Question 1

What did England export?

Accepted Answer

manufactured goods

Answer

bills of exchange

Answer

sugar, molasses, and fruit

Answer

salt, fruit, and wines

Question 2

What did ships transport on the "middle passage"?

Accepted Answer

gold and enslaved Africans

Answer

sugar, molasses, and enslaved Africans

Answer

rum, trade goods, and currency

Answer

coins, enslaved Africans, and sugar

Question 3

Before the Columbian Exchange, which was never seen in Europe?

Accepted Answer

pumpkins

Answer

pigs

Answer

cows

Answer

wheat

Question 4

Where in the Americas did Christopher Columbus land first?

Accepted Answer

an island in the Caribbean Sea

Answer

the coast of what is today Panama

Answer

the eastern coast of North America

Answer

the southern tip of South America

Question 5

Who conquered the Aztec empire?

Accepted Answer

Hernando Cortés

Answer

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Answer

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer

Francisco Pizarro

Question 6

Before the Columbian Exchange, which was only in the Old World?

Accepted Answer

horses

Answer

potatoes

Answer

tomatoes

Answer

tobacco

Question 7

What was the easternmost city da Gama reached?

Accepted Answer

Calicut

Answer

Malacca

Answer

Nagasaki

Answer

Macao

Question 8

Both Dias and da Gama sailed from which city?

Accepted Answer

Lisbon

Answer

Seville

Answer

Madeira

Answer

Melilla

Question 9

He explored the coast of Newfoundland in 1497.

Accepted Answer

John Cabot

Answer

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Answer

Juan Ponce de Leon

Answer

Robert de La Salle

Question 10

North & South America were named for him.

Accepted Answer

Amerigo Vespucci

Answer

Robert de La Salle

Answer

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Answer

Juan Ponce de Leon

Question 11

He was the first European to reach the Pacific through the New World.

Accepted Answer

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Answer

Robert de La Salle

Answer

Juan Ponce de Leon

Answer

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 12

He is credited in discovering North America, however, he never set foot in America.

Accepted Answer

Christopher Columbus

Answer

Juan Ponce de Leon

Answer

Robert de La Salle

Answer

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 13

He claimed Florida for Spain in 1513.

Accepted Answer

Juan Ponce de Leon

Answer

Christopher Columbus

Answer

Amerigo Vespucci

Answer

Robert de La Salle

Question 14

He was the first European to see the Grand Canyon.

Accepted Answer

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

Answer

Amerigo Vespucci

Answer

John Cabot

Answer

Christopher Columbus

Question 15

He was the French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France.

Accepted Answer

Robert de La Salle

Answer

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

Answer

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Answer

Juan Ponce de Leon

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