Unit 3
Unit Test Study Guide
1) Who was the Portuguese explorer who founded the city of Lima in Peru? Franciso Pizarro
2) What did missionaries want to do in the New World? Spread Christianity
3) Africans were taken from Africa to the Americas because of what three way system? Triangular
Trade
4) Conquistadors came from? Spain
5) Who was the Italian sailor who sailed for the English and is believed to have landed in
Newfoundland, Canada? John Cabot
6) What did Juan Ponce de Leon hope to find in the Americas? The Fountain of Youth
7) Who was the first person to sail around the world? Ferdinand Magellan
8) Who was the Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southern tip of Africa? Bartolomeu
Dias
9) A practice of a person who agrees to work for the colonists in exchange to go to the Americas is
called? Indentured Servitude
10) What was the purpose of the first expeditions from Europe to the Americas? To find new
sources of wealth
11) What present day state did Ponce de Leon discover in North America and claim for Spain?
Florida
12) The Inca Empire was located in what modern-day country? Peru
13) Who was the leader of the Aztecs at the time of Cortes’ arrival? Montezuma
14) Which country became the richest country in Europe because of the Age of Exploration? Spain
15) Who started a school in Portugal for sailing, mapmaking, and navigation? Prince Henry the
Navigator
16) Sailors could calculate their location based on the position of the sun and the stars in relation to
the horizon with what instrument? astrolabe
17) Which European country was the first to send out Explorers? Portugal
18) The ultimate goal of the early Portuguese explorers was to? Find a water route around
Africa to India
19) Christopher Columbus set sail to find? A new faster trade route to Asia.
20) The goals of the Age of Exploration were? To spread Christianity, to expand world ideas,
to acquire goods.
21) Spanish explorer Vasco Balboa is credited with? Being the first European to see the Pacific
Ocean.
22) What was an obstacle faced by the explorers? Fear of the unknown, disease, starvation,
poor maps, poor navigation tools.
23) What was the Treaty of Tordesillas? The treaty between Spain and Portugal giving Spain
all lands to the West and Portugal all discovered lands to the east.
24) Planters in the Americas began to use African slaves for labor because? Disease had killed
millions of the natives.
25) European traders sent Africans to the Americas to? Work as slaves on plantations.
26) What was the global exchange of people, plants, ideas and technology that began in the late
1400s? Columbian Exchange
27) Name one reason the Spanish conquistadors were able to conquer the Aztec and Inca Empires?
The Spanish had better weapons.