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ANSWERS___________
Exploration Unit Study Guide
Choose the best answer from the choices provided. Write the letter of your answer in the blank.
_____ 1. Which era changed Europe’s view of the
world?
a. The Middle Ages
b. Renaissance
c. Scientific Revolution d. Age of Exploration
_____ 10. The Columbian Exchange involved
a. plants
b. animals
c. technology d. culture
e. all of the above
_____ 2. Which came first?
a. the Silk Road
b. the Triangular Trade
_____ 11. True or False? Columbus set foot on North
America.
a. True b. False
_____ 3. Ferdinand and Isabella financed the Nina, the
Pinta, and the Santa Maria for this explorer.
a. Columbus
b. Vasco da Gama
c. Magellan
d. Drake
_____ 4. Who is America named for?
a. Captain America
b. America Ferrera
c. Amerigo Vespucci
_____ 5. The year is 1498. You are in Europe. You sail
east to Asia. What continent must you go
around?
a. Asia
b. North America
c. Africa
d. South America
_____ 6. Europe had an ideal location for trade with the
a. Old World
b. New World
c. both
d. neither
_____ 7. What is a Conquistador?
a. Spanish Explorer
c. Portuguese Explorer
b. Spanish Royalty
d. French Colonist
_____ 8. All of the following were brought to the Old
World from the New World except?
a. tobacco
b. horses
c. avocados
d. smallpox
_____ 9. The Columbian Exchange radically changed:
a. the world's plants and animals.
b. the ethnic composition of the Americas.
c. the diet of people around the world.
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
_____ 12. What is a colony?
a. people who travel to a distant land
b. people who stay under the rule of native land
c. group of people who settle in a native land
d. all of the above
_____ 13. Who led an expedition that caused the fall of
the Aztec empire?
a. Hernan Cortes
b. Vasco Nunez
c. Christopher Columbus d. Francisco Pizarro
_____ 14. Who began the African slave trade in the
1400s?
a. Spain and Portugal
b. England, France, the Netherlands
_____ 15. The Triangular Trade involved all of the
continents, except:
a. Asia
b. North America
c. Africa
d. South America
_____ 16. True or False? The Spanish were only
interested in Gold and Silver when they came to
the New World.
a. True b. False
_____ 17. What disease was NOT carried over to the
New World in the Columbian Exchange?
a. Smallpox
b. Malaria
c. Measles
d. Chicken Pox
______18. What was the name of the native tribes that
lived in the Bahamas before the Europeans?
a. Choctaw
b. Slaves
c. Lucayan
d. Afro-Caribbean
Short Answer
Answer the following in the space provided.
19. What was a positive impact of the Columbian Exchange?
A lot of new foods were introduced to both countries.
20. Who started the Columbian Exchange?
The Old World  Europe, Africa and Asia
21. What was life like for an explorer during the age of exploration?
Life was spent a lot on the seas, exploring new land, meeting new people, introducing new things.
22. Who came first: explorers or conquistadors?
Conquistadors
23. The famous “Lost Colony” was located on __________________________ ______________________.
Roanoke Island
24. What is a Mestizo?
People of mixed Spanish and Native Ancestry
25. Why were the Native Americans at a disadvantage compared to the conquistadors from Spain?
They did not have the kind of weapons like the conquistadors did from Spain.
26. What were two of the long term effects of the Columbian Exchange?
Illnesses of Native Americans, More crops in the Old World and New World, Slavery, Settlement.
27. What are the three types of colonies?
Trading Posts, Plantations, Settler Colonies
28. What is the importance of St. Augustine?
It is the oldest site in the US that has continuously been inhabited by European settlers and their descendants.
29. Name 4 of the 13 Colonies.
North Carolina, Virginia, Massachusetts, New York
30. What was the lost colony?
A group of 100 settlers, mostly families, went missing and their colony was found abandoned. They evidently had
moved to live among the Indians. The world “Croaton” was carved on a tree nearby.