Age of Exploration - Test Review

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Who were the Mayans?

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Mesoamerican Empire

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What was a colony?

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Location where explorers would settle to claim land as their own.

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What religion did Spain follow at the time of North American conquest?

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Catholicism

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A widespread infectious disease is a(n) _.

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Pandemic

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What was NOT a reason for the downfall of the Mesoamerican Empires? Options: Invasion of the Conquistadors, Outmatched by technology, European diseases, Piracy

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Piracy

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Conquistador

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Spanish crusaders

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Where did Christopher Columbus land?

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Carribbean

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What year did Christopher Columbus sail to the Americas?

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1492

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The name of the slave trade that occurred between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

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Trans-Atlantic

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The name of the process in which new goods, diseases, and items were traded and exchanged from the New World and the Old Worlds.

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Columbian Exchange