Age of Exploration
Test Review Packet
I.
Europeans Explore the East, Chapter 3, Sec 1 (p.83-88)
Write a few sentences explaining the following people and terms or events. You need to be able to explain why we
care!:
Bartolomeu Dias
Prince Henry
Vasco da Gama
Treaty of Tordesillas
Dutch East India Company
Answer the following questions:
1. What factors helped spur European exploration?
2. What role did Portugal’s Prince Henry play in overseas exploration?
3. Why were the Dutch so successful in establishing a trading empire in the Indian Ocean?
II.
The Atlantic World, Chapter 4 (p. 100-123)
Write a few sentences explaining the following people and terms or events:
Conquistadors
Hernando Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
Montezuma II
Encomienda
Bartolome de Las Casas
Jamestown
French and Indian War
Atlantic slave trade
Triangular trade
Columbian Exchange
Commercial Revolution
Mercantilism
Answer the following questions:
1. Who was Columbus and why did he set sail on the Atlantic? Who paid for it?
2.
List three goals of the Spanish in the Americas
3. How did the Spanish treat the Native Americans? What was the Native American view of the Spanish?
4. What did the Europeans mostly grow in their Caribbean colonies?
5.
What resource did New France profit from in the New World?
6. What was the result of the French and Indian War?
7. What factors led European colonists to use Africans to resupply their labor force?
8. Describe the conditions on board a slave ship.
9. Name several ways in which enslaved Africans resisted their position in the Americas
10. Why was the introduction of corn and potatoes to Europe and Asia so significant?
III.
Asia
Ming and Qing China
Confucianism
China’s trade policy
Zheng He’s expeditions
Manchus
Tribute
Trade items
Internal policies of agriculture
Reaction to Europeans
Japan
Warring States period
Daimyos
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Kabuki theater
Social class pyramid
Reactions to Europeans (including what they wanted from Euorpeans)
Christian missionaries
Closed door policy
Short Answer Responses
Compare the reactions that the Japanese and Chinese had to Europeans
IV.
Map Work
On a map please identify the following (you may need to shade):
Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean Indian Ocean Arabian Peninsula
Aztec Empire Inca Empire Europe Netherlands
India China Portugal Spain
Calicut
Brazil West Indies England East Indies
Spice Islands Russia Persia West Africa