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Explorations and Expansion Vocabulary Builder
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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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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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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