Blocker's semester exam-Exploration Unit Test
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- Vasco De Balbo
- Spanish planter who tried to escape his creditors by fleeing westward, He crossed the Isthmus of Panama and was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean
- Were delivered to South America and the West Indies
- The majority of African slaves coming to the New World
- it exposed a land bridge connecting Eurasia with North Ameria
- The Great Ice Age accounted for the origins of North America's human history because
- The gruesome ocean voyage to America
- For those Africans who were sold into slavery, the "middle passage" can be best described as
- Jacques Cartier
- The St. Lawrence River was discovered and mapped by the French explorer
- Hernado De Soto
- Explored the southeastern region of North Americalooking for the cities of gold between 1539-1542
- civilized
- De Las Casas believed the Native Americans to be what?
- At times brutal and exploitative
- The treatment of the Native Americans by teh Spanish conquistadores can be described as
- The Crusades
- What historic even resulted from the speech by Pope Urban II
- Providing Hospitality
- The Arawak repsonded to Columbus's arrival by
- Jerusalem
- To what "royal city" was the Pope referring in the passage
- Improved ship designs and navigational instruments make exploration easier
- What was one cause that encouraged Europeans to explore the Americas?
- Been captured in war
- Most people enslaved in African societies had
- Spanish, French, and English settlements in the Americas
- One of the effects of Europeans exploring the Americas was
- Corn
- The crop that became the staple of life in Mexico and South America was
- The deaths of millions of Native Americans, who had little resistance to European diseases
- European contact with Native Americans led to
- Protect its Central and South America domains from encroachments by England and France
- Spain began to fortify and settle its North American border lands in order to
- Europeans clamored for more and cheaper products from Asia, Africa was established as a source of slave labor, the Portuguese demonstrated the feasibility of long range ocean navigation, and the Renaissance nurtered a spirit of optimism and adventure
- The stage was set for a catacylsmic shift in the course of history when
- brought back news of valuable Far Eastern spices, drugs, and silk
- The Christians crusaders were indirectly responsible for the discovery of America because they
- Spain
- Which country financed Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic in 1492
- a revewed interest in the cultures of ancient greece and rome
- the renaissance was
- Rapid population growth in Europe
- The introduction of American plants around the world resulted in
- Lord La Salle
- Frenchman who followed the Mississippi River all the way to the Gulf of Mexico
- Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette
- A fur trader and priest who in 1673 traveled down the Mississippi River as far as the Arkansas River
- Confirmed Spain's claim to the new lands of America
- The Treaty of Tordesillas
- Raw Materials
- In the new interdependent global economic system that emerged after Columbus's discovery, the new world provided
- New France
- In 1608 Samuel de Champlian founded Quebec, which became the capital of the new colony of
- Sailed to the outskirts of the East Indies
- After his first voyage, Christopher Columbus believed that he had
- Break the hold that Muslim merchants had on trade with Asia, reduce the price of goods from Asia, gain more profits for themselves, and reduce the time it took to transport goods
- Europeans wanted to discover a new, shorter route to eastern Asia in order to
- He believed that he had skirted the rim of the "Indies"
- Columbus called the native people in the "New World" Indians because
- people who crossed the land bridge from Eurasia to North Ameria
- Most likely the first Americans were
- Juan Ponce De Leon
- Spanish governor of Puerto Rico who found the "land of flowers"
- Desire for gold
- Men became conquistadores because they wanted to
- Smallpox
- European explorers introduced into the New World
- free Chritianity's holy places from the Muslims
- The purpose of the Crusades was to
- The development of agriculture
- The size and sophistication of Native American civilization in Mexico and South America can attributed to
- Henry Hudson
- Sailed up a major northern river in N.A. for the Dutch East Indian Company in 1609
- Work on plantations on the Atlantic sugar islands
- In the last half of the fifteenth century some forty thousands indigenours Americans were forced into slavery by Portugal and Spain to
- Portugese slave trade
- The orgins of the modern plantation system can be found in the
- Heaven
- According to Columbus, the Arawak pepole thought he was an extraordinary visitor who had come from
- 54 million
- In 1492, when Europeans arrived in the Americans, the total of the two continents' population was
- Hernana Francisco De Coronado
- Spanish explorer who led a large expedition in 1540 to the Colorado River and eastward to modern-day Kansas
- Maize, potatoes, beans, and tomatoes
- These New World plants revolutionized teh international economy
- Ponce de Leon- Mississippi River Valley
- In which of the following is the explorer mismatched with the area he explored?