Age of Exploration

Question 1

The French working together with the Native Americans was known as

A
Middle Ground

B
Exchange

C
Enslavement

D
Christianization

Answer 1

A

Question 2

1
Oldest Empire
2
Most war-like empire
3
Ruled by Mansa Musa
4
Relied on the slave trade the most
5
Destroyed by goats

Answer 2

1
Ghana
2
Songhai
3
Mali
4
Songhai
5
Ghana

Question 3

Samuel de Champlain was well known for

A
Discovering North America

B
Founding Quebec

C
Claiming Eastern Canada

D
Exploring the American Southwest

Answer 3

B or C

Question 4

Order the goals according to the following statement.

The people of Spain arrived in the New World, following Christopher Columbus. They immediately set to work setting up gold and silver mines and capturing more and more land for their king. They enslaved Native Americans to have them work in the mines and then took the remaining land for themselves. Sometimes, they would try to convert the Native Americans to their religion, but it was not a priority for them.

Goal #1 =
Goal #2 =
Goal #3 =

Answer 4

1. Gold
2. Glory
3. God

Question 5

Which of these was NOT a major motivating factor behind European exploration?

A
Religion

B
Money

C
Glory

D
Fear

Answer 5

D

Question 6

Which disease caused fevers, left behind scars and killed millions of Native Americans?

A
Typhoid

B
Plague

C
Yellow Fever

D
Smallpox

Answer 6

D

Question 7

French explorers cooperated with American Indians by -
A
becoming large landowners
B
adopting foreign religions
C
sharing farming techniques
D
establishing trading posts

Answer 7

D

Question 8

Which of the countries claimed this area (Mexico)?

A
England

B
France

C
Spain

D
Portugal

Answer 8

D

Question 9

What good did England want the most in the New World?

A
Slaves

B
Gold

C
Tobacco

D
Cotton

Answer 9

C

Question 10

Which of these empires was the newest?

A
Egyptian

B
Ghana

C
Songhai

D
Mali

Answer 10

C

Question 11

The Spanish brought all of the following except WHAT to the New World

A
Missionaries

B
Smallpox

C
Horses

D
Tobacco

Answer 11

D

Question 12

Which of these does NOT show one of the characteristics of French interaction with the Natives?

A
trading

B
learning

C
enslaving

D
spreading religion

Answer 12

C

Question 13

The Columbian Exchange was

A
the movement of people and goods from the Old to the New World and back

B
the meeting and working together between the Spanish and the Native Americans

C
the introduction of tobacco to the English economy

D
the goods bought and sold by Columbus from Hispaniola

Answer 13

A

Question 14

This nation was most closely associated with the slave trade

A
Mali

B
Ghana

C
Songhai

D
Western Sahel

Answer 14

C

Question 15

What did goats help cause in Ghana?

A
desertification

B
village destruction

C
failure of trade

D
assassination of Mansa Musa

Answer 15

A

Question 16

1. Which parts of the New World did the Spanish take over?

Answer 16

American Southwest and South America

Question 17

2. What physical good did the Spanish want? How did they get it?

Answer 17

Gold and through enslaving Native Americans

Question 18

3. What spiritual thing did the Spanish want? What did they build to make it?

Answer 18

Spread Christianity; missions

Question 19

4. What happened to the Native people who interacted with the Spanish?

Answer 19

Enslaved, attacked, given diseases, exposed to Christianity

Question 20

5. What items/goods/diseases did the Spanish bring? Which were good? Which were bad?

Answer 20

Cows, horses, typhoid, smallpox, Christianity
Good, good, bad, bad, both

Question 21

. Where did the French settle in the New World?

Answer 21

Canada

Question 22

2. The French lived in the cold part of Canada. What effect did this have on the amount of French settlers?

Answer 22

Decreased because it was too cold to settle

Question 23

. What job did most French settlers do? Where did they work?

Answer 23

Fur traders; Trading Posts

Question 24

. How did the French interact with the Natives? What was this called? Give an example.

Answer 24

a. Positively

b. Middle Ground

c. Equal trade relationship; furs for metal/guns ALSO learning from each other
(language and culture)

Question 25

5. How did the French spread Christianity? What other results happened because of their work?

Answer 25

Missionaries and Bribery; exchange of culture, language, etc.

Question 26

1. What was the biggest difference between the English and the other two countries? What did they not care about as much?

Answer 26

Did not care about spreading religion; only cared about Gold and Glory

Question 27

2. Which region did the English live in? How did this affect the number of settlers?

Answer 27

Northeast, the number of settlers decreased because of the cold temperature.

Question 28

3. How did the English work with the Natives? How did they get the Natives’ land?

Answer 28

a. Fought with them, took over their land using weapons and forts ; also worked with them and shared techniques; mixed overall b. Sometimes bought land, sometimes stole it

Question 29

. What allowed the English to survive their early years in the New World? How did they learn about it?

Answer 29

Squanto and other Natives who taught them how to farm, live off the land, and other techniques that made living in the cold easier; Squanto knew English from previous explorers

Question 30

. What good was the most important thing to the English, specifically?

Answer 30

Tobacco