9 Weeks Test

1. The image shows an exchange of culture and lifestyles between Europe and the Americas. What was this called?

• Columbian Passage
• Columbian Exchange
• Columbian Exports

2. Columbus and his men enslaved many of the native people and treated them with extreme violence and brutality

• True
• False

3. What was one negative effect of the Columbian Exchange?

• Native Americans used European horses to become better hunters.
• International trade grew.
• European diseases killed many Native Americans.

4. What did Christopher Columbus die believing?

• That the Earth was flat
• That he had found a new continent
• That he had found a sea route to Asia/India
• That he had circumnavigated the globe

5. Why did the Native American population decrease during the time of the Columbian Exchange?

• more animals were attack them in their villages
• diseases, such as smallpox, was carried over from Europe
• Native Americans started a war with the Europeans

6. Who were the first people to settle in North America?

• Pilgrims
• Native Americans (choose this one)
• The British
• American Colonists

7. An explorer who landed in the New World and was convinced that he found a sea route to Asia. He died believing this was true.

• Prince Henry the Navigator
• Bartolomeu Dias
• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand Magellan

8. This half of the world includes North and South America.

• Eastern Hemisphere
• Western Hemisphere
• Prime Meridian

9. This half of the world includes Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

• Eastern Hemisphere
• Western Hemisphere
• Southern Hemisphere

10. This was a ship that could sail more closely to the wind.

• Longship
• Caravel
• Astrolabe
• Iron ship