Age of Exploration

The exchange of goods, people, and diseases between Europe, Africa, and the Americas is the ________________?

• Tradism
• Mercantilism
• Capitalism
• Columbian Exchange

What was the primary reason that European explorers had for wanting to explore new land?

• They were searching for an all-water route to Asia to acquire silks and spices.
• They wanted to practice their navigating skills.
• They wanted to spread their religion to Asia.
• They wanted to spread their ideas about government with the Native Americans.

As a result of the Colombian Exchange and contact with Europeans, millions of Native Americans died as a result of what?

• New Foods, which the Native Americans could not  digest
• Religious persecution  from the Spanish Inquisition
• New diseases for which the Native Americans had no natural immunity
• Slavery, and their terrible journey across the ocean

How was Ferdinand Magellan able to prove the Earth was round?

• He circumnavigated the Earth by ship from Spain and back again
• He opened up a school of navigation to educate the people
• He came up with Magellan's Mathematical Equation to prove it
• Christopher Columbus confirmed his theory on his voyage

This famous Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec civilization.

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernan Cortez

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Columbus

This Spanish conquistador conquered the Inca civilization.

• Francisco de Gama

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Franz Ferdinand

• Francisco Pizarro

The country that launched the Age of Discovery was:

• Spain

• England

• Portugal

• France

Trade routes between Africa, the Americas, and Europe, in which ships carried cash crops, manufactured goods, and enslaved people were known as

• Middle Passage

• Columbian Exchange

• Triangular Trade

An economic system used by European countries to gain power by controlling the wealth of colonies

• merchantilism

• smuggling

• Slave Trade

• Middle Passage

Slave Trade across the Atlantic was called this

• duty

• Triangular Trade

• Middle Passage

• Indentured Servants