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Unit 2 Explorers Test
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Question 1
1.
How did travel by sea change by the 1400's?
A. It became much cheaper.
B. It became more dangerous.
C. It was limited to the Atlantic Ocean.
D. It was improved by new technologies.
Question 2
2.
Which of the following was NOT a goal of European exploration?
A. finding new trade routes.
B. controlling new lands.
C. ending the Reconquesta.
D. establishing colonies.
Question 3
3.
Name two present-day cities founded by the Dutch.
A. New York and Albany
B. Boston and Albany
C. Buffalo and New York
D. New Amsterdam and Fort Orange
Question 4
4.
Which countries claimed land in the Americas?
A. Spain, Portugal, Russia and China
B. the Netherlands, Sweeden, Spain, France, China
C. Spain, Germany, France, Belgium
D. Spain, Portugal, France, England, the Netherlands, Sweeden and Russia
Question 5
5.
Colonists often built settlements near the sea or along rivers because
A. their charters required this location
B. this offered protection against attacks
C. the weather was usually better
D. it made transporting people and supplies easier.
Question 6
6.
Why did European traders begin to travel to Asia by sea?
Question 7
7.
Name two tools that improved sailing AND explain why they were important.
Question 8
8.
What was the Northwest Passage?
Question 9
9.
Name the areas that each of the following countries settled in the New World: Spain, France and Portugal.
VOCABULARY
Directions
: Write the correct vocabulary word under the definition from the word bank below.
Spelling counts so type it correctly!!!
Word Bank
settlement convert charter emperor circumnavigation slavery mission
tributary reform colony cartographer navigation magnetic compass longitude
expedition entrepreneur astrolabe trading post
Question 10
10.
a tool that shows north
Question 11
11.
to change
Question 12
12.
a long and organized trip
Question 13
13.
a person who starts a business
Question 14
14.
an area ruled by a distant country
Question 15
15.
a tool that sailors use stars and the sun to find their way
Question 16
16.
a place set up by a relgious group to teach native people
Question 17
17.
a person who makes maps or charts
Question 18
18.
a science used by sailors to find their place and place their route
Question 19
19.
a place to trade goods
Question 20
20.
the practice of owning people and making them work without pay
Question 21
21.
when a river flows into a larger river or lake
Question 22
22.
to change someone's relgious beliefs
Question 23
23.
a place to live set up in a new area
Question 24
24.
the act of sailing around something
Question 25
25.
a distance north or south of the equator, measure in degrees
Question 26
26.
the ruler of an empire
Question 27
27.
an official document from an authority to do something
Question 28
28.
a distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees