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European Exploration, Colonization, and Imperialism Test
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SS6H6 The student will analyze the impact of European exploration and colonization on various world regions.
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Identify the causes of European exploration and colonization; include religion, natural resources, a market for goods, and the contributions of Prince
Henry the Navigator.
Trace the empires of Portugal, Spain, Great Britain, and France in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Trace the colonization of Australia by Great Britain.
Explain the impact of European empire building in Africa and Asia on the outbreak of WWI.
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1. ____ Imperialism
2. ____ Exploration
3. ____ Circumnavigate
4. ____ Mercantilism
5. ____ Colonize
6. ____ Prince Henry
7. ____ Da Gama
8. ____ Dias
9. ____ Magellan
10. ____ Pizarro
11. ____ Cortes
12. ____ Columbus
13. ____ conquistador
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To travel completely around something…such as the world
To go and find new places (Think Dora )
He set up a school for navigation in Portugal…but he never set sail himself.
The idea of taking natural resources, such as cotton, from the colonies, shipping it across the ocean
back to Europe where all the manufacturers were, making something, like cloth or clothes, and
selling back to the colonies for a nice profit.
This Portuguese sailor reached the tip of Africa in 1488.
In 1492 this guy sailed the ocean blue…In 1493 he sailed across the deep blue sea! In the name of
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain…oh yeah…he was Italian.
The practice of a large country taking over a smaller country that have important natural resources.
This was the Spanish conquistador that took over the Aztec people by killing their leader
Montezuma.
to send a group of settlers of a nation to establish political control over the land and the indigenous
(native) people of that area
This Portuguese sailor sailed around Africa and finally reached India in 1498.
This was the Spanish conquistador who took over the Incan civilization by first imprisoning their
ruler Atahualpa.
This is a fancy name for a Spanish explorer who took over large native populations through
conquest.
m. This man circumnavigated the globe by going from his home port in Portugal west around South
America and then across around India, south of Africa and back home.
I can explain the three main reasons why Europeans explored and colonized.
14. Tell me the three G’s
AND tell me why they were motivating factors in European exploration and
colonization. (There are two questions here! If you only answer one you are not getting it right!)
15. What were some achievements
AND obstacles during this time period? (List 3 achievements AND 3
obstacles)
16. What was the Line of Demarcation? (Treaty of Tordisillas) Need to include: Who made this line, Who was it
made for, What did it do, and Who got the better deal?
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Why did the explorers travel by sea, rather than land to reach Asia?
Living on boat was easier than traveling over land
The Ottoman Turks taught the Spanish and Portuguese how to build boats
The Ottoman Turks prevented people from passing through their lands
The Great European Horse Plague made it difficult to travel by land
I can describe how exploration and colonization fueled the imperialism of Africa and Asia.
18. What does more land = more wealth = more power mean? (these are your answers from this question by the
way)
a. It means more land gives them the money to buy more land with
b. It means if you have land you have gold and you have to have gold because they didn’t have checks back
then to pay bills with
c. It means the more natural resources you have the more products you can make with them and sell back to
make even more wealth and that means you have more power than the other countries around you
d. It means the countries were competing for all the land and that made them greedy for the resources there
and so to become more powerful they took over lands and that made them wealthy.
19. What does the quote “The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire” mean? (In your answer you should say
something about the reach of the British Empire)
20. How did the mercantilism, the triangular trade and colonization bring about the imperialism of Africa and Asia?
(This is directly from our class activity)
21. What was the Scramble for Africa? (You should be able to tell me the main countries involved. How many
countries were actually involved? What the conference was called. And why they chose to do this to Africa and
then Asia.)
S6H6
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Trace the empires of Portugal, Spain, Great Britain, and France in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Trace the colonization of Australia by Great Britain.
Use the map above to describe the location of the empires of Portugal, Spain, England, and France.
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Great Britain –
Portugal –
Spain –