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Age of exploration test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Identify three reasons why Europeans went exploring? | Gold-wabted riches of Asia/Glory-wanted to became famous/God-wanted to spread Christianty |
| What was the importance of the astrolabe to explorers? | Explorers used it to fix positions of latitude. |
| the word circumnavigation refers to: | to travel around with a ship in a circle around the world beginning and ending in the same place. |
| Which two European countries were the first to explore new lands? | Spain/Portugal |
| What were three different advancements in technology which enabled the Age of exploration to occur? | new maps/compass/changes in ship design |
| This became the slogan of Age of Exploration/ | God Glory Gold |
| His expedition was the first to circumnavigate the world, proving the world was round. | This was Ferdinand Magellan |
| Who was the English sea dog who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the earth? | Francis Drake |
| He was seen as a god by the native Americans of Mexico. He went to Tenochtitlan and conquered the Aztecs. | Hernado Cortez |
| Who sailed west to go to the East,thus discovering the Western Hemisphere. | Christopher Columbus |
| Who went to the Andes and by trickery and force conquered the Incas? | Francisco Pizarro |
| Who was the first European explorer to reach India by going around the tip of Africa? | Vasco da Gama |
| Who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the earth? | Francis Drake |
| What event encouraged the Atlantic nations to look for new maritime trade routes to the east? | Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks |
| The french explorer who claimed Canada for France was | Jacques cartier |
| Europeans began to explore to answer the demand for what three products? | Gold/spices/Natural resource |
| Europeans explored the great unknown areas of the world because | There were trying to find gold and trade goods |
| Which explorer is credited with bringing back word of the existence of a new world to the majority of Europeans? | Christopher Columbus |
| What was the effect of Europe's expanding economies? | Trade with Asia was stimulated |
| Which monarch sent out expeditions to explore the coast of Africa and established a school to train explorers in the art of navigation? | Prine Henry |
| What does indigneous mean? | native |
| A non-economic motive for exploration was | spread the Christian faith |
| What was the Main goal of European missionaries in the New World? | to convert idigenous people to Christianity |
| What effect did the desire to spread Christianity have on world events? | More exploration took place |
| Who was the first to capture the Africans and trade them into slavery? | The Portuguese |
| What happened to the native economies and cultures of Asia,Africa, and the Americas as a result of the Age of Exploration? | They were almost completely destroyed by the Europeans |
| Where did the Spanish place themselves in the new society of the Americas? | Trading posts to do business with the idigenous people |
| What was the first thing explorers did when they found land previously unknown to Europeans? | They claimed it for their country and gave the land a European name. |
| what were three results of European exploration? | Large numbers of native Americans died of disease./Africans were captured and sold into slavery in the Americas/Europeans took American crops back to Europe and grew them there. |
| The Spanish destroyed what empires in LAtin America? | Aztec and Inca |
| The colonies in _____ imitated the social patterns of their parent country. | America |
| Trading posts in Asia were established by which three European nations? | Portugal/England/Netherlands |
| What was the legacy left by the spanish on new societies in Latin America? | rigid class system |
| What group was the first to establish colonies in Asia? | Merchants |
| Which major Asian country was never colonized by European merchants? | Japan |
| What group was forced to migrate to the Americas? | Africans |
| Identify three ways in which the indigeneous people of the Americas were affected by European colonization. | They died of European disease/their riches were taken from them/They became slaves to the Europeans |
| What is joint-stock company? | allowed merchants to pool their money and share the risk of financing voyages of discovery |
| What were three new products that were brought to the"Old World" after 1492? | Corn/potatoes/tobacco |
| Identify three different ways in which the Columbian Exchange impacted the world. | A shortage of labors to grow cash crops led to using African slaves/slavery was based on race/new foods and products were introduced to Europe and the americas |
| The exchange of new products and resources between the Eastern and Western hemispheres was called | The Columbian Exchange |
| What items were brought to the New World from europe | Maize |
| In the 1500's the need for cheap labor in the american colonies led to | The imporation of Africans as slaves |
| What was the impact of European diseases like smallpox on the American Indians? | Killed millions |
| Slavery was based on what in the Americas? | race |
| what kind of conditions did enslaved Africans experience during their voyage to the Americas? | They were forced to work long hours on the ships at the most dangerous jobs |
| What goods moved most frequently from the Americas to Europe? | Sugar and tobacco |
| What was traded most frequently from Africa to the Americas? | slaves and gold |
| What happened to Spain as a result of the importation of gold and silver from the americas into their economy? | It experienced high inflation which eventually led to its decline |
| To what continents were precious metals exported in such great quantities that is caused inflation? | Europe and Asia |
| The Europeans established a trade pattern between Africa, The Americas, and Europe which became known as | The Triangular trade |
| The Middle Passage refers to the | journey of enslaved people from Africa to the Americas |
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