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Chapter 2: Exploring the Americas
      
  1.The period of intellectual and artistic creativity in Europe is known as the __________.  
  a.   Restoration  
  b.   Reformation  
  c.   Demarcation  
  d.   Renaissance  
      
  2.A vast trading empire developed in West Africa between 400 and 1100. It was __________.  
  a.   Ghana  
  b.   Songhai  
  c.   Mali  
  d.   Morocco  
      
  3.Mali’s greatest king was __________.  
  a.   Timbuktu  
  b.   Mansa Musa  
  c.   Askiya Muhammad  
  d.   Almoravid  
      
  4.The first European explorer to reach India by sailing around the Cape of Good Hope was __________.  
  a.   Bartholomeu Dias  
  b.   Vasco Núñez de Balboa  
  c.   Vasco da Gama  
  d.   Henry the Navigator  
      
  5.Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition was the first to __________.  
  a.   discover a Northwest Passage  
  b.   circumnavigate the globe  
  c.   explore Florida  
  d.   seek the Seven Cities of Cibola  
      
  6.The conquistador who conquered the Aztec was __________.  
  a.   Hernán Cortés  
  b.   Juan Ponce de León  
  c.   Francisco Pizarro  
  d.   Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca  
      
  7.A presidio was a __________.  
  a.   mission  
  b.   town  
  c.   fort  
  d.   farm  
      
  8.Bartolomé de Las Casas pleaded for laws to protect __________.  
  a.   English colonists  
  b.   Native Americans  
  c.   enslaved Africans  
  d.   insulares  
      
  9.According to the theory of mercantilism, a nation’s power was based on __________.  
  a.   the size of its population  
  b.   the extent of its territory  
  c.   its type of government  
  d.   its wealth  
      
  10.The European country that first settled Manhattan Island was __________.  
  a.   France  
  b.   England  
  c.   the Netherlands  
  d.   Spain  

 





 
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