Unit 3 European Exploration CP Test

To test new technology

To acquire wealth, get personal glory, and to spread Christianity

To break the Portuguese monopoly on trade

To gain extra land for a growing population

The new trading routes led to an economic boom for Native Americans

Europeans enslaved Native Americans, who became a long-term source of labor

European diseases had a devastating effect on the native population, killing 95% of them

Native Americans and Europeans peacefully integrated, creating combined societies

Finding a westward route to the Americas

Finding a direct sea route around Africa to the Indian Ocean

Obtaining West African gold, ivory, and salt

Initiating African slave trade

It weakened European powers

It had no impact on the Ottoman Empire

It made the Ottoman Empire more powerful

It decreased the power of the Ottoman Empire

It awakened a spirt of discovery and innovation in Europe

It fostered a belief in the importance of working as a group

It emphasized the importance of converting people to Buddhism

It persuaded Europeans that the pursuit of wealth was all important

Native societies experienced rapid population growth

Europeans nations lost power and prestige in the New World

Large numbers of natives migrated to Europe for a better life

Plantations in the New World used enslaved Africans to replace native population

To work as slaves on plantations

To trade with Native Americans

To spread Islam

To start new colonies

A long period of peace and prosperity for the nations of Western Europe

Extensive migration of people from the Western Hemisphere to Europe and Asia

The fall of European national monarchies and the end of the power of the Catholic church

The end of regional isolation and the beginning of a period of European global domination

The Spanish were able to field larger armies than the Aztecs

The Spanish were able to exploit discontent within the Aztec state to trigger a revolt of the lower classes against the Aztec ruling class

The Spanish were able to form military alliances with other indigenous peoples who were enemies of the Aztecs

The Spanish were able to devise effective countermeasures to the horse cavalry that formed the bulk of the Aztec army

The Chinese used fewer and smaller ships

The Chinese covered shorter distances

Chinese exploration was designed to establish a military presence

Chinese exploration gained strength after the mid-1430s

The larger and more technologically superior fleets that the Europeans could muster in the 15th century

Europeans had a greater capacity for overseas expansion than the Chinese did at the same time

There was more incentive and long-term support among Europeans for exploration and overseas trade

Importance of the support of the scholar-gentry for maritime voyages in China

The Spanish established permanent settlements to control the maximum amount of geography.

The Spanish sought riches and treasures.

The Spanish migrated south looking for hunting grounds.

The Spanish established farming colonies to have products to import.

French settlements supported explorers looking for treasures.

French settlements were temporary.

French settlements consisted of large family groups.

French settlements were always surrounded by farm land.

The process of building a nation through mutual agreements between neighbors.

The amount of exports compared to the amount of imports a nation has

The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.

commercial economy

Mercantilism

Monopoly

The Chinese took over trade routes.

The price of spices went down for Europeans.

Muslims were not able to buy spices.

The price of spices went up for Europeans.

One that was based soley on religion.

One that accepted different cultures and was religiously tolerant.

One of bigotry and intolerance.

One that required all people to conform to a certain set of ideals.

Charlestowne

Roanoke

Jamestown

Johnstown