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Which Venetian explorer's accounts of his travels to Asia encouraged exploration?
Marco Polo Giovanni de Verrazano
Giovanni Caboto Christopher Columbus
Marco Polo
Where did Vasco da Gama explore?
Newfoundland
the eastern coast of North America
the eastern coast of Africa
Caribbean islands
the eastern coast of Africa
What name was given to the system of land and labor grants that the Spaniards set up to encourage settlers in their newly conquered lands?
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encomiendas
haciendas
Tordesillas
conquistadores
encomiendas
Which explorer did not visit North America?
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Ferdinand Magellan
Giovanni da Verrazano
Jacques Cartier
Henry Hudson
Ferdinand Magellan
Emerald Green
What tools did navigators use to know where they were and where they were going?
hull and caravel astrolabe and magnetic compasshourglass and sextant lateen and knots
astrolabe and magnetic compass
Although Pedro Alvares Cabral set sail for India, where did he accidentally end up reaching first?
North America
Java
Who was the Spanish missionary who tried to end the enslavement of Indians?
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Hispaniola
Las Casas
Pizarro
Balboa
Las Casas
What body of water did Vasco Núñez de Balboa reach with Francisco Pizarro?
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the Indian Ocean
the Pacific Ocean
the Straits of Magellan
the Panama Canal
the Pacific Ocean
What did Henry Hudson accomplish?
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He sailed up a river into what is now New York State and also found a huge inland sea in Canada.
He sailed up the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
He bought Manhattan Island from Native Americans.
He found a Northwest Passage across northern Canada.
He sailed up a river into what is now New York State and also found a huge inland sea in Canada.
Who provided leadership for Portuguese exploration in the 1400s?
Vasco da Gama Prince Henry the Navigator
Bartolomeu Dias Pedro Alvares Cabral
Prince Henry the Navigator
Where did Christopher Columbus make landfall on his first voyage?
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the East Indies
the Bahamas
Cape of Good Hope
Virginia
the Bahamas
Where are the Straits of Magellan?
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where the Panama Canal is now
at the opening of the Mediterranean Sea
near the southern tip of South America
between the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway
near the southern tip of South America
Which trade got France interested in building colonies in the land called New France?
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slave trade
sugar plantations
fur trade
tobacco industry
fur trade
What was the Middle Passage?
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the journey of enslaved Africans from the market to the plantations where they worked
the journey around the Cape of Good Hope on the way to the Indian Ocean
the journey through the Straits of Magellan on the way to the Pacific Ocean
the journey of enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas
the journey of enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas
What landmark was Bartolomeu Dias the first European to reach?
Straits of Magellan Northwest PassageTasmania Cape of Good Hope
Cape of Good Hope
Why did Columbus call the people he encountered "Indians"?
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It was the Spanish word for strangers.
They looked like people he had seen in India.
That is the name they called themselves.
He thought he had reached the East Indies.
He thought he had reached the East Indies.
What was the first English colony in North America?
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Plymouth
Jamestown
Roanoke Island
Massachusetts Bay
Roanoke Island
Who was the first European to sail up the Atlantic coast of the present-day United States?
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Christopher Columbus
Sir Francis Drake
Henry Hudson
Giovanni da Verrazano
Giovanni da Verrazano
Who were the first Europeans to reach the Mississippi River?
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Verrazano and Hudson
Sieur and La Salle
Marquette and Jolliet
Champlain and Cartier
Marquette and Jolliet
What important route did Dias's discovery lead to?
a westward route to the Spice Islands
a polar route to the Americas
a route to the Indian Ocean
a path around South America
a route to the Indian Ocean
What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?
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divided the western hemisphere into North and South America
legalized the slave trade
divided the land in the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal
divided the land in the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
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Jamestown, Virginia
Elizabeth, New Jersey
Victoria, Canada
New Amsterdam, New York
Jamestown, Virginia
Which North American area did Jacques Cartier claim for France?
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Louisiana
Canada around Montreal
the Great Lakes
the Mississippi River
Canada around Montreal
Which country took over the Spice Trade after Portugal weakened?
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England
France
Spain
the Netherlands
the Netherlands