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WorksheetsChapter 12 Age of Exploration and Trade Study Guide
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 13mins
What was the agreement that divided the Americas between Spain and Portugal?
(a)
The expeditions of these 2 men resulted in the destruction of the Aztec and Inca empires (Pick two)
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Hernan Cortes
Christopher Columbus
Francisco Pizarro
This was a negative result of exploration...
The Treaty of Tordesillas
Overseas Exploration
Disease
Water route to Asia
A result of the Commercial Revolution was...
more overseas exploration
Trading Posts
According to the theory of this, colonies should be acquired as markets and sources of raw materials.
circumnavigate
Quebec
Mercantilism
Commerce
The main motive behind the expeditions at the beginning of the Age of Exploration was...
(a)
By the 1400s, only this country had found a water route to Asia
(a)
Native Americans who ruled the empire in Peru
Inca
Maya
Aztec
Catholic missionaries who taught Christianity to Native Americans
Monk
Priests
During the 1500s, Spanish conquistadors explored as far north as what is now present-day...
Montreal
California
Quebec
Florida
A fur-trading post established by Samuel de Champlain in New France
(a)
Germs that caused disease helped this man defeat the Aztec
Francisco Pizarro
Ferdinand Magellan
Christopher Columbus
Hernan Cortes
To go completely around something, such as the world
(a)
Without enslaved Africans, Brazil most likely would not have become one of this country’s most profitable overseas territories
(a)
During the 1600s, this country was interested in setting up fur-trading posts in North America
(a)
Which of these events happened first?
Columbus claimed San Salvador for Spain
Magellan sailed around South America into the Pacific Ocean
Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesilla
Europeans found a water route to Asia
Which of these happened last?
Europeans found a water route to Asia
Columbus claimed San Salvador for Spain
Magellan sailed around South America into the Pacific Ocean
Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas
