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Ch. World History 4
The Age of Exploration and Absolutism in Europe
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The printing press, the astrolabe, and the new maps were technological advances that contributed to the | c. exploration and overseas expansion of the colonial empires |
| Which was an immediate result of the European Age of Exploration? | b. European influence spread to the Western hemisphere |
| In Latin America during the early period of Spanish colonialism, the deaths of large numbers of the native people led to | a. the importation of slaves from Africa |
| The term “Triangle Trade” refers to | c. The movements of trade goods between three continents |
| What was one effect of the Columbian exchange? | c. The introduction of new foods to both Europe and the Americas |
| Which was a characteristic of the policy of mercantilism followed by Spanish colonial rulers in Latin America? | c. The colonies were required to provide raw materials to Spain and to purchase Spanish manufactured goods |
| Which of the following would be an example of Mercantilism? | a. England taking America cotton to make clothing to sell to the colonists |
| What is circumnavigation and who led the expedition that first accomplished this task? | c. sailing around the world, Magellan |
| Copernicus proposed the | c. heliocentric theory |
| The geocentric theory proposed that | b. the planets and the sun rotated around the earth |
| Tyco Brahe used evidence to prove the theory of | a. Copernicus |
| Keppler was most famous for his discovery that planets | d. travel in ellipses around the sun |
| The Portuguese explorer who first sailed around the southern tip of Africa was… | a. Bartholomew Dias |
| The Spanish explorer who searched Florida for the Fountain of Youth: | b. Ponce de Leon |
| The Spanish began to create colonies in the New World, colonies are… | b. Lands that were controlled by another country |
| This explorer conquered the Incan empire in South America | d. Francisco Pizzaro |
| After many years, natives mixed with the Spanish population and created a class of people known as… | a. Mestizos |
| For what reason did the Puritans and Pilgrams come to the New World? | b. For more religious freedoms |
| A 1754 dispute over land claims in the Ohio Valley led to a war between the French and the British known as the… | e. The French and Indian Ware. The French and Indian War |
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