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WorksheetsExploration and Expansion 2020/2021
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 5hrs 0mins
How were the Spanish conquistadors able to conquer the New World?
They prayed for the Native Americans.
They used advanced weapons to overwhelm Native Americans.
They became friends and traded goods with the Native Americans.
They paid them gold to work building colonies for them.
The exchange of raw materials, manufactured goods, people, and diseases between Europe, Africa, and the Americas is the ___________.
Tradism
Capitalism
Mercantilism
Columbian Exchange
Who was responsible for establishing Spain's claim in the New World?
Prince Henry the Navigator
Henry Hudson
Sir Francis Drake
Christopher Columbus
What was the primary reason that European explorers crossed the Atlantic to the west?
They were searching for an all-water route to Asia to acquire silks and spices.
They wanted to practice their navigation skills.
They wanted to spread their religion to Asia.
They wanted to spread their ideas about government to other areas of the world.
As a result of the Columbian Exchange and contact with Europeans, millions of Native Americans died as a result of what?
New foods, which the Native Americans could not digest.
Religious persecution from the Spanish Inquisition.
New diseases for which the Native Americans had no natural immunity.
They didn't die, they fled their homes.
Who sponsored Portuguese fleets that sailed along the western coast of Africa?
Prince Henry the Navigator
Queen Isabella
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
How was Ferdinand Magellan able to prove the Earth was round?
He circumnavigated the Earth by ship from Spain and back again.
He came up with Magellan's Mathematical Equation to prove it.
He opened up a school of navigation to educate the people.
Christopher Columbus confirmed his theory on his voyage.
This famous Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec civilization.
Francisco Pizzaro
Hernan Cortez
Amerigo Vespucci
Christopher Columbus
This Spanish conquistador conquered the Inca civilization.
Francisco de Gama
Ferdinand Magellan
Franz Ferdinand
Francisco Pizarro
Trading that involved shipping goods from Europe to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves, these slaves being shipped to the West Indies and exchanged for sugar, rum, and other commodities; which were in turn shipped back to Europe.
Continental trade
Triangular trade
Capitalism
Mercantilism
Spanish colonization of the Americas resulted in the death of millions of Native Americans from overwork, disease, and mistreatment.
True
False
The ultimate goal of the early Portuguese explorers was to
find a water route around Africa to India.
discover new lands.
explore the coast of Africa.
spread Christianity.
The ultimate goal of early English, Dutch, and French explorers was to
find a passage to Asia by cutting across North America.
colonize North America.
find a short southern route to Africa.
find gold and silver in the Americas.
"The stench of the hold... was so intolerably loathsome, that it was dangerous to remain there for any time... The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate... almost suffocated us... The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole scene of horror almost inconceivable."
- Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiana, 1789
In the passage by Olaudah Equiano, he describes
plantation life
indentured servitude
a slave ship
an encomienda
Some Native Americans helped Cortes overthrow the Aztecs because
they wanted to gain trade with the French.
they had intermarried with Spanish explorers.
the Aztecs were unpopular with smaller tribes due to fear of being killed.
they had been converted to Christianity.
Planters in the Americas began to use African slaves for labor because
Aztecs refused to work on plantations.
they believed Native Americans were not human.
disease had killed millions of Native Americans.
African slaves were less expensive than Native American slaves.
Before the Age of Exploration, the flow of luxury goods to Europe from China and India was controlled by ______________ merchants.
Italian (later Islamic)
Africa
conquistador
Spanish
Between 15 and 20 million Africans were shipped to the Americas against their will.
True
False
Some enslaved Africans coped with inhumane conditions by trying to keep their cultural traditions alive.
True
False
Although Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippines, the remainder of his crew were the first to ___________________, or sail completely around, the globe.
conquistador
circumnavigate
encomienda
convert
