WorksheetsExploration, Mesoamerica, and Enlightenment
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 16mins
What type of ship enabled explorers to sail longer distances and carry more cargo?
Steamship
Astrolabe
Spanish Galleon
Destroyer
European voyages of discovery resulted from the advances and inventions from what revolution?
Industrial Revolution
American Revolution
French Revolution
Scientific Revolution
The idea that the sun is the center of the universe.
Heliocentric Theory
Geocentric Theory
Hawkins Theory
Aristotle Theory
Who was the first European explorer to circumnavigate the entire world?
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Amerigo Vespucci
Hernando Cortez
Which one of the following was NOT one of the three G's of exploration?
God
Gold
Glory
Galleon
Mercantilism is when a colony supplies ______ to the mother country.
finished products
raw materials
slaves
religious converts
What was the encomienda system?
an individual who tries to convert people to Christianity
colonies that supply raw materials to mother country
a treaty between Spain and Portugal dividing up newly discovered lands in the Americas
A system that enslaved native Americans to perform labor for Spain
What is the difference between Direct Democracy in Athens and the Republic in the United States?
In Athens, each citizen votes on the laws, and in the U.S., citizens vote on representatives who make the laws for them.
In Athens, men and women had the right to vote, in the U.S., only women have the right to vote.
In Ancient Athens, both men and women had to serve in the military, in the U.S., only the men are required to register for the military.
In Athens, only women are allowed to vote, in the U.S., both men and women vote directly on the laws.
How were the Spanish conquistadors able to easily conquer the Aztecs and the Inca?
They had better crops
They had better weapons
They had better shoes
They had better hats
What caused the downfall of the Aztec Empire?
The Aztec leaders fought over control of the capital
They had to many human sacrifices causing the population to decrease
Hernando Cortez brought war and disease to the Aztecs
The environment of South America limited the amount of crops they were able to grow.
What was the major difference between how the Spanish and the French ran their colonies?
Spain built a friendship with the native Americans, while the French enslaved the natives to help them build their colonies.
Spain and Portugal built a friendship with the native Americans
The French were only concerned with collecting gold
The French built friendships with the native Americans, while Spain enslaved natives to work for them.
What did the English colonies provide the mother country?
Finished goods
Textiles
Manufactured goods
Raw goods
What were the European explorers looking for when they conquered the American civilizations?
The Silk Road
Books and Art
Gold and trade routes
The Cape of Good Hope
Click on two answers below that show how the Scientific Revolution impacted the Age of Exploration.
New inventions allowed European explores to sail around the world.
The realized that the world is flat.
The began to believe that the Earth is the center of the universe.
The Europeans explorers found new continents that helped them to have a better understanding of the world
Why did Hernando Cortez order the destruction of the Aztec statues and temples? choose two
He wanted to make room for a new Aztec football stadium
He did not like that the Aztecs were making human sacrifices to their gods.
He wanted to spread the religion of Christianity
He was afraid of the Aztec gods
What best describes land colonized by Spanish explorers?
Asia
Australia
North and South America
Antarctica
What area best describes where England colonized?
South America
North America
Asia
Southwest Asia
What was the main purpose of the French exploration?
Trade and the spread French Culture
Spread the religion of Islam
Silver
Spread the religion of Buddhism
Which of the following achievements did not belong to the Maya?
365 day solar calendar
developed the concept of zero
developed a hieroglyphic writing system
aqueducts
When Tenochtitlan became overpopulated & they needed more food/land for their growing population, what did the Aztecs do?
They drained the lake around the city
They built more chinampas
They relocated the city
The Aztec people moved to Spain
Which is NOT a way the Inca kept their vast empire united?
They developed a system of writing
The made a quipu for keeping track of the population
They built sacred rope bridges
They built around 14,000 miles of roads
What was the name of the Spanish explorer that conquered the Inca Empire?
Ferdinand Magellan
Juan Ponce de Leon
Hernando Cortez
Francisco Pizarro
What were the three G's of Spanish Exploration? pick three
God
Gold
Glory
grapes
Which Enlightenment thinker believed that the right to rule comes from the consent of the people?
Montesquieu
Hobbes
Locke
Rousseau
What is the main reason the United States government is different than the democracy of Ancient Athens?
Athens did not have an electronic voting system so they could not have a republic
Athens population was much smaller, so a democracy was easy, the U.S. population is much larger, so a republic works better
Athens and the U. S. have the same type of government
Athens is a monarchy and ruled by a king and the U.S. is a oligarchy
Pick two positive impacts of the Columbian Exchange.
Old World = Europe
New World = Americas
The new world provided raw materials for the old world.
The new world provided manufactured goods to the old world.
The old world spread diseases to the new world
The old world brought livestock to the new world.
Pick two negative impacts of the Columbian Exchange.
Old World = Europe
New World = Americas
The old world provided livestock for the new world.
The old world brought diseases to the new world
The new world provided raw materials for the old world
The development of slave trade from Africa to the Americas
Which Enlightenment thinker came up with the idea of a social contract between the government and the people?
Hobbes
Rousseau
Montesquieu
Locke
What was the name of the Enlightenment thinker that believed that all people had natural rights. The right to life, liberty, and property.
Montesquieu
Hobbes
Voltaire
Locke
Which Enlightenment thinker influenced Thomas Jefferson in his writings of the Declaration of Independence.
Rousseau
Locke
Hobbes
Voltaire
