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The motive of God as a reason for exploration meant ___________.
a) European missionaries ceased to exist
b) Non-Christians felt that they needed to conquer more land
c) Christians felt it was their duty to spread Christianity
d) Christians wanted to begin another round of Crusades
Which of the following would represent land from the New World?
a) Asia, including China
b) North America and South America
c) Africa and the Middle East
d) Europe and Africa
Why did people begin to explore new ways to get to Asia?
a) Travel by sea was not allowed by the Muslim Turks
b) Travel by land was too easy and did not challenge merchants enough
c) Travel along the Northwest passage was constantly at war
d) Travel along the Silk Road became dangerous and expensive
“So it was we lost our lands to the strangers from the sky. We gave our souls to their gods. We took their speech into our mouths, forgetting our own,” - meant...
a) The Indigenous people began to lose their culture/way-of-life to the Europeans explorer culture/way-of-life.
b) The European explorers killed all the Indigenous people and sacrificed them to their gods.
c) The Indigenous people forgot how to speak after the European explorers came to the New World.
d) The European explorers stole the land, religion, and language of the Indigenous people.
Whatis the Columbian Exchange?
a) An exchange of ideas, animals, plants, and diseases.
b) Only an exchange of plants.
c) Only an exchange of animals.
d) Only an exchange of diseases.
The sentence, Countries like Spain wanted to be the first to find a water route to Asia, meets the requirement of _______ as a reason for exploration.
a) God
b) Glory
c) Guilt
d) Gold
What technologies assisted the Europeans and allowed overseas exploring?
a) Food sources from the New World.
b) Shipbuilding, mapmaking, and navigational instruments.
c) Water sources to the colonies
d) Military's use of gunpowder.
Because of the demand for goods from the ______, people began to explore new ways to Asia.
a) Mediterranean Region
b) North America
c) Far East
d) South Africa
What practice/technology did European colonizers improve upon after contact with the New World?
a) Farming
b) Military tactics
c) Trade
d) Astronomy
What food crop lead to population growth and eventually to a famine in the Old World?
a) Corn
b) Pumpkins
c) Potatoes
d) Beans
What animal from the Old World changed the Native Americans living on the Great Plains way of life?
a) Turkey
b) Horse
c) Ducks
d) Alpaca
Which disease did not have an impact on the New World?
a) Smallpox
b) Measles
c) Influenza
d) Chicken Pox
The death of Indigenous labor force led what agricultural practice in the New World?
a) Importation of criminals from Europe.
b) Importation of slave labor from Africa.
c) Europeans inviting Africans to come work as paid labor in the New World.
d) European colonists becoming the main source of labor.
An effect of colonialism on the continent of Africa was...
a) The Transatlantic slave trade impaired Africa's potential to develop economically.
b) The Transatlantic slave trade boosted the economy of Africa because of the money they were receiving for slaves.
c) The Transatlantic slave trade increased the population of Africa because of the slaves being brought in from other countries.
d) The Transatlantic slave trade had no effect on Africa; however, it impacted the Americas because of overpopulation.
What evidence from the book Encounter shows the Indigenous child's fear of the explorers?
a) And they gave hollow shells with tongues that sang chunga-changa.
b) My zemis was silent. It only spoke in my dreams.
c) Do not welcome them. Do not call them friendly.
d) See how pale they are. No one can be that color who comes from earth.
Why was there a need for the rise of slavery in the American colonies?
a) There was a demand for laborers to grow the Old World cash crops.
b) There was a demand for laborers to grow the New World cash crops.
c) There was a demand for laborers to go to Europe to work the manor.
d) There was a demand for laborers to go to Africa to work the farmland.
Which of the following was an effect colonialism had on Indigenous people?
a) The population of Indigenous people was reduced due to disease.
b) The Europeans allowed the Indigenous people to live on the reservations.
c) The Indigenous people were able to live freely among the Europeans.
d) The population of Indigenous people increased because family life was important.
Besides slavery, what was one of the reasons for conflict between the Europeans and the Indigenouspeople?
a) European missionaries tried to convert Indigenous people to Islan
b) European missionaries tried to convert Indigenous people to Judaism.
c) European missionaries tried to convert Indigenous people to Christianity.
d) European missionaries tried to convince the Indigenous people that slavery was unnecessary.
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