A New World Unit Test

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly from Africa to the Americas, and then their sale there.

Why did the Europeans turn to slave labor during exploration?

• Wanted to show of their strength

• they did not use slave labor

• to find cheap labor to make more money

• the Native Americans told them it would help their crops

What country in Europe is credited with the beginning of the Renaissance?

• England

• Italy

• France

• Spain

What does the term Renaissance mean?

• Rebirth of knowledge and increased art and science

• Redo of old cultures created during the Middle Ages

• Re directory to the ideas of the Catholic Church

• Reconcile differences and make peace with the nomadic Islamic groups of the Middle East

How did the Columbian Exchange change society during exploration

• goods were traveled and traded between Europe and China

• Columbus traveled and vacationed between the old and new world

• Africa was willingly trading supplies to the new world

• goods and resources were traded between the old and new world

Which explorer is credited with discovering America but believed he had found trade routes to India?

• Columbus

• Magellan

• Marco Polo

• Balboa

Once Asian goods were brought to the Mediterranean, Italian city-states controlled the distribution of these goods. However, other European countries wanted to profit from this trade. Other European countries wanted to profit from trade with Asia. They began to search for new trade routes.

The countries in Europe that had explorers were trying to mostly establish trade routes to _______________

• America

• England

• Spain

• India

Germs that brought disease had a huge impact as a result of the Columbian exchange. Europeans brought smallpox and other diseases to the New World

What affects did disease have on the new or old world during exploration

• The Europeans began contracting diseases like small pox

• The native Americans and Europeans already had a tolerance to most diseases

• he native Americans had up to 90% of their population wiped out from disease

• disease did not play a role in the columbian exchange

The colors were generally muted. The Later Middle Ages saw the emergence of Gothic Art and the advances of art in the Middle Ages. During this period artists broke away from the influences of the Byzantium and Romanesque art style. It developed into Gothic and Middle Ages visual art. Which of the following statements BEST explain how Middle Age art is different than that of the Renaissance?

• Art during the Middle Ages focused on Religion while Renaissance art focused ONLY on secular topics

• Middle Age art used bright and brilliant colors while the Renaissance was very dark and gothic

• Renaissance art used ideas of perspective giving the piece depth and the appearance of three dimensions

• Middle Age art focused on the use of humanism and realism to give its characters the essence of reality in the work

Venice Milan & Florence became centers of commerce. Leading merchants & bankers used their wealth to create great cities. Italian cities became centers of trade as Europeans traded with Asia & other regions as a result of the Crusades. As merchants grew more wealthy they used their wealth to support the arts.

All of the following became a cause of the Renaissance EXCEPT...

• Wealthy and powerful merchants became patrons of the arts

• Merchants began trading on the silk road

• City states became rich and powerful

• The Catholic Church gained power from Martin Luther's protests

Italy failed to become united during the Ages. Many independent city-states emerged in northern and central Italy that played an important role in Italian politics and art.

Which of the following is NOT an explanation for why the Renaissance began in Italy?

• Had access to trade routes connecting Europe with Middle Eastern markets

• Rome was conquered and destroyed by Germanic tribes in 410 AD.

• Served as trading centers for the distribution of goods to northern Europe

• Were initially independent city-states governed as republics