Three Worlds Meet — Unit test Answers

Which best describes the Incas?

Which statement best explains the importance of the Age of Discovery?

How did Robert de La Salle help extend France’s influence in the Americas?

Spain and Portugal competed over territory in the Americas as a result of the voyages of

What did the Mayas develop?

Which culture was the first Mesoamerican civilization?

Which answer best describes the effects of the slave trade on the African people?

Which leader was defeated by Francisco Pizarro?

Which explorer is known for being the first to circumnavigate the globe, yet died in Asia before completing his journey?

One of the long-reaching effects of the Spanish conquest was the spread of what religion across the Americas?

Though the Aztecs held the most powerful empire in Central America, which Spanish advantage contributed to the Aztecs’ defeat?

Read this passage, which was written by a Spanish explorer in the 1500s.This great city of [Tenochtitlán] is situated in this salt lake . . . . There are four . . . entrances to the city, all of which are formed by artificial [walkways] . . . . The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets . . . are very wide and straight . . . . All the streets at intervals have openings, through which the water flows . . . and at these openings, some of which are very wide, there are also very wide bridges, composed of large pieces of timber, of great strength and well put together; on many of these bridges ten horses can go abreast.This quotation describes

Which items originated in the Americas and became European staples as a result of the Columbian Exchange?

What happened to Indigenous peoples in the Americas after 1492?

What caused Europe’s population to increase, to provoke its interest in trade, and provided its population with large amounts of gold and silver?