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100

In this image, the servants represent the colonies because:

1. they are only inhabited by enslaved people.

2. the colonies are socially less important than the mother country.

3. the job of the colonies is to supply the mother country with resources.

4. they are allowed to trade with anyone, which is why they're carrying trays.

3. the job of the colonies is to supply the mother country with resources.

100

The __________ Passage was part of the Triangular Trade route.

  1. Secret

  1. Northwest

  1. Enslaved

  1. Middle

4. Middle

100

The Spanish Empire’s monopoly to import enslaved people to their American colonies.

1. devshirme

2. Potosi

3. encomienda

4. asiento

4. the asiento

100

The system of chattel slavery in the Age of Exploration was different from other forms of slavery because __________.

  1. enslaved people were treated like animals.

  1. enslaved people were tied to the land they worked.

  1. enslavement was a form of punishment, like prison.

  1. enslaved people usually stayed close to their home communities.

  1. enslaved people were treated like animals.

150

Which part of the map had the most enslaved people arrive from Africa between 1650 and 1860?

1. Peru

2. Europe

3. the Caribbean

4. Brazil

4. Brazil

150

Only the enslaved African Americans in __________ were able to achieve population growth on their own; everywhere else in colonial America required new enslaved people to be imported to replace those that died.

  1. Dutch Indonesia

  1. Spanish Peru

  1. Portuguese Brazil

  1. British North America

4. British North America

150

New World food crops like __________ eventually helped to feed billions of people in Old World countries like Senegal, China, and Japan.

  1. rice

  1. sweet potatoes

  1. sunflowers

  1. lentils

2. sweet potatoes

150

The Ottoman Empire’s devshirme was a system of enslavement where __________.

  1. Christian boys were taken and converted to Islam, then trained to be elite soldiers or government officials.

  1. Slavic people were purchased from Vikings in exchange for silver.

  1. Ottoman merchants purchased enslaved Africans to sell in Spanish America.

  1. enslaved people were settled on land in a process called hutting, and if the land was sold they went with it.

1. Christian boys were taken and converted to Islam, then trained to be elite soldiers or government officials.

200

Which of the following is not an New World food:

  1. peppers

  1. onions

  1. tomatoes

  1. avocados

  1. corn

  1. black beans

2. onions

200

Explorers like the Conquistadors went out into the world looking for the “three G’s”: God, Gold, and __________.

  1. Gore

  1. Ginger

  1. Glory

  1. Grace

3. Glory

Glory was a combination of upholding your own honor and that of your overlords and homeland, and also of the search for fame and remembrance by future generations.

200

Today, the island archipelago of the Caribbean is sometimes called the “West Indies” because __________.

Columbus thought he’d reached the (East) “Indies.” The mistaken name stuck.

200

The Treaty of Tordesillas divided the world between __________ and __________.

1. Britain; Spain

2. Spain; Portugal

3. France; Russia

4. Germany; Italy

2. Spain; Portugal

250

Europeans began looking for ocean-going routes to the Indies to avoid __________.

  1. competition from Chinese merchants

  1. the Black Death

  1. trading with Muslim states, like the Ottomans

  1. being attacked by Vikings

  1. trading with Muslim states, like the Ottomans

250

Diseases like __________ and __________ killed up to 90 percent of the indigenous Native American population after European's arrived.

1. malaria; syphilis 

2. syphilis; whooping cough

3. smallpox; whooping cough

4. lung cancer; syphilis

3. smallpox; whooping cough

250

__________, __________, and __________ are all examples of Old World plants or animals. 

  1. Avocados, sheep, horses

  1. Wheat, rice, cows

  1. Potatoes, tomatoes, corn

  1. Turkeys, peas, grapes

2. Wheat, rice, cows

250

During the Middle Ages, the __________ people of Eastern Europe gave their name to the English word for “slave” because they were enslaved by the __________ and sold to the Islamic empires in the Middle East in exchange for tens of thousands of silver coins.

  1. Slavic; Vikings

  1. African; Portuguese

  1. Balkan Christian; Ottoman Empire

  1. Germanic; Romans

1. Slavic; Vikings

300

Christopher Columbus is important to world history because he __________.

created the first permanent link between the "Old World" of Africa and Eurasia, and the Americas (the "New World").

300

The English Royal African Company traded __________ between West Africa and Spanish America.

  1. enslaved people

  1. silver

  1. sugar

  1. muskets

1. enslaved people

300

For a country during the Age of Exploration, the goal of mercantilism was to __________.

  1. promote free trade among different countries.

  1. encourage private investment by merchants.

  1. export more than you import.

  1. use all your precious metals to buy trade goods.

  1. export more than you import.

300

Portuguese explorer Barlomeu Diaz was the first European to __________ while his fellow countryman __________ was the first European to reach India entirely by sea.

  1. round the southern tip of Africa; Vasco da Gama

  1. round the southern tip of Africa; Hernan Cortes

  1. explore the mainland Americas, Vasco da Gama

  1. Explore the mainland Americas, Hernan Cortes

1. round the southern tip of Africa; Vasco da Gama