Unit 3 Test Review

What diseases did Europeans bring to the New World?

• Smallpox

• Influenza

• Bubonic Plague

• Malaria

• Rhinovirus

An explorer who claims land for Spain is known as a....

• Conquistador

• Empressarion

• Migrant

• Ranchero

What was the journey from Africa to the New World called?

• Middle Passage

• New Passage

• Slave Passage

• Old Passage

Why would Conquistadors bring priests with them to the Americas?

• To teach the Spanish soldiers about Christianity

• To help the Spaniards hold religious services

• To perform weddings between Spanish soldiers and native women

• To convert the native peoples to Christianity

This famous Spanish Conquistador conquered the Aztec civilization.

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernan Cortez

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Francisco Pizarro

Who encourages his country's maritime exploration to the South, aiming to sail around Africa to gain access to the Asian spice trade and is credited with beginning the Age of Exploration?

• Prince Henry "The Navigator"

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Vasco De Gama

• Christopher Columbus

Up to 2 million slaves died while being forcefully transported on ships from Africa to the Americas.

• True

• False

How was Ferdinand Magellan able to prove the Earth was round?

• He opened up a school of navigations to educate people

• Christopher Columbus confirmed his theory on his voyage

• He circumnavigated the Earth by ship from Spain and back again

• He came up with Magellan's Mathematical Equation to prove it

Who established direct trade with India while bypassing the Italian and Muslim merchants that controlled the overland trade routes?

• Vasco De Gama

• Prince Henry "The Navigator"

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus

What items are from the Old World?

• Barley

• Peanuts

• Pineapples

• Horses

• Rice