Module 1 Review Game

Who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and on to Calicut, India?

Responses

• Prince Henry

• King Manuel

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco de Gama

What improvement to the caravel made it easier to steer than the older galleon?

• steering wheel

• flat bottoms

• rudder in back

• square sails

Christopher Columbus sailed for which country

• Spain

• Italy

• Portugal

• England

Who were the first Europeans to establish settlements in the Americas?

• The Spanish

• The Vikings

• The English

• The Portuguese

What was one consequence of the Doctrine of Discovery?

• Native peoples were no longer entitled to lands they had always occupied.

• Native peoples were forced to pay for lands the Europeans discovered.

• Europeans could take the land from the native peoples as long as they had their permission.

• Europeans were forced to pay for lands already occupied by native peoples.

What is one reason the Europeans began importing slaves from Africa to work on their new lands?

• The Europeans regarded the Native Americans too highly to make them work.

• Most of the Native Americans refused to work.

• Most of the Native Americans died from European diseases.

• The Europeans found it more economical to use Africans instead of the native peoples.

The movement of new plants, animals, people, and customs between Europe and the Americas in the 1400s and 1500s is called the __________.

• Columbian Exchange

• Line of Demarcation

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• New World

How did the men of Columbus’s expedition first know they were nearing land?

• They saw the tops of mountains.

• They saw birds and floating branches.

• They saw the Taino rowing out to meet them.

• They smelled the beautiful flowers from the islands.

Who was the first explorer to realize that the lands being discovered were not in Asia?

• Columbus

• Balboa

• Magellan

• Vespucci

The Spanish crown controlled migration to the new lands it discovered. They required that only __________ be allowed to settle there.

• Christians

• non-Christians

• Muslims

• Jews