Exploration and Colonization

The total number of Africans kidnapped and brought to the new world between the 15th and 19th centuries were approximately:

10-15 million

All of the following were motivations behind European exploration and colonization except:

African and new world natives were invading European kingdoms

This Northern native African kingdom was thriving before European contact. After European contact its people lost faith in their gods and civil war became a constant problem:

Benin

Dutch farmers and their descendants born in South Africa were known as:

Boers

The first explorer to cross the Atlantic Ocean and arrive on land in the western Hemisphere was

Christopher C(ol)UMbus

This technological advance made it possible for ship captains to know the direction they were sailing:

Compass (pronounced cum-piss)

The Portuguese began their naval expeditions by traveling:

Down the western coast of Africa

The first Europeans to establish colonies in what is today New York and New Jersey were the:

Dutch

By 1700, which two European nations had emerged as the leading rivals for control over territory in North America and India:

England and France

All of the following items originated in the western hemisphere and were brought back to the eastern hemisphere after 1492 except:

Horses

All of the following were areas of Spanish colonization except:

India

Which non-African religion had the greatest success in winning large populations of African converts:

Islam

Hernan Cortes explored and conquered this religion of the New World on behalf of Spain

Mexico

The Treaty of Tordesillas was an attempt to divide up the newly discovered lands in the western hemisphere. Representatives of all the following signed the Treaty of Tordesillas except:

Native Americans

Who founded a school of Navigation in Portugal in 1419:

Prince Henry

The first European nation to bring African captives to the New World was

Spain

The islands of Malacca and Moluccas in Southeast Asia were highly prizes for which resource:

Spices

All of the following items originated in the eastern hemisphere and were brought over to the western hemisphere after 1492:

Syphilis

Who is credited with being the first explorer to round the cape of Good Hope, cross the Indian Ocean, and successfully arrive on the western coast of India:

Vasco de Gama

Which of the following correctly places events in order from earliest to latest:

nope.