WH Spring Semester Final Review

What motivated Europeans to explore and colonize the Western Hemisphere in the 16th century?

• Economic opportunity

• Political revolutions

• Population explosion

Which of the following is a cause that led to longer journeys during 16th century exploration?

• The invention of the printing press

• New ideas about democracy

• New navigational instruments

What philosophy was the dominant view in the field of economics during the Age of Exploration?

• Free trade

• Mercantilism

• Communism

Which of the following statements fits the beliefs of mercantilism?

• Economic competition between countries is good

• There is a limited amount of gold and silver in the world

• The government shouldn't have a role in growing the economy

The movement of diseases, plants, animals, and people that occurred after 1492 is referred to as—

• The columbian exchange

• The silk road

• The global network

The British and the Dutch made effective use of what new type of economic organization?

• Community-owned businesses in which people participated democractically

• Free market capitalism & Open competition between businesses

• Joint-stock companies such as the British East India Company

Which of the following is NOT a factor that contributed to Hernando Cortes’ victory over the Aztecs?

• Europeans inadvertently infected the Aztecs with smallpox which weakened their civilization

• Aztec weapons were no match for European technologies

• Because the Aztecs lived on an island they were vulnerable to attack from the Spaniard's vessels

Which of the following was a motivator for Hernando Cortes sailing to Mexico?

• Cortes had been challenged by Pizarro to be the first to find an allwater route to Mexico

• Gold and silver were thought to have been in surplus in Mexico, so Cortes set out to find it

• European architects paid Cortes to visit the Aztec pyramids and study their methods of building

Which of the following would best serve as a title for the map above?

• Destinations of Enslaved Africans in the Atlantic Slave Trade

• Journey of Europeans to New Colonies known as the Great Migration

• Movement of luxury goods between the Old and New Worlds

Which number on the map above shows the location of the Aztec Empire in pre-Columbian times?

• Location 1

• Location 2

• Location 3