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Test Description: Exploration
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1) In what year did Columbus sail the ocean blue?
A
1491
B
1493
C
1492
D
1494
2) What is another name for the Line of Demarcation?
A
Prime Meridian
B
Line of Latitude
C
Tordesillas Line
D
Equator
3) Which country claimed most of the coast of Africa due to Exploration?
A
France
B
Portugal
C
England
D
Spain
4) Which country was first to sail to India?
A
Portugal
B
Spain
C
France
D
England
5) Which country was first to sail to the Americas?
A
England
B
Spain
C
Portugal
D
France
6) What was Prince Henry the Navigator famous for?
A
The Spanish Inquisition
B
Invented the compass
C
His sailing school
D
Cured the Plague
7) What did triangular sails do?
A
Allow you to sail into the wind
B
Go faster with the wind
8) What was the name of the ship Prince Henry and the Portuguese developed?
A
Appaloosa
B
Mustang
C
Pinto
D
Caravel
9) Who are soldiers that fight for money, not for a country?
A
Caballeros
B
Mercenaries
10) Diseases helped the Spanish conquer the Native Americans.
A
True
B
False
11) Many resources in Europe were running out before Columbus sailed.
A
False
B
True
12) Why were spices so scarce and expensive?
A
The Silk Road was closed
B
The Plague
13) What did Pizarro and Cortez, and do?
A
Were Captains on Columbus's ships
B
Defeated Native American Empires
14) Allies....
A
Support each other in wars
B
Fight each other in wars
15) Smallpox....
A
Is a disease that affects mostly chickens
B
Is a disease that causes high fever and death.
16) Circumnavigate means....
A
Radius
B
Sail across the ocean
C
Diameter
D
Go completely around something
17) Soldiers that fought for Spain....
A
Conquistadors
B
Converts
18) The Enconmienda System...
A
Gave New World landowners the right to use the Native Americans that lived on their land
B
Was a new way to grow crops
19) Empire...
A
People who fight for the king
B
group of territories under a single government
C
Converts
D
Colony
20) An area under the control of another country.
A
Colony
B
Empire
C
Encomienda System
D
Culture
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