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WorksheetsU2: Exploration, Expansion, and Encounter
Total questions: 42
Worksheet time: 21mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
prince of Portugal and patron of exploration who made no voyages himself, but spent his entire life directing voyages of discovery along the African coast
a)
Prince Henry
b)
Bartolomeu Dias
c)
Vasco de Gama
d)
Christopher Columbus
2.
Portuguese explorer who was the first person to reach the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa
a)
Bartolomeu Dias
b)
Prince Henry
c)
Vasco de Gama
d)
Christopher Columbus
3.
Portuguese navigator who in 1497-1499, became the first European to sail around Africa and reach India by sea.
a)
Christopher Columbus
b)
Prince Henry
c)
Vasco de Gama
d)
Bartolomeu Dias
4.
a 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain declaring that newly discovered lands west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal
a)
Dutch East India Company
b)
British East India Company
c)
Treaty of 1494
d)
Treaty of Tordesilla
5.
a company founded by the Dutch in the early 17th century to establish and direct trade throughout Asia
a)
Dutch East India Company
b)
British East India Company
c)
Treaty of 1494
d)
Treaty of Tordesilla
6.
a Chinese dynasty that ruled from 1368 to 1644
a)
Ming Dynasty
b)
Qing Dynasty
c)
Han Dynasty
d)
Tang Dynasty
7.
first emperor of the Ming dynasty in China; drove the Mongols out of China, Korea, and Manchuria
a)
Hongwu
b)
Yonglo
c)
Zheng He
d)
Kangxi
8.
common motivations for exploration by European explorers
a)
God
b)
glory
c)
gold
d)
goodness
9.
Third emperor of the Ming dynasty in China; he ordered the reconstruction of Beijing and made it the new capital of China. He also commissioned an encyclopedia that covered history, philosophy, literature, astronomy, medicine, and numerous other topics.
a)
Yonglo
b)
Kangxi
c)
Zheng He
d)
Hongwu
10.
Admiral, diplomat, and explorer during China’s Ming dynasty; his Chinese fleet visited more than 30 countries.
a)
Zheng He
b)
Kangxi
c)
Yonglo
d)
Hongwu
11.
people, native to Manchuria, who ruled China during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912).
a)
Manchus
b)
Tang Dynasty
c)
Qings
d)
Mings
12.
Chinese emperor of the Qing dynasty from 1661 to 1722; his reign was one of relative internal peace. He constructed many public works and was a patron of the arts.
a)
Kangxi
b)
Zheng He
c)
Yonglo
d)
Hongwu
13.
the art of beautiful handwriting.
a)
caliigraphy
b)
daimyo
c)
kibuki
d)
haiku
14.
a Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai.
a)
daimyo
b)
kibuki
c)
haiku
d)
calligraphy
15.
ambitious Japanese warrior-chieftain who tried, unsuccessfully, to unify Japan under his fierce and violent rule in 1568, thereby signaling the end of the "Warring States" period.
a)
Oda Mobunaga
b)
Tokugawa Shogunate
c)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
16.
Japanese general; he served under Oda Nobunaga and succeeded in controlling much—but not all—of Japan by defeating hostile daimyo; his rule cleared the way for Tokugawa Ieyasu to unify the country in 1603.
a)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
b)
Oda Mobunaga
c)
Tokugawa Shogunate
17.
a dynasty of shoguns that ruled a unified Japan from 1603 to 1867.
a)
Tokugawa Shogunate
b)
Oda Mobunaga
c)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
18.
a type of Japanese drama in which music, dance, and mime are used to present stories.
a)
kabuki
b)
haiku
c)
calligraphy
d)
daimyo
19.
a Japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
a)
haiku
b)
kabuki
c)
calligraphy
d)
daimyo
20.
Italian explorer who sailed for Spain beginning in 1492
a)
Christopher Columbus
b)
Amerigo Vespucci
c)
Ferdinand Magellan
d)
Francisco Pizarro
21.
Italian explorer who sailed for Portugal who traveled along the eastern coast of South America
a)
Amerigo Vespucci
b)
Ferdinand Magellan
c)
Christopher Columbus
d)
Francisco Pizarro
22.
Portuguese explorer who attempted to circumnavigate the globe
a)
Ferdinand Magellan
b)
Amerigo Vespucci
c)
Christopher Columbus
d)
Francisco Pizarro
23.
Aztec emperor who encountered Cortes
a)
Montezuma
b)
Atahualpa
24.
a land controlled by another nation.
a)
colonies
b)
conquistadors
c)
mestizo
d)
encomienda
25.
Spanish conquistador; from 1519 to 1521, he defeated the Aztec Empire, conquering Mexico for Spain.
a)
Hernando Cortes
b)
Francisco Pizarro
c)
Amerigo Vespucci
d)
Ferdinand Magellan
26.
the Spanish soldiers, explorers, and fortune hunters who took part in the conquest of the Americas in the 16th century.
a)
conquistadors
b)
encomienda
c)
colonies
d)
mestizo
27.
Spanish conquistador, conqueror of Peru; founder of Lima, Peru. From 1530 to 1533, he conquered the Inca Empire.
a)
Francisco Pizarro
b)
Ferdinand Magellan
c)
Amerigo Vespucci
d)
Christopher Columbus
28.
last Incan king; he was taken prisoner by Pizarro after refusing to accept Christianity and surrender his empire to the Spanish conquistadors. The Spanish killed him and took control of his empire.
a)
Atahualpa
b)
Montezuma
29.
a person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry.
a)
mestizo
b)
colonies
c)
conquistadors
d)
encomienda
30.
a grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it.
a)
encomienda
b)
colonies
c)
conquistadors
d)
mestizo
31.
the buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas.
a)
Atlantic slave trade
b)
triangular trade
c)
Middle Passage
d)
Columbian Exchange
32.
a system of labor by which a person could work to pay off the cost of coming to the Americas.
a)
indentured servitude
b)
capitalism
c)
joint-stock companies
d)
mercantilism
33.
he transatlantic trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in the Americas.
a)
triangular trade
b)
Atlantic slave trade
c)
Middle Passage
d)
Columbian Exchange
34.
the voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies, and later to North and South America, to be sold as slaves—so called because it was considered the middle leg of the triangular trade.
a)
Middle Passage
b)
Atlantic slave trade
c)
triangular trade
d)
Columbian Exchange
35.
an uprising of Pueblos against the Spanish in 1680, in present-day New Mexico, organized by Pope
a)
Pueblo Revolt
b)
Stono Rebellion
c)
Olaudah Equiano
36.
an uprising of slaves in South Carolina in 1739
a)
Stono Rebellion
b)
Pueblo Revolt
c)
Olaudah Equiano
37.
African who was taken from West Africa in 1762 and sent to the West Indies at age 12
a)
Olaudah Equiano
b)
Pueblo Revolt
c)
Stono Rebellion
38.
the global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred during the European colonization of the Americas.
a)
Columbian Exchange
b)
Atlantic slave trade
c)
triangular trade
d)
Middle Passage
39.
an economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit.
a)
capitalism
b)
joint-stock companies
c)
favorable balance of trade
d)
mercantilism
40.
a business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose, then share the profits.
a)
joint-stock companies
b)
favorable balance of trade
c)
mercantilism
d)
capitalism
41.
an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought.
a)
mercantilism
b)
favorable balance of trade
c)
capitalism
d)
joint-stock companies
42.
an economic situation in which a country sells more goods abroad than it buys from abroad.
a)
favorable balance of trade
b)
mercantilism
c)
capitalism
d)
joint-stock companies
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