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Chapter 12 Age of Exploration and Trade Study Guide

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the agreement that divided the Americas between Spain and Portugal?

(a)  

2.

The expeditions of these 2 men resulted in the destruction of the Aztec and Inca empires (Pick two)

a)

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

b)

Hernan Cortes

c)

Christopher Columbus

d)

Francisco Pizarro

3.

This was a negative result of exploration...

a)

The Treaty of Tordesillas

b)

Overseas Exploration

c)

Disease

d)

Water route to Asia

4.

A result of the Commercial Revolution was...

a)

more overseas exploration

b)

Trading Posts

5.

According to the theory of this, colonies should be acquired as markets and sources of raw materials.

a)

circumnavigate

b)

Quebec

c)

Mercantilism

d)

Commerce

6.

The main motive behind the expeditions at the beginning of the Age of Exploration was...

(a)  

7.

By the 1400s, only this country had found a water route to Asia

(a)  

8.

Native Americans who ruled the empire in Peru

a)

Inca

b)

Maya

c)

Aztec

9.

Catholic missionaries who taught Christianity to Native Americans

a)

Monk

b)

Priests

10.

During the 1500s, Spanish conquistadors explored as far north as what is now present-day...

a)

Montreal

b)

California

c)

Quebec

d)

Florida

11.

A fur-trading post established by Samuel de Champlain in New France

(a)  

12.

Germs that caused disease helped this man defeat the Aztec

a)

Francisco Pizarro

b)

Ferdinand Magellan

c)

Christopher Columbus

d)

Hernan Cortes

13.

To go completely around something, such as the world

(a)  

14.

Without enslaved Africans, Brazil most likely would not have become one of this country’s most profitable overseas territories

(a)  

15.

During the 1600s, this country was interested in setting up fur-trading posts in North America

(a)  

16.

Which of these events happened first?

a)

Columbus claimed San Salvador for Spain

b)

Magellan sailed around South America into the Pacific Ocean

c)

Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesilla

d)

Europeans found a water route to Asia

17.

Which of these happened last?

a)

Europeans found a water route to Asia

b)

Columbus claimed San Salvador for Spain

c)

Magellan sailed around South America into the Pacific Ocean

d)

Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas