Explorers
Economy
Life
Peoples
Miscellaneous
100
This man was credited with sailing around the world
Magellan
100
What is mercantilism?
A system where a country gains power by exporting more goods than they import.
100
The inhumane voyage of slaves across the Atlantic ocean was called the
Middle Passage
100
What is the key difference between Creoles and Peninsulares.
Peninsulares were born in Europe.
100
The Columbian Exchange began after this explorer made trips to the Americas. Who is this explorer?
A. Hernando de Soto
B. Leif Eriksson
C. John Cabot
D. Christopher Columbus
D. Christopher Columbus
200
This explorer, discovered America for Europe, and made four successful voyages to modern day Cuba.
A. Christopher Columbus
B. Ferdinand Magellan
C. Bartholomew Dias
D. Francisco Pizarro
A. Christopher Columbus
200
The most valuable commodity for the Spanish in the Americas?
A) minerals like silver and gold.
B) sugar and rum.
C) tobacco.
D) furs.
E) timber.
A) minerals like silver and gold
200
Why did Europeans switch from enslaving Native Americans for forced labor to importing slaves from Africa?
A. It was too expensive for explorers
B. Native Americans died from hard work and diseases
C. Missionaries thought that it was a sin
D. The Native Americans fought back against Spain
B. Native Americans died from hard work and diseases
200
Why did Creoles resent Peninsulares?
Peninsulares resented Creoles because they had more power despite the fact that they were both European
200
What cause many Native Americans to die during the time of the Columbian Exchange?
A. Diseases
B. Spoiled Food
C. Spoiled Meat
D. War with Europeans
A. Diseases
300
Conquered Incan Empire and established Lima Peru
Francisco Pizarro
300
A system in which the Spanish king gave Spanish settlers the right to the labor of the Native Americans who lived in a particular area
A. Caravel
B. Middle Passage
C. Encomienda
D. Settlement
C. Encomienda
300
What role did Africa play in the Atlantic Slave Trade?
Some west African societies captured and enslaved other Africans in order to sell them to European traders for manufactured goods.
300
What is the difference between the mestizos and mulattos?
What they were mixed with--African or Native American
300
Due to the new goods that were brought over, the Columbian Exchange also led to this terrible practice
A. War
B. Removal of Native Americans
C. Diseases
D. Slave trade
D. Slave trade
400
Sleek ships that could carry large loads long distances
Caravel
400
What is the term that refers to the relationship between Europe, Africa, and the Americas in which slaves were traded for raw goods or money?
A. Mercantilism
B. Triangular Trade
C. Middle Passage
D. Atlantic Slave Trade
B. Triangular Trade
400
What were the purpose of viceroys?
Viceroys enforced the rules and laws of the monarchy.
400
What group of people held the highest positions?
Peninsulares.
400
Conquistadors is a Spanish word meaning:
A. to entrust
B. to connect
C. court
D. conquerors
D. conquerors
500
In 1497, who found a water route to Asia by rounding the tip of Africa and landing on India's southwest coast?
A. Henry the Navigator
B. Dias
C. Vasco da Gama
D. Columbus
C. Vasco da Gama
500
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Exchange of different plants, animals, diseases between the New and Old World.
500
What languages did the Europeans force the Natives to learn?
Spanish and Portuguese.
500
Put the following groups of people in the the correct social order.
African and Native slaves, creoles, mestizo, peninsulares, mulatto
Peninsulares
Creoles
Mestizo
Mulatto
African and Native slaves
500
Which of these items did the Europeans bring to the New World?
A. potatoes
B. corn
C. peanuts
D. horses
D. horses