Age of Exploration Review

Who helped advance Portugal's exploration of the world by setting up a navigation school and giving money to mapmakers?

• Prince Henry the Navigator
• Genghis Khan
• Marco Polo
• Christopher Columbus

Who conquered the Aztecs?

• Christopher Columbus
• Francisco Pizarro
• Hernán Cortés
• Vasco Núñez de Balboa

What was the Columbian Exchange?

• The Columbian Exchange was a military alliance between Spain and Portugal in the 15th century.
• The Columbian Exchange was a trade agreement between Europe and Asia in the 17th century.
• The Columbian Exchange was a religious movement that spread across the Americas in the 18th century.
• The Columbian Exchange was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries.

A European country that began the Age of Exploration. BONUS: Name an explorer from that country

• Portugal
• Spain
• France
• Italy

A Portuguese sea captain who rounded the southern tip of Africa (Cape of Good Hope) and made it to India in 1498

• Christopher Columbus
• Amerigo Vespucci
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Vasco da Gama

Spanish conquerors who traveled to America and defeated natives using firearms, swords, determination, skill, diseases, and horses.

• Conquistadors

• Explorers

• Colonists

• Settlers

The Aztec ruler when Cortés and his men arrived in November of 1519; neither him nor his men had ever seen horses, firearms, cannons, and steel; Cortés' men eventually took him hostage.

• Moctezuma II
• Pachacuti
• Montezuma I
• Atahualpa

An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought

• communism
• socialism
• mercantilism
• capitalism

Led a small army in an invasion of the Inca Empire. He conquered the Inca and gained huge amounts of gold and silver for himself and Spain.

• Vasco Núñez de Balboa
• Hernán Cortés
• Francisco Pizarro
• Ferdinand Magellan

A Native American people who built a notable civilization in western South America in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The center of their empire was in present-day Peru. Francisco Pizarro of Spain conquered the empire.

• Aztec Empire
• Mayan Empire
• Olmec Empire
• Inca Empire