Test 1 Age Of Exploration

Question 1

Which European country was the leader in developing and applying 15th century sailing innovations?

Answer 1

Portugal

Question 2

How did Prince Henry of Portugal influence exploration?

Answer 2

He brought together map makers, mathematicians, and astronomers to study navigation, and he also sponsored many explorations going to the Atlantic or around the African coast.

Question 3

What was the purpose of the Treaty of Tordesillas signed by Portugal and Spain?

Answer 3

To move the line of demarcation further west so Portugal would have more land.

Question 4

Bartolomeu Dias captained the first European ship to sail what route?

Answer 4

The Cape of Good Hope (around the southern tip of Africa)

Question 5

What did Vasco da Gama succeed in gaining for Portugal?

Answer 5

He proved that it was possible to trade with India past the Cape of Good Hope.

Question 6

The Line of Demarcation established a boundary between which two regions?

Answer 6

Spain and Portugal

Question 7

Who conquered the Aztec empire?

Answer 7

Hernan Cortes

Question 8

As part of the Columbian Exchange, which of the following was carried west across the Atlantic to the Americas?

Answer 8

Wheat, grapes, livestock, horses, bananas, coffee, tea, sugarcane, ivory, silk, and perfume.

Question 9

Which city was originally founded as a settlement by the Dutch?

Answer 9

Manhattan

Question 10

Name the four reasons that the Spanish were able to conquer the Aztecs.

Answer 10

1. Horses 2. Disease 3. Weapons 4. Natives

Question 11

What was one result of the loss of native lives to disease?

Answer 11

Spain decided to take Africans as slaves instead of the natives because they were too weak for their environment.

Question 12

How did Bartolemé de Las Casas affect race relations in the Americas?

Answer 12

Caused the move that led to the adoption of slave labor from Africa.

Question 13

According to the balance of trade, how could a nation increase its wealth?

Answer 13

Sell more goods than they bought.

Question 14

Where did Christopher Columbus believe that he had landed?

Answer 14

He believed that he had found the route to Asia and landed on islands off of India.

Question 15

Why was it difficult to keep a candle lit in the cargo hold?

Answer 15

There wasn’t enough oxygen.

Question 16

Columbus promised gold to the first sailor to see land in order to prevent what from happening?

Answer 16

Resistance from the other sailors.

Question 17

What was the name of the native girl who helped Cortes?

Answer 17

Malinali

Question 18

How were sharks affected by all of the people thrown over the side of the slave ships?

Answer 18

They changed their feeding habits to follow the oceanic trade routes.

Question 19

What did Bartholomeu Dias sail around?

Answer 19

The southern tip of Africa.

Question 20

How did Prince Henry the Navigator get his nickname?

Answer 20

The many voyages he sponsored to the New World and beyond.

Question 21

What is the term describing the practice of overfilling a slave ship with captives?

Answer 21

Tight pack

Question 22

What was the Columbian Exchange?

Answer 22

The transfer of products from continent to continent.

Question 23

What did Ferdinand Magellan attempt to do?

Answer 23

Sail around the world.

Question 24

What role did African society play in the Atlantic Slave Trade?

Answer 24

The Africans turned each other in as slaves in exchange for goods and weapons.

Question 25

What three things motivated the Spanish Conquistador?

Answer 25

Money, land, Christianity.

Question 26

How does a joint-stock company work?

Answer 26

They sold stock, or shares, in the venture enabling large or small investors to share the profits and risks of a trading voyage.

Question 27

The 'New World' was renamed after which explorer?

Answer 27

Amerigo Vespucci.

Question 28

What is the Middle Passage?

Answer 28

The segment of travel between Africa and the Americas.

Question 29

Who introduced the grid system to map making?

Answer 29

Ptolemy.

Question 30

Which culture invented the magnetic compass?

Answer 30

Chinese.

Question 31

What is mercantilism?

Answer 31

The theory that a state's power depended on its wealth.

Question 32

What was the name of the first permanent English settlement in North America?

Answer 32

Jamestown.

Question 33

What was the main cause of the decrease of the native population in the Americas?

Answer 33

The African slaves came to the plantation and drove the natives from the land.

Question 34

Which explorer was the first to sail around the southern tip of Africa to India?

Answer 34

Vasco da Gama.

Question 35

Name the first European country to explore the Atlantic Ocean in search of a sea route to Asia.

Answer 35

Spain.

Question 36

Who conquered Atahualpa and the Inca Empire?

Answer 36

Francisco Pizarro.

Question 37

Which early European explorer is the first to sail around the southern tip of South America?

Answer 37

Ferdinand Magellan.

Question 38

Who inspired the Age of Exploration by recruiting sailors to search for a water route to the eastern spice trade areas?

Answer 38

Columbus / rulers of Spain.

Question 39

Which early European explorer was the first to see the Pacific Ocean and name it the South Sea?

Answer 39

Vasco Nunez De Balboa.

Question 40

Name three improvements to navigation during the early Age of Exploration.

Answer 40

1. Lateen sail 2. Multiple masts 3. Stern rudder 4. Astrolabe 5. Better maps 6. The grid system.

Question 41

During the Atlantic Slave trade, which group made up the majority of kidnapped African individuals?

Answer 41

African men.

Question 42

What would the kidnapped Africans do to avoid being taken to the Americas on a slave ship?

Answer 42

They would jump overboard.

Question 43

Name three ways that kidnapped Africans were treated by their captors.

Answer 43

They were inspected, spoken of, and sold like livestock.

Question 44

What was African society like before the start of the Atlantic Slave Trade?

Answer 44

They had trade structures, family structures, history was important, and they had universities.

Question 45

Name three ways that the African Slave Trade negatively impacted African society.

Answer 45

African populations began to diminish. Africans turned on each other and enslaved each other. Messes up the trade of African products.

Question 46

Name three ways that Malinali helped Cortes.

Answer 46

She helped Cortes by communicating with foreigners and local tribes. She explained Aztec culture and showed him around the area. She was Cortes’ translator.

Question 47

Name three ways that women were treated on the slave ship.

Answer 47

They were allowed to have baths. They were beaten. They were sexually assaulted.

Question 48

When was a slave 'mutiny' most likely to take place during the Middle Passage?

Answer 48

In the beginning because they were closer to get back home.

Question 49

What happened to the enslaved Africans after they arrived in the New World?

Answer 49

They were forced to be inspected and sold to work.