Unit 3 European Exploration Honors Test

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Draggable item		Corresponding Item
English		New Amsterdam, East Indies
Portugal		New York, Jamestown, India, Australia, 13 Colonies
Spain		Quebec, Montreal, Louisiana Territory
Dutch		Central and South America, Philippines
France		Brazil, Coastal African colonies

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
mestizos		born in Spain, held highest positions of power.
mulattos		children of peninsulares, but they were born in the colonies.
slaves		children of native and Spainish parents.
peninsulares		children of Spanish and African parents.
natives		brought from Africa to work on plantations
creoles		used for cheap labor, forced to adopt European ways

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Henry Hudson		financed Columbus’ voyages.
Amerigo Vespucci		English explorer, went up the from New York up the Hudson River into the what is now Canada.
Jacques Cartier		Spanish explorer first European to cross the Isthmus of Panama and reach the Pacific Ocean in 1513.
Prince Henry the Navigator		Helped Pizzaroconquer the Inca and then explored areas from Florida to Mississippi.
Vasco de Gama		Portuguese prince who started a school of navigation that allowed ship captains, map makers and sailors to share information of their voyages.
Ferdinand Magellan		Catholic priest who fought for the rights of native people and wrote about the poor treatment of natives.
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain		1491-1577 discovered Canada for the French, mapped the St. Lawrence River
Hernan Cortes		1476-1541 conquered the Inca for Spain
Vasco Nunez de Balboa		1485-1547 conquered the Aztecs for Spain
Christopher Columbus		1460-1524 sailed for Portugal, found a route around the southern tip of Africa to India
Bartolome de la Casas		Italian navigator, hired by Spain to find a route to India, found the New World, thought it was India
Hernando de Soto		Italian cartographer, sailed for Spain, realized the Americas were the new world and not India
Francisco Pizzaro		credited with being the first to circumnavigate the world (sailed for Spain, was actually from Portugal)

Unit 3 European Exploration Honors Test

Unit 3 European Exploration Honors Test

Which economic system would you impose on your colonies if you were the founder of your colony, mercantilism or capitalism? Explain why and be sure to give examples.

What were Europeans main motives for making voyages of exploration?

What effect did the arrival of Europeans have on the native populations?

What was Prince Henry the Navigator’s primary goal in sponsoring naval expeditions?

What did the discovery of alternate trade routes to Asia affect the Ottoman Empire?

How did the Renaissance contribute to the Age of Exploration?

Which statement best describes a result of the encounter between Europeans and native populations in Latin America?

Why did European traders send Africans to the Americas?

Which of the following was a major result of the Age of Exploration

Which of the following was the most important factor enabling the Spanish to defeat the Aztec Empire?

How did Chinese exploration in the Indian Ocean compare to that of the Europeans

A comparison of maritime voyages of the Europeans in the late 15th and 16th centuries with the voyages of China’s Zheng He illustrates which of the following?

According to the passage, how did Spanish goals in the Americas differ from the English?

What was the difference between French and English settlements?

Match the country to the appropriate set of colonies

Which description most closely defines colonization?

This is the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.

Mercantilism involves all of the following:

What was the result of Portuguese control of the Indian Ocean spice trade?

Which of the following were part of the native experience under the Spanish?

What kind of culture was established in New Amsterdam?

England and the Netherlands each allowed joint-stock companies to operate in Asia. What powers did the joint-stock companies have?

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

Match the Spanish Colonial Class system to the right descriptions.

Which economic system would you impose on your colonies if you were the founder of your colony, mercantilism or capitalism? Explain why and be sure to give examples.