Question

The trans-Atlantic flow of people and goods such as corn, potatoes, horses, and sugar cane is called...

a. Globalization

b.The Columbian Exchange

c.The Global Circuit

d.The Atlantic System

e.Trade

2. What motivated the Portuguese to begin exploration to find a water route to Asia?

a. To prove the world was round

b. Sailing for the Catholic Church to spread Christianity

c.To establish land empires in India and China

d.To eliminate the Italian and Middle Eastern “middlemen” in the spice trade

e.To search for gold

3. Of the approximately 10 million men, women, and children who came from the old World to the New World between 1492 and 1820, how many were African slaves?

a.2.4 million

b. 5.3 million

c. 7.7 million

d. 9.1 million

e.100,000

4. The Indian population in Spanish America declined due to

a. enslavement

b. war

c. disease

d. All of the above

e. None of the above

5. Which European country came to North America for trade and prided themselves on their devotion to liberty?

a. France

b. The Netherlands

c. Britain

d. Spain

e. Portugal

6. The first permanent European settlement in the Southwest, established in 1610, was

a. Tucson

b. Albuquerque

c. El Paso

d. San Diego

e. Santa Fe

Answer 1

1. the columbian exchange as this is the perfect definition of the columbian exchange
2. To eliminate the italian and middle eastern middlemen in the spice trade as by land trade included them and they charged a lot hence to avoid them a direct route from sea was explored
3. 7.7 million as the historical data mentions it
4. Diseases as the major reason of decline was this only
5. France as it started the trade with north america and spread awareness about their catholic liberty
6. Santa fe as it was the first european settlement in the southwest which was permanent and it developed in 1610