1.4 Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest

What financial innovation in Europe helped facilitate overseas expansion?

• The caravel

• Barter system
• Joint-stock companies
• Feudalism

What economic philosophy caused Europeans to seek out new sources of gold and silver?

• Capitalism
• Monarchism

• Feudalism

• Mercantilism

What religious movement in Europe caused Catholic countries such as Spain to seek out new converts overseas?

• Protestant Reformation
• Scientific Revolution
• The Great Awakening

• The Renaissance

Which of the following is NOT a technological innovation that facilitated early European overseas expansion?

• The caravel

• Advancements in cartography

• The astrolabe

• The steamship

How did the Columbian Exchange affect the Americas? Check all that apply.

• As much as 90% of Native Americans died from European diseases

• Animals from Afro-Eurasia transformed American ecology and culture

• Native Americans profited from the introduction of European crops

• Native American belief systems were completely replaced by Christianity

What effect did the Columbian Exchange have on Europe? Check all that apply.

• Europe transitioned from feudalism to capitalism

• American crops caused population in Europe to boom

• A dramatic decline in religious belief

• Spain extracted enormous mineral wealth from the Americas