Deck 2: Old Worlds, New Worlds

Question 1

The Portuguese contributions to the European impact on the Americas included all of the following
EXCEPT

A) their leadership in expanding knowledge of the geography of the Atlantic.
B) their skills in ship design and oceanic navigation.
C) the routes for trade opened by Dias and da Gama.
D) the patterns for trade in African slaves.

Answer 1

the routes for trade opened by Dias and da Gama.

Question 2

Which Spanish explorer led the first official expedition to the North American mainland?

A) Pánfilo de Narváez
B) Ponce de Leó n
C) Alvar Nú -ez Cabeza de Vaca
D) Francisco Vázquez de Coronado

Answer 2

Ponce de Leó n

Question 3

Although the Aztec eventually drove Cortés and his conquistadors out of their capital city of Tenochtitlán, it eventually fell to siege primarily because of the

A) military technology of the Spanish.
B) infectious diseases brought by the Spanish.
C) rigid political centralization of the Aztecs, which meant that to capture the emperor was to conquer the
Empire.
D bloody religious system of the Aztecs, which contributed to how rapidly the Spanish stress on Christian
) virtue won converts among Indian peasants.

Answer 3

infectious diseases brought by the Spanish.

Question 4

On what island, off the coast of what is now South Carolina, did Jean Ribault and 150 Huguenots established a simple village?

A) Hilton Head
B) Tybee
C) Parris
D) Daufuskie

Question 5

England's thrust into North America-an interest renewed nearly a century after Cabot's voyages-can be understood in the context of a direct challenge to Spanish power. This challenge "fused" three elements, including all of the following EXCEPT

A) English nationalism.
B) English Protestantism.
C) English political instability.
D) English economic enterprise.

Question 6

The nation of ________ led the way in exploring beyond Europe's known waters using the caravel, a lighter, more maneuverable ship.

Question 7

Discuss conditions that encouraged early modern Europeans to undertake voyages of exploration and discovery.

Question 8

How did Portuguese exploration prepare the way for the Spanish discovery of North America?

Question 9

Compare and contrast Aztec society in the fifteenth century with that of early modern Europe.

Question 10

How did Spain's colonial empire influence the development of western Europe during the sixteenth century?

Question 11

Characterize the conditions and changes in sixteenth-century Europe that contributed to the Protestant Reformation.

Question 12

What primary factors accounted for the rivalry between England and Spain in the late sixteenth century?

Question 13

What factor was most essential in encouraging early modern Europeans to undertake voyages of discovery in exploration?

Question 14

Could the direction of discovery and colonization in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have been reversed-that is, could the Aztecs have discovered and colonized western Europe? Why or why not?

Question 15

To what extent were the English adventurers and the Spanish conquistadors "brothers under the skin"? In what ways were the roles they played similar, from the point of view of the royal governments of England and Spain?

Question 16

Consider the motives of early English promoters of colonization, like Gilbert and Raleigh. To what extent were such men motivated by idealistic goals? To what extent by economic interests?

Question 17

"Adventurers such as Christopher Columbus and John Cabot were only the most visible representatives of a much larger expansion of European peoples and culture that began in the 1450s."
Briefly explain the changes in European society that led to that expansion.
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