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Mr. Goldman SS 7

AGE OF EXPLORATION REVIEW

1. Who was the individual chiefly responsible for Portugal's' age of exploration in the fifteenth
century?
2. A direct result of the Crusades was that
3. Who was the Italian adventurer who spent over twenty years in China and the Near East?
4. The Crusades were a series of Holy Wars between the ___________ and the __________.
5. The French colonies in the New World came to be known as
6. The Crusades and the travels of Marco Polo all contributed to the
7. What was the motto of the Spanish explorers?
8. Why were the Spanish explorers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries known as
conquistadores?
9. Where were the majority of Spanish cities and towns located in the New World?
10. A direct result of the conquest of Tenochtitlán by Hernán Cortés in 1521 was the
11. Henry Hudson's exploration of the Hudson River, granted the _______ claim to the region.
12. Because the Encomienda system was a failure, Spain was forced to
13. What was an important part of the French colonial economy in the 17th century?
14. During the middle Ages, what was the name of the system that was based on mutual obligations?
15. The English sailors of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were nicknamed "pirates" because
16. The global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the colonization of the Americas is known
as the
17. The discovery of valuable metals such as Gold in the Americas led to which of the following?
18. Which social class controlled most of the political, economic, and social power in the Spanish
colonies?
19. What were the ways the French made money in the New World?
20. In Europe a long-term effect of the Crusades was
21. During the 1500s, technological advances in navigation and mapmaking contributed directly to
the start of the
22. The astrolabe was able to provide navigators with information about
23. What happened in the New World as European explorers, conquistadores, and settlers arrived?
24. Following the Crusades, how did the Muslims play an important role in trade between the Middle
East and Asia?
25. Who were the mestizos in the Spanish colonies?
26. What was Columbus's greatest miscalculation?