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Explorers Vocabulary
Test Description: This goes along with our lesson about the great world explorers.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Which word means to sail around the world?
A
Commerce
B
Mercantilism
C
Circumnavigate
D
Globe trodder
2) What was the importance of triangular sail?
A
Ships could sail into the wind.
B
Ships could sail backward
C
Ships could travel faster.
D
Steering ship became easier.
3) Which disease was the highly contagious disease that killed millions of Native Americans?
A
Black Plague
B
Smallpox
C
Scurvy
D
Common cold
4) Which instrument was used to determine the location of a ship by observing the posititon of the stars and planets
A
Astrolabe
B
Map
C
Caravel
D
Compass
5) What are the hugh farms called that often required a large labor force to grow crops?
A
Tennat Farmers
B
Share Croppers
C
Subsistant farmers
D
Plantations
6) Which crop is one of the big Cash Crops of the America's?
A
Rice
B
Tobacco
C
Soybeans
D
Corn
7) What is the policy under which nations try to increase their wealth and power?
A
Triangular trade.
B
Cottage Industry
C
Mercantilism
D
Colonialization
8) What is an entrepeneur?
A
A person who makes things in a home rather than a factory.
B
A person who runs a plantation.
C
A person who starts up and takes on the risk of a business.
D
A person who grows cash crops to be sold for a profit.
9) What is another name for the buying and selling of goods?
A
Commerce
B
Astrolabe
C
Mercantilism
D
Cash Crops
10) What is a cottage industry?
A
A crop, such a tobacco, sugar, and cotton, raised in large quantities and sold for profit.
B
A person who starts up and takes on the risk of a business.
C
An instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the position of the stars and planets.
D
Manufacturing based in homes rather than in a factory, commonly found before the Industrial Revolution.
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