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WorksheetsAge of Exploration Pretest
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which is not one of the three reasons Europeans explored?
a)
God
b)
Gas
c)
Gold
d)
Glory
2.
What country sponsored Christopher Columbus?
a)
Spain
b)
England
c)
Italy
d)
Portugal
3.
Where did Columbus first take foot in the New World?
a)
Florida
b)
Virginia
c)
Bahamas
d)
New York
4.
What is an astrolabe?
a)
A tool that helped sailors use the sun and stars to find their location.
b)
A small, fast ship.
c)
A tool that shows which direction is North.
d)
None of the above.
5.
A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.
a)
racism
b)
colony
c)
mercantalism
d)
ethnocentric
6.
A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease.
a)
epidemic
b)
encomienda
c)
missionary
d)
imperialism
7.
Capturing or taking something by force.
a)
conquest
b)
global
c)
columbian exchange
d)
epidemic
8.
How did many Native Americans die during the Exploration?
a)
They died from war.
b)
The conquistadors starved them
c)
Smallpox and other diseases
d)
Drowning in ships
9.
_ controlled the Native Americans for labor.
a)
Monarchs
b)
Explorers
c)
Missionaries
d)
Conquistadors
10.
Why did the encomienda system fade away.
a)
It was too expensive for explorers
b)
Native Americans died from hard work and diseases
c)
Missionaries thought that it was a sin
d)
The Native Americans fought back against Spain
11.
The exchange of goods, people, and diseases between Europe, Africa, and the Americas is the ________________?
a)
Tradism
b)
Mercantilism
c)
Capitalism
d)
Columbian Exchange
12.
How did diseases impact the New World?
a)
They didn't
b)
They wiped out 75-90% of the Europeans
c)
They wiped out 75-90% of the indigenous people
d)
They helped the natives beat the Spanish
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