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Chapter 13: The Age of Exploration

The Age of Exploration

1
Which of the following did NOT motivate Europeans to begin exploring the world?
A)convert native peoples to Christianity
B)find sources of precious metals
C)find adventure and glory
D)the slave trade
2
Who was the first person to sail from Europe to India and back by way of the Cape of Good Hope?
A)Vasco da Gama
B)Bartholomeu Dias
C)John Cabot
D)Afonso de Albuquerque
3
What did the Treaty of Tordesillas give the Spanish?
A)the right to use Native Americans as laborers
B)rights to almost all of the Americas
C)a route to India by way of the Cape of Good Hope
D)Brazil
4
What were the holders of an encomienda supposed to do?
A)protect Native American workers
B)mine gold and silver
C)harvest sugar cane
D)All of these.
5
What did Africa mainly receive in the triangular trade?
A)tobacco
B)molasses and sugar
C)guns and cloth
D)gold
6
The discovery of the Americas led to a dramatic increase in enslaved people, reaching _____ in the 1700s.
A)2,000
B)275,000
C)1 million
D)6 million
7
The Middle Passage was the name for the route of _____.
A)the manufactured goods traded from Europe to Africa
B)the slave trade from Africa to the Americas
C)the spices traded from India to Europe
D)the tobacco and sugar traded from the Americas to Europe
8
As a result of the slave trade, Benin _____.
A)lost its entire population
B)became culturally devastated
C)adopted European practices
D)appealed to the Society of Friends
9
Which of the following was at the top of the social classes in colonial Latin America?
A)patricians
B)peninsulares
C)plebeians
D)conquistadors
10
Who was appointed to rule New Spain and Peru?
A)Dominicans
B)Governor-generals
C)Jesuits
D)Viceroys
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