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Study Guide for Unit 2 Test

Study Guide for Unit 2 Test. Answers. 1) What factors contributed to the discovery of lands in the Western Hemisphere? Economic competition between European empires 2) What were three major reasons for Europeans of the 15 th and 16 th centuries to attempt exploration of unknown regions?

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Study Guide for Unit 2 Test

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  1. Study Guide for Unit 2 Test Answers

  2. 1) What factors contributed to the discovery of lands in the Western Hemisphere? Economic competition between European empires 2) What were three major reasons for Europeans of the 15th and 16th centuries to attempt exploration of unknown regions? Competition for wealth, power, and spread of Christianity 3) What allowed Spain and Portugal to divide the world between them? A. The Treaty of Tordesillas

  3. 4) Which country was the first European nation to start explorations and where did they start? Portugal; started on the west coast of Africa 5) Name of the explorer from question 4? Bartolomeu Dias 6) Who financed the first Portuguese explorations? Prince Henry 7) Name of a ship authorized by a govt. to attack enemy shipping, non naval vessel? A. privateer

  4. 8) Name given to Spanish explorers who desired fame, gold, and adventure? Conquistadores 9) Name of the trade organization founded by Dutch merchants? Dutch East India Company 10) Impact of Columbian Exchange on indigenous peoples of Western Hemisphere? The death of many American Indians from smallpox . 11) Ferdinand Magellan explored for? A. Portugal

  5. 12) Who received credit for establishing the 1st permanent colonies in the Americas? Columbus 13) 2nd person to circumnavigate the world? Drake 14) Majority of 17th century African slaves sent where in the New World? Caribbean Islands 15) Name of the Peninsula where the Ottoman Empire spread? A. Balkan Peninsula

  6. 16) Istanbul was the capital of which empire or country in 16th century? Ottoman Empire 17) Which group built the TajMahal? The Mughal Empire 18) Who are the group known as shoguns? Military leaders from Japan 19) What goods did the west African empires trade? A. Gold and salt

  7. 20) What is mercantilism? The idea that a nation’s power is related to its wealth and needs a favorable balance of trade with its colonies. 21) What is the name of the largest Muslim Empire in the 1500s? Ottoman Empire 22) Name the two empires which were isolationist? Ming and Tokugawa 23) Where were the Dutch allowed to trade from in Japan? A. Nagasaki

  8. 24) What did the Columbian Exchange introduce to the Europeans? Corn 25)What was the name of the 16th century Empire located in South America? Incan 26) Who landed at San Salvador Island in 1492? Columbus 27) Who conquered the Aztecs? A. Hernando Cortez

  9. 28) Who found the route to India by sea? Vasco da Gama 29) Who was the first to discover the mainland of South America? Amerigo Vespucci 30) This is used to grow and export crops in large quantities Plantations 31) What are the features of Capitalism? A. Nations seek to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver, and by selling more goods than they bought.

  10. 32) What is it called when one country is kept from dominating others politically and militarily? A. Favorable balance of power

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