Deck 2: Exploration and Conquest

Question 1

Who was the first explorer to sight the Pacific Ocean?

A) Bartolomeu Dias
B) Henry the Navigator
C) Vasco Núñez de Balboa
D) Samuel de Champlain

Answer 1

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Question 2

Who led the voyages shown in the map?

A) Vasco da Gama
B) Walter Raleigh
C) Leif Erikson
D) Christopher Columbus

Answer 2

Christopher Columbus

Question 3

According to the video in the introduction,European expansion in the fifteenth century was motivated by a desire to find a route to the __________.

A) Caribbean
B) South Pacific
C) Americas
D) Indies

Answer 3

Indies

Question 4

Columbus proposed that the shortest route to Asia was to sail __________.

A) northward
B) southward
C) westward
D) eastward

Question 5

According to the introductory video in section 2.1,who captured Constantinople in 1453?

A) Ottoman Turks
B) Roman senators
C) Spanish conquistadors
D) Inca priests

Question 6

Which of the following reflects Spain's goals in the Americas?

A) science and technology
B) tolerance and equality
C) justice and peace
D) God and gold

Question 7

Which country took the lead in launching exploratory voyages in the Atlantic in the fifteenth century?

A) Spain
B) Britain
C) Portugal
D) France

Question 8

Which of the following countries remained Catholic during the Protestant Reformation?

A) Scotland
B) Spain
C) Scandinavia
D) England

Question 9

Which of the following contributed to Hernan Cortés's conquest of the Aztecs?

A) Cortés had more ships.
B) Cortés had indigenous allies.
C) The Aztecs were fighting with the Incas.
D) The Aztec ruler was a child.

Question 10

What is the name of the ship shown in the image?

A) caravel
B) codex
C) cargo
D) ingot

Question 11

According to the introductory video in section 2.1,the fall of Constantinople set off a chain of events that contributed to the __________.

A) Dark Ages
B) Renaissance
C) Age of Faith
D) Crusades

Question 12

The conquests of Francisco Pizarro added the lands of which modern-day country to New Spain?

A) Peru
B) Mexico
C) United States
D) Cuba

Question 13

What did Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro both do?

A) establish centers to preserve indigenous traditions
B) fund public projects to promote Christopher Columbus
C) redistribute their wealth to the indigenous poor
D) hold hostage the ruler of the empire they conquered

Question 14

Which country sponsored Columbus's voyages?

A) Portugal
B) Britain
C) France
D) Spain

Question 15

After the fall of Constantinople,most scholars and artists left and migrated in which direction?

A) south
B) north
C) west
D) east

Question 16

What did Columbus name the island that he landed on in 1492?

A) San Salvador
B) Bahamas
C) Cuba
D) New Spain

Question 17

Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro were both __________.

A) Moors
B) Huguenots
C) conquistadors
D) slaves

Question 18

According to the introductory video in section 2.2,what evidence suggests that learned Europeans knew that the earth was round?

A) Marco Polo had gone around the entire world during his travels.
B) Ancient Greek scholars had measured the earth's circumference.
C) The Crusaders discovered evidence that the earth was a sphere.
D) Alexander the Great's empire encompassed the entire world.

Question 19

According to the introductory video in 2.4,in the late sixteenth century,the English monarchy required all ships to be close at hand to deal with the threat from which country?

A) France
B) Russia
C) Austria
D) Spain

Question 20

According to the introductory video in section 2.3,where did Hernán Cortés go to find gold?

A) Mexico
B) Peru
C) Roanoke
D) Canada

Question 21

In the sixteenth century,which country hoped to find a northern passage to the Pacific and the Indies?

A) France
B) Spain
C) Portugal
D) Italy

Question 22

Identify specific Europeans who participated in the exploration and conquest of the Americas,and explain how each one advanced the interests of the rulers that sponsored their voyages.

Question 23

What was the goal of mercantilist policies?

A) provide public relief for the poor
B) support the arts and sciences
C) limit the power of the state
D) increase the wealth of the state

Question 24

Who held the title of Protector of the Indians?

A) Moctezuma
B) Bartolomé de las Casas
C) Atahualpa
D) Martin Luther

Question 25

Puritans and Huguenots are both __________.

A) Protestant
B) Catholic
C) Moors
D) Jewish

Question 26

Who would have been the most critical of the activities carried out by the Spanish conquistadors in the Americas?

A) Ferdinand and Isabellla
B) Bartolomé de las Casas
C) Hernán Cortés
D) Francisco Pizarro

Question 27

Which country had the largest empire in the Americas in the sixteenth century?

A) Britain
B) France
C) Portugal
D) Spain

Question 28

What was the relationship between religion and politics in sixteenth-century Europe?

Question 29

The description of the Spaniards in Bartolomé de las Casas's The Devastation of the Indies and the codices both draw attention to the Spaniards' __________.

A) divinity
B) humanity
C) greed
D) laziness

Question 30

Despite their differences,Protestants and Catholics placed their faith in the __________.

A) Catholic Church
B) Church of England
C) Bible
D) pope

Question 31

According to the Codex Ramirez and Codex Aubin,the Spaniards viciously attacked the Aztecs during what event?

A) St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
B) Protestant Reformation
C) Renaissance
D) Fiesta of Toxcatl

Question 32

The oral histories that reflect the Indian perspective of the Spanish conquest of the Americas are recorded in __________.

A) ingots
B) sacraments
C) codices
D) caravels

Question 33

The image shows the first meeting between Moctezuma and __________.

A) Christopher Columbus
B) Bartolomé de las Casas
C) Hernán Cortés
D) Walter Raleigh

Question 34

According to the How Do We Know? video in section 2.5,what did Columbus do to persuade his crew to continue on with the voyage?

A) appeal to their self-interest
B) threaten to commit suicide
C) throw a sailor overboard
D) imprison anyone who spoke

Question 35

Which of the following played a central role in the collection of oral histories of Indian accounts of the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century?

A) missionaries
B) conquistadors
C) mercantilists
D) Huguenots

Question 36

The Past and Present video in section 2.5 draws a parallel between the motives of the Europeans in the colonization of the Americas to the foreign policy decisions of which country today?

A) Iraq
B) Germany
C) United States
D) China

Question 37

According to the Arguing History video in section 2.5,the European conquest of the Americas was driven by __________.

A) a fear of diseases
B) a combination of motives
C) supernatural forces
D) technological change

Question 38

To what extent was Spain the most powerful country in Europe during the sixteenth century?

Question 39

Who was the ruler of the Aztec empire when the Spanish conquest began?

A) Atahualpa
B) Moctezuma
C) Henry VIII
D) Elizabeth

Question 40

In mercantilism,which of the following is considered to hold the highest value?

A) labor
B) gold
C) stocks
D) bonds