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WorksheetsExploration of the new world
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 20mins
What were the chief motives for European expansion?
Adventure, travel, and war
Politics, taxes, and war
God, glory, and gold
Oil, gold, and coal
Which country took the lead in European exploration?
Portugal
The Netherlands
England
France
Who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the world?
Bartholomeu Dias
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco da Gama
Which ruler granted encomienda to the Spanish settlers in
the Americas?
Louis XII
Isabella
Ferdinand
Henry VI
Which nation controlled most of the eastern seaboard of
North America by the end of the 1600s?
France
Spain
England
The Netherlands
______were the offspring of Africans and Europeans.
Creoles
Peninsulares
Mestizos
Mulattoes
Spanish conquerors of the Americas were known
as .
viceroys
conquistadors
peninsulares
governor-generals
The system allowed authorities to draft natives to
work in silver mines.
encomienda
feudal
mita
tithe
12. Which of the following is a true statement about colonial
Latin American society?
It had no class system.
.
It was largely Protestant.
it had few peasants.
It was multiracial
15. What caused the most deaths in the Aztec and Inca
populations?
Combat with the Europeans
Human sacrifice
European diseases
Combat with rival cities
