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Indigenous Cultures/Age of Exploration

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What Native American Cultural Group is # 5

a)

Arctic

b)

California

c)

Southeast

d)

Southwest

2.

What Native American culture group is #7?

a)

Great Plains

b)

Eastern Woodlands

c)

Northwest Coast

d)

Great Basin

3.

What Native American culture group is #6?

a)

California

b)

Arctic

c)

Plateau

d)

Northwest Coast

4.

What Native American Culture Group is #3?

a)

Plateau

b)

Great Plains

c)

Arctic

d)

Eastern Woodlands

5.

What Native American Culture Group is #1?

a)

California

b)

Great Basin

c)

Northwest Coast

d)

Southwest

6.

What Native American Culture Group is #4?

a)

Southeast

b)

Eastern Woodlands

c)

Great Basin

d)

Northwest Coast

7.

Which Native American Culture group is #2?

a)

Plateau

b)

Southwest

c)

Great Plains

d)

Great Basin

8.

What is Native American Culture Group #8?

a)

Southwest

b)

Northwest Coast

c)

Southeast

d)

Arctic

9.

What Native American Culture Group is #9?

a)

California

b)

Subarctic

c)

Great Plains

d)

Arcitc

10.

Sailed farther, faster & could navigate in shallow water...

a)

classical

b)

technology

c)

caravel

d)

astrolabe

11.

Why did Europeans explore?

a)

in search of new peoples to enslave

b)

in search of a new god

c)

looking for god, gold, and glory

d)

nothing better to do

12.

The Treaty of Tordesillas was between what two countries?

a)

Spain and Portugal

b)

Portugal and France

c)

France and Spain

d)

Italy and Portugal

13.

What country supported Columbus's voyages?

a)

Italy

b)

Portugal

c)

Spain

d)

The Americas

14.

Which of the following is NOT a place Columbus landed?

a)

San Salvador

b)

Cuba

c)

Jamacia

d)

India

15.

Whose crew was the first to circumnavigate the world?

a)

Magellan

b)

Columbus

c)

Da Gama

d)

Cabral

16.

Before Columbus, most European explorers traveled in what direction to get to Asia?

a)

North

b)

West

c)

South

d)

East

17.

A Spanish Explorer is a...

a)

Native American

b)

Indigenous person

c)

conquistador

d)

colonizer

18.

A village of apartment style home made of adobe and rising 4-6 stories tall.

a)

Ranch

b)

Colonial

c)

Pueblo

d)

teepee

19.

Hernan Cortes destroyed the powerful empire of the?

a)

Inca

b)

Olmec

c)

Aztec

d)

Maya

20.

This man and his army conquered the Inca empire in Peru...

a)

Francisco Pizarro

b)

Atuhualpa

c)

Hernan Cortes

d)

Montezuma

21.

Juan Ponce de Leon landed on the mainland of North America in search of?

a)

food

b)

his countryman

c)

the fountain of youth

d)

slaves

22.

Nearly 300 million Native Americans died within 50 years of Christopher Columbus's landing because of..

a)

overcrowded conditions

b)

exposure to heat

c)

starvation

d)

disease

23.

a person native to a certain land

a)

indigenous

b)

slave

c)

native america

d)

citizen

24.

A settlement in a distant region, governed by the home country

a)

town

b)

trade center

c)

colony

d)

caravel

25.

What was the result of interactions of West Africa and European traders?

a)

the Africans adopted European languages and customs

b)

the traders took gold from the Africans leaving them in extreme poverty

c)

the traders began transporting enslaved Africans to work on plantations in the Americas

d)

the Africans accepted European religious beliefs and became part of mission communities

26.

the kidnapping of West Africans transported to the Americas for forced unpaid labor.

a)

indentured servitude

b)

Columbian exchange

c)

prison

d)

slavery

27.

Helped sailors navigate better and was used to find the latitude of a ship at sea

a)

Astrolabe

b)

Caravel

c)

Sonar

d)

Compass

28.

improvement to ships that allowed sailors to sail in any direction they wanted.

a)

Astrolabe

b)

lateen sail

c)

Magnetic compass

d)

caravel

29.

What disease did the Europeans bring over to the Americas?

a)

Chicken Pox

b)

Covid-19

c)

Smallpox

d)

leprosy

30.

A disease that was caused by a lack of vitamin C

a)

scurvy

b)

smallpox

c)

measles

d)

covid-19

31.

What country was NOT a major participant in the age of Exploration?

a)

Portugal

b)

Spain

c)

Greece

d)

France

32.

What country was Jacques Cartier from?

a)

France

b)

Spain

c)

Austria

d)

England

33.

Which Native American civilization lived in Central Mexico and fought with Hernan Cortes

a)

Aztecs

b)

Maya

c)

Taino

d)

Iroquois

e)

Inca

34.

Which Native American civilization lived in upstate New York and built longhouses?

a)

Aztecs

b)

Maya

c)

Inca

d)

Taino

e)

Iroquois

35.

Which Native civilization lived in Guatemala and were accomplished astronomers and mathematicians?

a)

Aztecs

b)

Maya

c)

Inca

d)

Taino

e)

Iroquois

36.

Which of the following was NOT an effect of European exploration in the New World?

a)

Colonization

b)

Atlantic Slave Trade

c)

Aztec Empire

d)

Columbian Exchange

37.

small, fast ship used by Spanish and Portuguese explorers for long journeys

a)

Caravel

b)

Astrolabe

c)

Lateen Sail

d)

Magnetic Compass

38.

a tool used to measure the latitude of a ship at sea

a)

Caravel

b)

Astrolabe

c)

Lateen Sail

d)

Magnetic Compass

39.

a triangular sail at an angle of 45 degrees to the most

a)

Caravel

b)

Astrolabe

c)

Lateen Sail

d)

Magnetic Compass

40.

a navigational tool which points north

a)

Caravel

b)

Astrolabe

c)

Lateen Sail

d)

Magnetic Compass