Chapter 7 Section 3 multiple choice

Question 1

______ also known as the navigator, was largely responsible for portugal’s interest in exploration

Answer 1

Prince Henry

Question 2

Bartolomeu Dias sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, at the southern tip of _____ in 1488

Answer 2

Africa

Question 3

Bartolomeu Dias and ______ made an overseas route from Europe to India and the East Indies available

Answer 3

Vasco da Gama

Question 4

Christopher Columbus believed that a shorter route to Asia could be found by sailing ____ from Spain, instead of around Africa.

Answer 4

Westward

Question 5

_______ made an overland crossing of the isthmus of Panama and proved that the new world was not part of Asia.

Answer 5

Vasco Nunex de Balboa

Question 6

the ______ moved the imaginary line drawn from north to south in the middle of the Atlantic and settled the Spanish and Portuguese conflict over new lands.

Answer 6

Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 7

the _____ allowed products, plants, animals, and diseases to travel between the Western and Eastern hemispheres

Answer 7

Columbian Exchange

Question 8

the middle passage was a part of a system known as ______, which exchanged cotton goods and weapons for slaves, slaves for plantation goods, and plantation goods for manufactured goods.

Answer 8

the triangular trade.