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Explorations and Expansion Vocabulary Builder

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Full Survey Chapter 16 Exploration and Expansion

DIRECTIONS Choose [four] of the vocabulary terms from the word bank. Use these

terms to write a summary of what you learned in the section.

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DIRECTIONS On the line provided before each statement, write T if a statement is true

and F if a statement is false. If the statement is false, write the correct term from the word

bank on the line after each sentence that makes the sentence true.

____ 1. The lateen was a light, fast sailing ship that could be equipped with weapons,

including cannons.

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____ 2. When survivors of Magellan’s voyage returned to Spain on September 8,

1522, they were the first people ever to circumnavigate the world.

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____ 3. Henry Hudson, the son of King John I of Portugal, was a patron and supporter

of those who wished to explore.

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caravel Circumnavigate Christopher Columbus

Sir Francis Drake Vasco da Gama Henry the Navigator

Vasco da Gama caravel Henry the Navigator

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Exploration and Expansion Section Quiz

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MULTIPLE CHOICE For each of the following, write the letter of the best choice in the

space provided.

____ 1. The period between the 1400s

and 1500s in Europe is

sometimes called the

a. Reformation.

b. Age of Exploration.

c. Dark Ages.

d. Age of Expansion.

____ 2. Explorers who set out from

Europe were looking for

a. fame.

b. wealth.

c. converts.

d. all of the above

____ 3. Like Columbus, many

Europeans in the 1400s thought

the world

a. had no boundaries.

b. was flat.

c. centered around Europe.

d. was round.

____ 4. The astrolabe allowed sailors

a. to spot land at a distance.

b. to sail into a headwind.

c. to have healthier diets.

d. to calculate their location.

_____ 5. Sea captains were aided by a

new type of ship called the

a. caravel.

b. compass.

c. ducado.

d. lateen.

_____ 6. Who created a court for

explorers in Portugal?

a. King John I

b. Prince Henry

c. Bartolomeu Dias

d. Queen Isabella

_____ 7. When the English realized they

had reached a previously

unknown land

a. English rulers refused to

fund any more voyages.

b. the English queen sent Sir

Francis Drake around the

tip of South America.

c. English rulers sent John

Cabot in search of a

Northeast Passage.

d. English explorers led an

expedition across the

Isthmus of Panama.

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____ 8. On a voyage that began in

1497, Portuguese explorer

Vasco da Gama reached

a. Brazil.

b. India.

c. San Salvador.

d. the Pacific Ocean.

____ 9. An early European explorer

who sailed for the English and

the Dutch was

a. Henry Hudson.

b. Jacques Cartier.

c. Sir Francis Drake.

d. Vasco Núñez de Balboa.

_____ 10. Because of its location, which

European country was the first

to launch large-scale

exploration voyages?

a. France

b. the Netherlands

c. Portugal

d. England

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Exploration and Expansion Vocabulary Builder

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DIRECTIONS For each term, write a word that has the same meaning.

1. conquistador _________________________________________________________

2. encomienda _________________________________________________________

3. viceroys ____________________________________________________________

DIRECTIONS Read each set of four vocabulary terms following each number. On the

line provided, write the letter of the term that is not part of each set.

____ 4. a. New Netherland

b. Hernán Cortés

c. Mexico

d. conqueror

____ 5. a. Bartolomé de Las Casas

b. Jamestown

c. priest

d. reformer

_____ 6. a. Atahualpa

b. gold and silver

c. Aztec Empire

d. murdered

_____ 7. a. Treaty of Tordesillas

b. imaginary line through

Atlantic

c. Portuguese

d. Plymouth

DIRECTIONS Read each sentence. Fill in the blank with the word from the word pair

that best completes the sentence.

8. When Cortés arrived in Mexico, __________________________ was the emperor of

the Aztecs. (Moctezuma II/Malintzin)

9. Conquistador __________________________ found that the Inca Empire had been

weakened by smallpox, which killed the emperor and resulted in a civil war.

(Francisco Pizarro/Bartolomé de Las Casas)

10. Once Spain controlled a vast empire in the Americas, the Spanish king needed

__________________________ to help him rule large areas.

(viceroys/conquistadors)

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11. The __________________________ effectively divided lands in the Americas

between Spain and Portugal. (encomienda/Treaty of Tordesillas)

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FILL IN THE BLANK Read each sentence. Fill in the blank with the word from the

word pair that best completes the sentence.

1. Native Americans died in large numbers because they had no resistance to European

__________________________. (food/diseases)

2. __________________________ led an expedition to the area that today is known as

Mexico. (Hernán Cortés/Francisco Pizarro)

3. When the Spanish conquered Moctezuma II, it marked the end of the

__________________________ Empire. (Inca/Aztec)

4. __________________________ was the home of the powerful Inca Empire.

(Brazil/Peru)

5. Men who led the Spanish conquest of the Americas in the 16th century were known

as __________________________. (viceroys/conquistadors)

6. In the __________________________ system, a colonist was given land and a

number of Native Americans to work the land for him. (encomienda/conquistador)

7. A document called the __________________________ divided the Americas

between Spain and Portugal. (Treaty of Tordesillas/encomienda)

8. The Dutch established the colony of __________________________ along the

Hudson River. (New Spain/New Netherland)

9. The reformer Bartolomé de Las Casas was a Spanish

__________________________ who protested the unjust treatment of Native

Americans. (king/priest)

10. The first English colony was established at __________________________ in

present-day Virginia in 1607. (Jamestown/Plymouth)

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DIRECTIONS Look up the vocabulary terms in the word bank in a dictionary. For each

term, write the dictionary definition that is closest to the definition used in your textbook.

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DIRECTIONS Answer each question by writing a sentence that contains at least one

word from the word bank.

1. What was the growing interaction between colonists and Native Americans, and

what did it lead to?

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2. Under which economic system do private individuals and organizations focus on

making a profit? How did this system affect individuals?

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balance of trade capitalism mercantilism subsidies

joint-stock company Columbian Exchange capitalism

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3. What is it called when investors purchase shares of stock in their own companies?

Explain the process.

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TRUE/FALSE Read each FALSE statement below. On the line provided, replace the

underlined words with a term from the word bank to make the sentence TRUE.

1. The Columbian Exchange was the exchange of plants, animals, people, and disease

between Colombia and the Americas.

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2. Before contact between Europe and the Americas, Native Americans had never

known of potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, or turkeys.

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3. The European population fell from around 2 million in 1492 to 500,000 by 1900.

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4. The system of mercantilism is based on private individuals or organizations carrying

on most economic activities in order to seek a profit.

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5. In the Columbian Exchange, investors bought shares of stock in a company and

earned a portion of any profits the company made.

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North American Indian Europe, Africa, and Asia joint-stock companies

capitalism Europeans

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DIRECTIONS For each term below, write a word that has the same meaning.

1. plantation ___________________________________________________________

2. triangular trade _______________________________________________________

DIRECTIONS In the space provided, write the word from the word bank below that best

matches each description.

_________________________ 3. brought Africans to the Americas to be sold as

slaves

_________________________ 4. African who survived the Middle Passage who

wrote about his experience

_________________________ 5. result of the slave trade that led to people of African

descent being spread throughout the Americas and

Western Europe

DIRECTIONS On the line provided before each statement, write T if a statement is true

and F if a statement is false. If the statement is false, write the correct term from the word

bank on the line after each sentence that makes the sentence true.

____ 6. European planters owned large plantations where cash crops such as sugar or

tobacco were grown on a large scale.

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____ 7. The Middle Passage involved exchanging European goods for Africans,

bringing the Africans to the Americas to be sold, and then carrying American

products to Europe.

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African Diaspora Middle Passage Olauda Equiano

African Diaspora Plantations Middle Passage triangular trade

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____ 8. During the African Diaspora, Africans were often packed into spaces so small

that they could neither sit nor stand.

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____ 9. Olaudah Equiano wrote about the terrifying voyage that brought Africans to

the Americas to be sold into slavery.

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____ 10. The spread of African culture throughout many parts of the Western world is

called the triangular trade.

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MULTIPLE CHOICE For each of the following, write the letter of the best choice in the

space provided.

____ 1. The Atlantic slave trade began

in order to

a. supply workers for cotton

plantations.

b. ease overpopulation in

Africa.

c. remedy a shortage of labor

in the Americas.

d. spread Christianity.

____ 2. By the end of the 1600s, the

slave trade was dominated by

a. the Spanish.

b. the French.

c. the English.

d. the Dutch.

____ 3. The spread of people of

African descent throughout the

Americas and Western Europe

is called the

a. African Diaspora.

b. Middle Passage.

c. triangular trade.

d. Columbian Exchange.

_____ 4. Keeping their cultural

traditions alive was a way for

some enslaved people to

a. resist the harsh conditions

of slavery.

b. become free.

c. demonstrate indifference to

the slave system.

d. win privileges from

slaveholders.

_____ 5. The effects of the slave trade

included

a. capturing the future leaders

of African societies.

b. depriving millions of

people of their freedom.

c. dividing Africans from one

another as some rulers

waged wars to gain

captives.

d. all of the above

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