Ch. 20 Quiz
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. Which of the following BEST explains how exploration contributed to the Scientific Revolution?
a. Exploration led Greek rationalists to focus on the powers of observation.
b. Exploration led scholars to create more accurate inventions.
c. Exploration led scholars to focus on the planets and the sun.
d. Exploration led scholars to challenge the thoughts of the ancient Greeks.
2. What was a result of European exploration between 1400s-1800s?
a. all of the above
b. mercantilism
c. imperialism
d. new trade routes like the Columbian Exchange
3. Between the late 1500s and the early 1800s, to which place were most enslaved people transported?
a. southern Europe
c. western Africa
b. all of Asia
d. the New World (North and South
America)
4. European countries obtained wood, cotton, furs, and dyes from their colonies. What conclusion can you draw
from this fact?
a. The countries did not want the colonies to have these things.
b. The countries had no other place from which to buy these things.
c. The countries were doing their best to help their colonies.
d. The countries used their colonies to acquire raw materials.
5. Which religion did European missionaries attempt to spread to the New World?
a. Islam
c. Hinduism
b. Christianity
d. Buddhism
6. Which animals were brought to the Americas by the Spanish?
a. horses
c. alligators
b. elephants
d. geese
7. The series of events that led to the birth of modern science is called
a. Greek rationalism.
c. the Scientific Revolution.
b. Renaissance humanism.
d. the scientific method.
8. What role did Muslims play in the Scientific Revolution?
a. Their artwork and literature inspired European thinkers.
b. They taught Greek ideas in Europe’s universities.
c. They developed rationalism.
d. Their translations of ancient Greek writings preserved ancient knowledge.
9. How did people in the Americas begin to grow sugar cane?
a. on plantations
c. the way it was grown in Africa
b. in small fields and plots
d. in their yards
10. Which of the following BEST describes how science influenced ideas about government?
a. Reason and science supported democratic ideas.
b. Science would make monarchies stronger.
c. Science did not change the role of religion in society.
d. Scientific discoveries supported the goals of a monarchy.
____ 11. What event first caused Renaissance scholars to doubt ancient Greek thought?
a. Columbus’s discovery of Asia
b. advances in astronomy
c. Columbus’s discovery of the Americas
d. Sir Isaac Newton’s publication of his laws
____ 12. What does it mean to circumnavigate the globe?
a. to sail from one continent to another
c. to sail to an unexplored part of the world
b. to sail from one hemisphere to another
d. to sail all the way around the world
Matching
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. Nicolaus Copernicus
b. England
c. theories
d. imperialism
e. the Netherlands
f. Johannes Kepler
g. mercantilism
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Galileo Galilei
triangle trade
colonialism
Columbian Exchange
logical
Portugal
three part trading route between Africa, the Americas, and Europe. This trading route was the result of
mercantilism.
extension of a nation’s territory by setting up settlements in a new area.
a system in which a government controls all economic activity in a country and its colonies to make the
government stronger and richer.
The exchange of plants, animals, and ideas between the New World and Old World.
territorial expansion of a nation because it is an empire. A country that controls another country or region.
Short Answer/Extended Response
18. FILL-IN
List at least two items Europe got from the Americas and at least two items America got from Europe.
19. Define the Triangle Trade. Who was involved? Who got what from whom? Explain in detail. What did the
Triangle Trade lead to?
20. How did imperialism, colonialism, and mercantilism affect Asia, Africa, and the Americas? Explain in detail
and list at least one effect on each area.