Unit 8 Age of Exploration Review

The journeys of Vasco de Gama, Ferdinand Magellan and Christopher Columbus became possible in the late 1400s because of the

• Development of new navigational instruments and technology

• Trade connection established by Ibn Battuta

• Effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade

• Food shortage in Europe

Why did Hernando Cortes sail to Mexico?

• Cortes has been challenged by Pizarro to be the first to find an all-water route to Mexico

• European architects paid Cortes to visit the Aztec pyramids

• Gold & silver were thought to have been in surplus in Mexico

• Wanted to gain more slaves

The British and the Dutch made effective use of what new type of economic organization?

• Joint-stock companies such as the British East India Company

• Extensive use of paper money, which they borrowed from China

• Community-owned businesses in which people participated democratically

• Government with a president and different departments

The bullets above express which reason for exploration by the Spanish?

• God: spreading the Catholic faith

• Gold: lucrative trade and discovery of riches

• Glory: exploring and conquering for country

• Land: European nations had run out of room and needed to expand to keep the population under control

Who discovered an all-water route from Europe to India by sailing around the southern tip of Africa?

• Christopher Columbus

• Francisco Pizarro

• Vasco Da Gama

• Hernando Cortes

Why did the colonies need slaves?

• To grow the population

• They needed workers to do back breaking manual labor.

• To create a caste-system

• To help them fight the war against the Natives

Who is credited with discovering America?

• Montezuma

• Cortes

• Pizarro

• Columbus

What changes did the Inca face after Francisco Pizarro and his army defeated them?

• Surviving members of the Inca were sailed back to Spain

• The Inca were forced to leave Peru and find new territory

• Destroyed the natural resources

• Christianity was forced upon the Inca to help spread European religious belief

In the 16th century, European nations wanted better routes to Asia because they were interested in its —

• culture

• land

• spices

• slaves

Marriage among Spanish settlers and Native Americans led to the growth of which population?

• creole

• criollo

• mestizo

• peninsular