote, in the U.S., only women have the right to vote.

• In Ancient Athens, both men and women had to serve in the military, in the U.S., only the men are required to register for the military.

• In Athens, only women are allowed to vote, in the U.S., both men and women vote directly on the laws.

How were the Spanish conquistadors able to easily conquer the Aztecs and the Inca?

• They had better crops

• They had better weapons

• They had better shoes

• They had better hats

What caused the downfall of the Aztec Empire?

• The Aztec leaders fought over control of the capital

• They had to many human sacrifices causing the population to decrease

• Hernando Cortez brought war and disease to the Aztecs

• The environment of South America limited the amount of crops they were able to grow.