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SCHS World History Exploration and Scientific Revolution I
SCHS World History Exploration and Scientific Revolution I
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Which statement below was a major motivation for European exploration of new worlds?
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Which of the following statements is true about the Aztecs, Incas, and Maya?
All practiced human sacrifice.
All created extensive road systems.
All had advanced writing systems.
All built large urban centers.
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Modern scientific methods are based on the ideas of
Vesalius and Leeuwenhoek
René Descartes and Francis Bacon
Galileo Galilei
Marie de Coste Blanche
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What was a direct result of the Atlantic Slave trade on West Africa?
Many West African communities faced population losses.
Africans hired Europeans to train their armies.
European industrial factories were built all over Africa
Animism was no longer practiced in Africa.
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Which of the following statements about the Maya is INCORRECT?
skilled astronomers
Maya practiced democracy and there were no social classes
influenced many groups of people in the Americas
built pyramids
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What do the Aztec calendar and the Maya use of zero show about American pre-Columbian cultures?
Population decline from invasion and disease.
Advances in math and science
Conversion to Islam
Extensive trade with Africa
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Which statement best summarizes the excerpt below?
plantation owners’ desire for slaves
negative effects of the slave trade on West Africa
positive effects of the slave trade on the Americas
influence of guns in Africa
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Which word correctly completes this excerpt below, describing Columbian Exchange?
beet
tomato
potato
corn
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Which items from Europe were introduced to the Americas through the Columbian Exchange?
black-eyed peas
tomatoes
horses and pigs
pineapples
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Which of the following led to the Scientific Revolution?
European explorations of the Americas, Asia, and Africa
widespread acceptance of the geocentric theory
the scientific ideas of ancient Greeks
the practice of reasoning from abstract theories
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What was one important effect of the Columbian Exchange?
economic instability in China and Japan
introduction of new foods to both Europe and the Americas
spread of Hinduism into India
rapid decline in European population
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What was the main reason African slaves were transported to the Americas?
The plantation owners wanted cheap labor.
Africans’ agricultural expertise made them desirable.
The Americas offered greater opportunities to the Africans.
Africans were naturally stronger than Europeans.
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Which place is the text referring to?
the Americas
Australia
West Africa
Asia
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What do the steps represent?
heliocentric theory
scientific method
Newton’s laws
Enlightenment ideas
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Which statement about the Inca is correct?
The Spanish converted the Inca to Buddhism.
Inca had a well-developed written language for records
The Spanish never took over the Incan Empire
Like the Romans, they constructed many great roads
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Who combined Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo together under a single theory of motion?
Pythagoras
Isaac Newton
Tycho Brahe
Robert Boyle
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The main reason Hernando Cortés was able to defeat the Aztecs was the-
Aztecs had superior weapons
Spanish carried deadly diseases that spread to the Aztecs
Aztecs had the help of native allies
Spanish greatly outnumbered the Aztecs
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Which of the following statements about the Aztecs in INCORRECT?
The Aztecs sacrificed humans to please the Sun-god
Montezuma was the ruler when the Spanish conquered them
Aztecs were nomadic and couldn't be conquered
The Aztec capital was Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City
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The Scientific Revolution brought about many changes, including a vaccine to prevent
smallpox
pneumonia
malaria
cowpox
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Two causes of the Scientific Revolution are shown. What is another cause?
traditional church teachings
the geocentric theory
invention of the printing press
the ideas of Aristotle and Ptolemy
