Age of Exploration Review

Why did Europeans have trouble trading with other groups?

• They had a lot to trade

• They had little to trade

Renaissance merchants were MOST interested in acquiring which item?

• spices

• Corn

What did Prince Henry do to access African commodities?

• Sponsored many explorers & trained mapmakers

• Taught them how to read

Columbus accidentally "discovered" the new world. Where did he believe he landed?

• America

• India

Magellan's crew was the first group to _______.

• discover America

• circumnavigate the globe

How did Cortes's interpreter help him conquer the Aztecs?

• helped him form alliances with Aztec enemies

• helped him form alliances with Native Americans

Aztec land became part of ______.

• New Spain
• America

What percentage of treasure was claimed by the Spanish monarch?

• 1/2 or 50%

• 1/5 or 20%

Which TWO diseases were brought by the Spanish wiping out millions of natives?

• smallpox & influenza

• bird flu & influenza

Enslaved Africans brought new _____, cooking styles and crops.

• Farming methods
• dance moves