Exploration, The Americas And Colonization Quiz

Question 1

The desire for spices and other trade goods was a direct cause of
A. American expansion into Africa and Asia.
B. Asian expansion into the Americas and Europe.
C. African exploration of the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
D. European exploration and colonization of the Americas, Africa, and Asia.

Answer 1

D. European exploration and colonization of the Americas, Africa, and Asia.

Question 2

Which route represents the path taken by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

Answer 2

C. 3

Question 3

“They (the Aztecs) have a most horrid and abominable custom which truly ought to be punished…and this is that, whenever they wish to ask something of the idols, in order that their plea may find more acceptance, they take many girls and boys and even adults, and in the presence of these idols they open their chests while they are still alive and take out their hearts and entrails and burn them before the idols…Some of us have seen this, and they say it is the most terrible and frightful thing they have ever witnessed.”

Hernan Cortes
Letter to Charles V, 1520

The accuracy of this account could be questioned because
A. it was written long after the Aztecs has become extinct.
B. it was written by someone who had never seen the Aztecs.
C. Charles V was conspiring with the Portuguese to take over Aztec lands.
D. Cortes’s bias against the people he is to conquer could influence this story.

Answer 3

D. Cortes’s bias against the people he is to conquer could influence this story.

Question 4

Which route represents the path taken by the European explorer Christopher Columbus?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

Answer 4

B. 2

Question 5

All of these were inspirations for 15th Century European exploration of the Western Hemisphere EXCEPT
A.
B.
C.
D.