3 Age of Exploration

A company that minted money, made treaties, and could raise an army. Had bases in the Netherlands and India.

• Dutch East India Company

• British East India Company

• Dutch West India Company

• Dutch India Company of the East Indies

The Treaty of Tordesillas was an agreement primarily between:

• Spain and England

• Spain and France

• Spain and Portugal

• Spain and the Netherlands

According to the Treaty of Tordesillas, which country had the right to claim territories to the east of the line of demarcation?

• Spain

• Portugal

• England

• France

After the conquest, the territory controlled by Hernán Cortés became known as:

• New Spain

• Spanish Peru

• New Granada

• Portuguese Brazil

In what year did Christopher Columbus first reach the Americas?

• 1492

• 1501

• 1519

• 1532

Founded in the 13th Century, the __________ Empire ruled between 4 and 6 million people by the time the Spanish arrived in 1532.

• Inca

• Aztecs

• Ming

• Qing

• Ottoman

Spanish mines in the Americas produced over 150,000 tons of silver between the 16th and the 18th centuries, over _____% of the world’s supply.

• 60

• 40

• 20

• 80

• 50

When did Spain arrive in Mexico?

• 1519

• 1520

• 1521

• 1530

The Triangle Trade primarily involved the exchange of goods and slaves between:

• Europe, Asia, and Africa

• Europe, Africa, and the Americas

• Africa, Asia, and the Americas

• Europe, the Americas, and India

One major consequence of the Columbian Exchange was:

• The introduction of democracy to the Americas

• The spread of diseases like smallpox to the indigenous peoples of the Americas

• The immediate abolition of slavery in the New World

• The rapid decline of European trade with Africa