Unit 7 (Age of Exploration) World History

Question 1

He was the first to claim that the Americas were a "new world," not part of the Indies...

Accepted Answer

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 2

T or F? The main purpose of creating colonies was economic gain for the "mother country."

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

The first FRENCH colony in the new world...

Accepted Answer

Quebec

Question 4

Who was the first to circumnavigate the globe?

Accepted Answer

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 5

Most powerful of the East India Companies....

Accepted Answer

Dutch East India Company

Question 6

Who landed in San Salvador in 1492 and believed he had found a western route to Asia?

Accepted Answer

Columbus

Question 7

Three way trading network linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas...

Accepted Answer

Triangular Trade

Question 8

Which was NOT a new technology in the "Age of Exploration?"

Accepted Answer

rudder

Question 9

The terrible journey that carried slaves from Africa to the new world...

Accepted Answer

Middle Passage

Question 10

A favorable balance of trade means...

Accepted Answer

selling more goods than you buy

Question 11

Which was NOT an impact of the colonization of the Americas?

Accepted Answer

Decreased trade & more isolationism

Question 12

codex; glyphs; mysterious decline; polytheistic; pyramids; calendars...

Accepted Answer

Maya

Question 13

This empire developed in the Andes Mtns..polytheistic, no written language, capital was Cuzco

Accepted Answer

Inca

Question 14

Cuzco; Machu Picchu; quipa; Andes Mountains; more tolerant...

Accepted Answer

Inca

Question 15

A nation's power depends on wealth (gold, silver & maintaining a favorable balance of trade)

Accepted Answer

mercantilism

Question 16

This civilization developed most advanced writing system in the ancient Americas...had glyphs

Accepted Answer

Maya

Question 17

A Dutch explorer who claimed 3 waterways in northeastern North America...

Accepted Answer

Henry Hudson

Question 18

Meso-American civ...had city-states-ex Tikal & Chichen Itza-pyramids & temples, polytheistic

Accepted Answer

Maya

Question 19

Ancient civilization--most advanced city was Tenochtitlan built in the middle of Lake Texcoco

Accepted Answer

Aztec

Question 20

Whose route was this?

Accepted Answer

da Gama

Question 21

Which was NOT one of Columbus's ships?

Accepted Answer

Merrimac

Question 22

This empire was conquered by Pizarro...

Accepted Answer

Inca

Question 23

One of the main reasons millions of Native Americans died after coming into contact w Europeans

Accepted Answer

diseases like small pox, measles

Question 24

Which of the following was NOT a reason for early European exploration?

Accepted Answer

a faster route to North & South America

Question 25

The first permanent ENGLISH colony in America..

Accepted Answer

Jamestown

Question 26

He supported exploration by funding navigation schools

Accepted Answer

Prince Henry the Navigator

Question 27

Leader of the Aztec people conquered by Cortes...

Accepted Answer

Montezuma II

Question 28

Economic system based on private ownership and the investment of resources to make a profit

Accepted Answer

capitalism

Question 29

Global transfer of people, food, plants, animals, and disease...

Accepted Answer

Columbian Exchange

Question 30

Whose route was this?

Accepted Answer

Dias

Unit 7 (Age of Exploration) World History

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