Unit 2 Test

Advances in navigation technology and the desire of Europeans to obtain goods from Asia are most closely associated with the

• Rise of feudalism

• Age of Exploration

• Agricultural Revolution

• Age of Reason

In the late 1400s and early 1500s, what was a major reason for the European voyages of exploration?

• Introduction of Enlightenment ideas

• Desire to control Constantinople

• Rapid industrialization

• Need for alternate trade routes

The journeys of Vasco da Gama, Christopher Columbus, and Bartholomeu Dias became possible in the late 1400s because of the

• Support of exploration by the English government

• Trade connections established by Ibn Battuta

• Effects of the Atlantic slave trade

• Development of new navigational instruments and technology

Which situation is illustrated in these statements?

·         Smallpox outbreak spreads throughout Mexico

·         Many Incas convert to Christianity in ceremonies in Lima, Peru

·         Cortes brings Aztec gold and silver treasures to Spain

• Empathy of Europeans for Native Americans

• Triangular trade and its effects on agrarian economies

• Relatively high costs of colonialism

• Impact of contact between different peoples

After contact with Europeans in the 1500s, millions of native peoples in Americas died as a result of

• New foods, which the native peoples could not digest

• Religious persecution resulting from the Spanish Inquisition

• New diseases to which the native peoples had no natural immunity

• Slavery and the terrible conditions on their sea journey to Europe

Which statement explains the long-term significance of travels of Christopher Columbus

• His interactions with the Native Americans served as a model for fair treatment of minorities

• His ships were the first to complete an all around-the-world voyage

• His calculations of the distance between Europe and Asia became the basis of modern maps

• The end of regional isolation and the beginning of a period of European global domination

During the 15th century, which two European countries began sea voyages of exploration?

• Germany and Italy

• Portugal and Spain

• England and France

• Russia and Netherlands

A major result of the European Age of Exploration is

• A long period of peace and prosperity of the nations of western Europe

• Extensive migration of people form the Western Hemisphere to Europe and Asia

• The fall of European national monarchies and the end of the power of the Catholic Church

• The end of regional isolation and the beginning of a period of European global domination

Which nation had the most influence on the colonization of Latin America in the 1500s?

• Spain

• France

• England

• Netherlands

Which famous author wrote Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth?

• Shakespeare

• Da Vinci

• Michelangelo

• Machiavelli