Great Age of Exploration Quiz Review

What happened to Columbus’s first settlement in the New World?

• The settlers sailed back to Spain when winter made it too difficult to stay.

• The settlers starved to death when their crops failed.

• The settlers moved from Hispaniola to the better climate in Cuba.

• The settlers were killed by native tribes angry about how they were treated.

What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?

• A pact among European nations establishing the right of conquest in the New World.

• A treaty between Spain and England giving England rights to settle colonies in North America.

• A treaty dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal.

• A treaty among European powers for sharing shipping routes between Asia and Europe.

Prince Henry of Portugal sent explorers west across the Atlantic Ocean to discover new lands for Portugal.

• True

• False

For what is Prince Henry of Portugal remembered?

• conquering the Incas in Peru

• expelling the Muslims from the Iberian peninsula

• opening a school of navigation at Sagres, Portugal

• sailing the first trip around the Cape of Good Hope

Why did European explorers begin to look for a way to sail to Asia?

• Muslim traders had stopped bringing spices from Asia to European ports.

• Europeans needed medicines from the East to fight the Black Death.

• Muslims and a few Italian merchants had a monopoly on trade with the East.

• Merchants wanted to open Asian ports to the new products being produced in European factories.

Why was Cortez able to quickly conquer the Aztecs?

• The Aztecs were not prepared for the overwhelming number of men that Cortez brought with him.

• The Aztecs were already under attack from the Incas when Cortez arrived.

• The Aztecs surrendered to Cortez because they thought that he was a god.

• Cortez’s troops were much more technologically advanced than the Aztecs.

Why did many Europeans think Amerigo Vespucci was the first to explore the New World?

• Columbus had tried to keep his voyages a secret.

• Vespucci made a deal with a German mapmaker to use his name in a new map of the world.

• Vespucci used the printing press to publish his ideas throughout Europe.

• Columbus had not started any successful settlements in the New World.

What made the king and queen of Spain receptive to Columbus’s idea of sailing west to Asia?

• They believed that Asia was only 4,000 miles away, a much shorter distance than the trip around Africa.

• They had recently heard that Portuguese explorers had found gold in the New World.

• They had a lot of money because they had just captured the wealthy Moorish stronghold of Granada.

• New navigational instruments had recently convinced them that the world was round.

Which of the following is NOT true of Renaissance culture?

• People moved away from the cities toward smaller villages.

• Culture turned outward, away from the inward preoccupation of the Middle Ages.

• Europeans rediscovered the cultures of ancient Rome and Greece.

• There was an increased interest in astronomy, geography, and invention.

Who was Bartolomeu Diaz?

• the Spanish sea captain who first explored the Hudson River

• the captain of the first Portuguese ship to reach the tip of Africa

• the man who conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico

• the Portuguese sailor who established the Portuguese settlement in India