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WorksheetsEuropean Exploration of the World
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 20mins
Which country was NOT part of the early exploration periods between the 1400s- 1500s?
Spain
Portugal
Greece
England
France
Portugal established forts and ports of trade throughout this continent in the late 1400s:
South America
North America
Molucca islands
Africa
Europe
Before the Portuguese and Spanish, these groups of people dominated trade between Europe and Asia in the early 1400s:
Mongols and Aztecs
Arabs and Italians
Greeks and Serfs
Moluccans and Indians
The initial purpose for Christopher Columbus' voyage to the Americas was to:
Discover a new route to the East Indies
Find gold for Spain
Become governor of Cuba
Conquer the Aztec Indians
The Spanish and Portuguese explorers were not very kind to the native people of the Americas. The explorers:
shared their gold and treasures
allowed the native people to keep their lands
tortured and killed the native people
offered Christianity to the native people
By the late 1500s, Spain and Portugal were importing slaves from this continent to help develop their conquered lands:
Asia
Australia
South America
Africa
Europe
These groups of sailing "terrorists" were supported by France and England to target Portuguese and Spanish trading ships from 1500s-1600s:
Pirates
Incas
Maluccas
Conquistadores
What was "encomiendas"?
A type of food grown in the Americas
The way the Spanish traded in markets
The way native people were killed
A king's permission to own slaves
Spanish social classes in the Americas ranged from the highest called the "Peninsulares" to the lowest who were called the "?"
Europeans
Native Americans or Africans
Creoles or Mulattoes
Mestizos
Europeans and native cultures of the Americas mixed over many years of colonization. This animal was brought from Europe into the Americas:
The elephant
The goat
The cow
The horse
