Age of Exploration

Age of Exploration

<p> Age of Exploration Test Review Packet</p><p>I. Europeans Explore the East, Chapter 3, Sec 1 (p.83-88)</p><p>Write a few sentences explaining the following people and terms or events. You need to be able to explain why we care!:</p><p>Bartolomeu Dias</p><p>Prince Henry</p><p>Vasco da Gama</p><p>Treaty of Tordesillas</p><p>Dutch East India Company</p><p>Answer the following questions:</p><p>1. What factors helped spur European exploration?</p><p>2. What role did Portugal’s Prince Henry play in overseas exploration?</p><p>3. Why were the Dutch so successful in establishing a trading empire in the Indian Ocean?</p><p>II. The Atlantic World, Chapter 4 (p. 100-123)</p><p>Write a few sentences explaining the following people and terms or events:</p><p>Conquistadors</p><p>Hernando Cortes</p><p>Francisco Pizarro</p><p>Montezuma II</p><p>Encomienda Bartolome de Las Casas</p><p>Jamestown</p><p>French and Indian War</p><p>Atlantic slave trade</p><p>Triangular trade (draw a picture here)</p><p>Columbian Exchange (draw a picture here)</p><p>Commercial Revolution</p><p>Mercantilism</p><p>Answer the following questions:</p><p>1. Who was Columbus and why did he set sail on the Atlantic? Who paid for it?</p><p>2. List three goals of the Spanish in the Americas</p><p>3. How did the Spanish treat the Native Americans? What was the Native American view of the Spanish?</p><p>4. What did the Europeans mostly grow in their Caribbean colonies?</p><p>5. What resource did New France profit from in the New World?</p><p>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?</p><p>8. Describe the conditions on board a slave ship.</p><p>9. Name several ways in which enslaved Africans resisted their position in the Americas</p><p>10. Why was the introduction of corn and potatoes to Europe and Asia so significant?</p><p>III. Map Work</p><p>On a map please identify the following (you may need to shade):</p><p>Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean Indian Ocean Arabian Peninsula</p><p>Aztec Empire Inca Empire Europe Netherlands</p><p>India China Portugal Spain</p><p>Brazil West Indies England East Indies</p><p>Spice Islands Russia Persia West Africa</p><p>IV. Columbus Essay (see attached sheet)</p>

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