Download The Age of Exploration Test Multiple Choice: Identify the choice that

The Age of Exploration Test
Multiple Choice: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question
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1.
How did the Renaissance contribute to the Age of Exploration?
A) by emphasizing the importance of converting people to Buddhism
B) by awakening a spirit of discovery and innovation in Europe
C) by fostering a belief in the importance of working as a group
D) by persuading Europeans that the pursuit of wealth was all-important
2.
Which European country was the first to send out Explorers?
A) Spain
B) France
C)
D)
Who started a school in Portugal for sailing, mapmaking, and navigation?
A) John Cabot
B) Christopher Columbus
C) Hernan Cortes
D) Prince Henry “the Navigator”
The ultimate goal of the early Portuguese explorers was to…
A) find a water route around Africa to India.
B) discover new lands.
C) explore the coast of Africa.
D) spread Christianity.
Christopher Columbus set sail to...
A) Find a new, faster trade route to Asia.
B) Find gold in new lands.
C) Spread Christianity.
D) All of the above
3.
4.
5.
England
Portugal
6.
With Spanish dominance in the Southern North America and the Atlantic, at the beginning of the Age of Exploration, France and England
sought a…
A) Land route to Asia.
C) A Northwest Passage
B) A route around the tip of Africa.
D) France and England were not exploring North America.
7.
John Cabot was a(n)…
A) King of England during the Age of Exploration.
B) Explorer working for England who explored North America.
C) Explorer working for Portugal who explored North America.
D) Explorer working for Spain who explored North America.
8.
The goals of the Age of Exploration were…
A) To expand world view.
B) To acquire goods.
C) To Spread Christianity.
D) All of the above.
Spanish explorer Vasco Balboa is credited with…
A) Ending the Aztec Empire in what is now Mexico.
B) Being the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
C)
D)
Finding a Northwest Passage.
Rounding the tip of Africa and making it to India.
C)
D)
Poor maps and navigational tools.
All of the above.
9.
10. Which of the following were obstacles faced by the explorers?
A) Fear of the unknown.
B) Disease and starvation.
11. The expeditions of Conquistadors Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro resulted in the…
A) Destruction of the Aztec and Inca empires.
C) Colonization of North America by Portugal.
B) Capture of Brazil by Portugal.
D) Exploration of the East Indies.
12. Portugal claimed which region of South America…
A) The Andes Mountains, where the Inca Empire lived.
B) What is, today, Brazil.
C) The tip of South America.
D) None of the above.
13. Which route on the map above represents Christopher Columbus’s first voyage most accurately?
14. Which route on the map above represents John Cabot’s last voyage most accurately?
15. Which route on the map above represents Vasco da Gama’s voyage most accurately?
16. Which route on the map above represents Magellan’s voyage most accurately?
17. What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
A) The treaty to help end the 100 Years’ War.
B) The name given for the route to North America.
C) Treaty between Spain and Portugal, giving Spain all land to the West, and Portugal all discovered land to the East.
D) The name of Christopher Columbus’ ship at the time of his Atlantic Crossing
18. Silver, during the Age of Exploration was…
A) Used as money.
B) Used to make navigational tools.
C)
D)
Mined in colonized regions of America.
Both A. and C.
19. Which of the following does NOT accurately describe the life of African slaves in the Americas?
A) Slaves were usually given new names of European origin.
B) Slaves often actively resisted enslavement, either through rebellions or through more minor actions like having their own side-businesses
to earn money for themselves.
C) Slaves were often treated like animals—they were not seen by Europeans as being fully human.
D) Slaves were usually taught to read and write so they could participate in church services.
20. Planters in the Americas began to use African slaves for labor because…
A) Aztecs refused to work on plantations.
B) they believed Native Americans were not human.
C) disease had killed millions of Native Americans.
D) African slaves were less expensive than Native American slaves.
21. The Spanish used captive Africans mostly as…
A) domestic servants.
B) sugar plantation workers.
C) skilled craft workers.
D) ship hands.
22. According to the map titled “The Slave Trade,” where were most slave forts located?
A) The Cape of Good Hope
C) The Middle Passage
B) The west coast of Africa
D) Brazil
23. According to the map titled “The Slave Trade,” the British imported approximately how many slaves to their colonies?
A) 1.7 million
C) 3.6 million
B) 2.1 million
D) 9 million
24. According to the map titled “The Slave Trade,” the greatest number of African slaves were taken to…
A) British North America
C) The British West Indies
B) Brazil
D) The French West Indies
25. Which of the following best describes Mercantilism?
A) Mercantilism is an economic belief that said countries should stockpile money by importing little and exporting a lot.
B) Mercantilism was the economic belief of merchants who travelled the silk road.
C) Mercantilism is an economic system in which countries bought most of their goods from overseas in order to allow their citizens more
freedom.
D) Mercantilism is an economic system in which most people work directly for the government in order to support voyages of exploration.
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