Unit 5 PreAP Test Review
Renaissance, Reformation, Exploration
CSCOPE part of the test – Tuesday, Feb 4
Non CSCOPE part of the test – Wednesday, Feb 5
1. You have already seen many of the questions that will be on your CSCOPE portion of the test
on Renaissance and Reformation – see the test you took on Renaissance/Reformation
2. What was the Renaissance?
3. What was the Reformation?
4. What was a direct result of the Renaissance?
5. What does secular mean?
6. What was a direct effect of the Reformation?
7. How did the Catholic Church respond to the Reformation?
8. What does humanism mean?
9. What were results of European exploration of the Americas?
10. What was the Columbian Exchange?
11. What was the main cause for the decline in population of native Americans?
12. What were the motivating reasons why Europeans explored and colonized Americas?
13. What were some results of the Atlantic slave trade?
14. How did the invention of the printing press contribute to the Reformation?
15. Where did the Ottoman Empire control trade?
16. What contributed to Europe’s Commercial Revolution?
17. What were the main achievements of the Maya?
18. What were the main achievements of the Aztec?
19. What were the main achievements of the Inca?
20. Where did the Spanish explore? Why there?
21. Where did the Portuguese explore? Why there?
22. Where did the English explore? Why there?
23. Where did the French explore? Why there?
24. Where did the Dutch explore? Why there?
25. Define favorable balance of trade.
26. Explain mercantilism.
27. How did slavery in Africa differ from slavery in Americas?
28. What did England win in the French and Indian War?
29. What helped the Spanish conquer the Aztecs?
30. What is Hernan Cortez known for?
31. What is the Columbian Exchange?
32. What motivated the Europeans to explore?
33. What was the first permanent English settlement?
34. What was the middle passage?
35. What was the purpose of the Treaty of Tordesillas?
36. What was the triangular trade?
37. Where did Columbus land?
38. Which ocean separates the Old World from the New World?
39. Which Spanish conquistador conquered the Incans?
40. Who fought the French and Indian War?
41. Who founded Plymouth, Massachusetts and why?
42. Who originally founded Jamestown?
43. Who originally founded Massachusetts?
44. Who originally founded New York?
45. Who originally founded Quebec?
46. Who was Zheng He?
47. Why did European rulers and merchants want to gain control of the islands in the Indies?
48. Why were Africans used as slave labor instead of Native Americans?
49. Which European country is responsible for bringing African slavery to the Americas?
50. What is the Forbidden City and who created it?
51. What was China’s goal for exploring?
52. Why did China stop exploring?
53. Explain the triangular trade.
54. Compare the relationship between the Natives and the French. The Natives and the English.
The Natives and the Spanish.