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Unit 2 Exploration and Colonization - Quiz
Contributed by: Marcus
  • 1. What year did Christopher Columbus land in North America?
A) 2016
B) 1592
C) 1492
D) 1992
E) 1892
  • 2. Who was the ruler of the Aztec city, Tonochtitlan?
A) Danish
B) Christopher Columbus
C) Vikings
D) Montezuma II
E) Marco Polo
  • 3. This is made by charging more than what someone paid for a product.
A) barter
B) profit
C) merchants
  • 4. Finding direction and following routes at sea.
A) navigation
B) technology
C) exploring
D) Equator
  • 5. The movement of people, plants, animals, and diseases across the Atlantic Ocean.
A) Bed well Exchange
B) Columbian Exchange
C) Spanish Exchange
D) Marcus Exchange
  • 6. One of the largest cities in the world by the year 1500.
A) Gulf of Mexico
B) Cortes
C) Tenochtitlan
D) Mexico City
  • 7. Which empire ruled much of South America?
A) Mayan Empire
B) Aztec Empire
C) Inca Empire
D) Bedwell Empire
E) Marcus Empire
  • 8. How did the Incan Society pay for goods.
A) Providing services
B) Paying with gold and silver
C) Paying with paper money
  • 9. Who was Ponce de Leon?
A) Searched for North America
B) Searched for the Fountain of Youth
C) Searched for the frontier
D) Searched for the nearest gas station
  • 10. Which explorer claimed large areas of land for Spain?
A) de Vaca
B) missionary
C) conquistador
D) Spaniards
E) Coronado
  • 11. A person who tries to persuade people to accept new religious beliefs.
A) missionary
B) Native Americans
C) slavers
D) settlers
  • 12. What did explorers think was the Northwest Passage?
A) A land route across North America.
B) A land route across South America.
C) A water route across North America.
D) A water route across South America.
  • 13. The Northwest Passage was thought to connect what two large bodies of water?
A) The Atlantic to the Mississippi River.
B) The Atlantic to the Pacific
C) The Pacific to the Mississippi River.
D) The Atlantic to the Greentown Reservoir.
  • 14. Which country founded the first merchant company?
A) Danish
B) Spanish
C) Dutch
D) African
E) French
  • 15. Which country wanted to establish a permanent settlement in America called New France?
A) America
B) Spain
C) Africa
D) Denmark
E) France
  • 16. Which country was an ally to the Wyandot and Algonquin tribes?
A) France
B) Africa
C) Denmark
D) Spain
E) America
  • 17. Who was called the couriers de bois?
A) trappers and fishermen
B) hunters and fishermen
C) trappers and sleepers
D) hunters and sleepers
E) hunters and trappers
  • 18. An official document that grants its holder special rights.
A) cash crop
B) charter
C) indentured servant
D) pilgrim
E) sachem
  • 19. What was Jamestown's first government called?
A) House of Burgesses
B) House of McDonald's
C) House of Cards
D) House of Jamestown
  • 20. What ship arrived in Plymouth in 1620?
A) Pinta
B) Greentown Express
C) Santa Maria
D) Nina
E) Mayflower
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