2.3 Quiz

Why did Portugal search for new trade routes to Asia along the African coast?

• The journey from Portugal to Asia was shorter along the African coast.

• The Portuguese hoped to learn about trade routes from African merchants.

• Portugal did not have a port on the Mediterranean Sea and had to find another way to Asia (India).

Which explorer was most responsible for making Portugal the “marketplace of Europe”?

• Vasco da Gama

• Marco Polo

• Christopher Columbus

What is one way in which Columbus’s explorations impacted the Americas?

• Native peoples of the Americas quickly adopted European lifestyles.

• Native peoples of the Americas largely abandoned their territory to live in Europe.

• Native peoples of the Americas began losing control of their lands.

What is one reason Spain’s monarchs supported Christopher Columbus’s explorations?

• They hoped to launch a new crusade against Islam.

• They wanted to spread Protestantism to Asia.

• They wanted to find new markets for Spanish goods.

How did Amerigo Vespucci’s voyages impact European knowledge of the world?

• Europeans learned that many wealthy civilizations lived in the Americas.

• Europeans accepted that there was no direct western route to Asia.

• Europeans recognized that South America was a continent, not part of Asia.

What was the purpose of the Treaty of Tordesillas?

• It divided claims in the Americas between Spain and Portugal.

• It gave Portugal complete control of the African slave trade.

• It ended a war between Portugal and England over control of North America.

How did Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro manage to conquer the Aztec and Inca?

• The Spanish had weapons and animals that the Aztec and Inca had never seen.

• Cortés received help from some native people who were willing to overthrow their harsh rulers.

• Cortés and Pizarro brought with them diseases that made the Aztec and Inca very sick.

• All are correct.