
Age of Exploration Notes/Questions
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What were the main motives for European exploration as listed in the image?
Crusades
Renaissance
Reformation
Technological advances
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What was the purpose of the astrolabe in navigation?
To measure the incline position of celestial bodies
To determine the speed of ships
To calculate the distance traveled
To create maps
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Who initiated the first voyages along the Atlantic coast of Africa during the 15th century?
Bartholomew Diaz
Vasco da Gama
Prince Henry the Navigator
Christopher Columbus
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What were the significant contributions of Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan to Spanish exploration?
Discovery of the Americas
Circumnavigation of the Earth
Proving the Earth is flat
Died in the Americas
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What were the years of Columbus' voyages as shown on the map?
1492, 1493, 1498, 1502-1504
1492, 1494, 1498, 1500
1492, 1495, 1498, 1501
1492, 1493, 1497, 1504
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What are the people from the Netherlands known as?
Dutch
Belgian
German
French
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The status of being a citizen of a particular country
heritage
customs
nationality
culture
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What was the role of the Dutch East India Company in Asia during the period after the Dutch lost their colonies in North America?
It was less successful than the British East India Company
It was more successful in Asia
It was dissolved in the 1700s
It had no impact on trade
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What are the effects of exploration on mercantilism, early capitalism, and the ideas of Adam Smith?
Increased trade
Decreased wealth
Limited exploration
Reduced competition
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What economic principle is illustrated in the image below?
Captialism
Feudalism
Socialism
Mercantilism
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What was the value of gold and silver from Spanish America in the year 1616-1620?
10 million pesos
20 million pesos
30 million pesos
35 million pesos
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What were the four key factors that resulted in the Commercial Revolution?
Development of European overseas colonies
New ocean trade routes
Population growth
Inflation
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What problems are associated with Joint Stock Companies?
Financial Bubbles
High profits
Low risk
Limited investment
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Why do you think Native American populations decreased from around 25 million people to around 5 million from the year 1518 to 1548?
They decided to leave the Americas.
Increased availability of food sources.
Peaceful interactions with Europeans.
The spread of diseases, slavery, and war.
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Why were the diseases from the Europeans so deadly to the Native Americans?
These diseases were created to be super diseases.
The Native Americans had already defeated these diseases and forgot about them.
They had no medicines or immunity to the diseases
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What role did slave labor play in sugar production?
It was not needed
It was essential
It was optional
It was harmful
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What were the main factors that led to the fall of the Aztecs and the Incas?
Conquistadors
Smallpox
New Spain
Atahualpa
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Which European empires are represented in the Americas according to the map?
Spanish
French
Dutch
All of the above
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What are the different classes in the Colonial Class System as represented in the image?
Peninsulares
Creoles
Mestizos
Mulattos
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Which of the following sentences describes the graph?
The number of enslaved people was always greater than the number of indentured servants.
The number of indentured servants grew rapidly before they were replaced by enslaved people.
The number of indentured servants was always greater than the number of enslaved people.
The number of enslaved people grew rapidly before they were replaced by indentured servants.
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