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Lesson 2 European Exploration

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.

a)

colony

b)

conquistadors

c)

coureurs de bois

d)

caravel

2.

A Spanish conqueror of the Americas

a)

conquistadors

b)

colony

c)

coureurs de bois

d)

missionary

3.

Crops grown in large amounts to be sold for profit

a)

cash crops

b)

slavery

c)

mercantilism

d)

coureurs de bois

4.

A person who spreads his or her religious beliefs to others

a)

missionary

b)

conquistador

c)

monarch

d)

coureurs de bois

5.

A system of enforced servitude in which some people are owned by other people.

a)

slavery

b)

conquistador

c)

monarch

d)

coureurs de bois

6.

belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

a)

mercantilism

b)

conquistador

c)

cash crops

d)

coureurs de bois

7.

A small, easily steerable ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in their explorations

a)

caravel

b)

conquistador

c)

coureurs de bois

d)

missionary

8.

the three main reasons for the European age of exploration

a)

God, Gold, Glory

b)

Cash crops, mercantilism, monopoly

c)

colony, missionary, gold

d)

God, cash crops, caravel

9.

(runners of the woods) French fur traders, many of mixed Amerindian heritage, who lived among and often married with Amerindian peoples of North America.

a)

coureurs de bois

b)

missionary

c)

conquistadors

d)

caravel

10.

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.

a)

Columbian Exchange

b)

colony

c)

merchantilism

d)

Flea Market