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Exploration of the new world

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What were the chief motives for European expansion?

a)

Adventure, travel, and war

b)

Politics, taxes, and war

c)

God, glory, and gold

d)

Oil, gold, and coal

2.

Which country took the lead in European exploration?

a)

Portugal

b)

The Netherlands

c)

England

d)

France

3.

Who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the world?

a)

Bartholomeu Dias

b)

Christopher Columbus

c)

Ferdinand Magellan

d)

Vasco da Gama

4.

Which ruler granted encomienda to the Spanish settlers in

the Americas?

a)

Louis XII

b)

Isabella

c)

Ferdinand

d)

Henry VI

5.

Which nation controlled most of the eastern seaboard of

North America by the end of the 1600s?

a)

France

b)

Spain

c)

England

d)

The Netherlands

6.

______were the offspring of Africans and Europeans.

a)

Creoles

b)

Peninsulares

c)

Mestizos

d)

Mulattoes

7.

Spanish conquerors of the Americas were known

as .

a)

viceroys

b)

conquistadors

c)

peninsulares

d)

governor-generals

8.

The system allowed authorities to draft natives to

work in silver mines.

a)

encomienda

b)

feudal

c)

mita

d)

tithe

9.

12. Which of the following is a true statement about colonial

Latin American society?

a)

It had no class system.

.

b)

It was largely Protestant.

c)

it had few peasants.

d)

It was multiracial

10.

15. What caused the most deaths in the Aztec and Inca

populations?

a)

Combat with the Europeans

b)

Human sacrifice

c)

European diseases

d)

Combat with rival cities