Exam 2: The Rise of the Atlantic World

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Armada, Philip II

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the North Atlantic region that correctly identifies each of the following: Greenland

Compare the experiences of the first English settlements: Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth. What were their motivations for settlement? What problems did the settlers face, and how, if at all, did they overcome them? What lessons did the English learn from their experiences in each colony?

In French, English, and Spanish colonies, interracial unions between Europeans and slaves or Native Americans were

Why was John Rolfe important to the eventual success of the Jamestown settlement?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. John Cabot, Amerigo Vespucci

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. P redestination

European peasant life encompassed all of the following new hardships in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries EXCEPT:

Choose the correct statement below about European explorers and their expeditions:

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the United States that correctly identifies each of the following: St. Augustine, Florida

Discuss the "new slavery" that emerged in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. What nations were involved? What were the reasons for the slave trade? How did it affect African societies and politics? How did the "new slavery" differ from previous slavery?

Why were the English late in joining the European expansion that began in the sixteenth century? What factors eventually stimulated English expansion? How did the goals and techniques of the English differ from those of other European nations? To what extent were they similar?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Sugar

In the 1570s, what were England's objectives in the Western Hemisphere?

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of Europe that correctly identifies each of the following: Portugal

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Renaissance

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Ferdinand Magellan

Who broke with the Catholic Church and persuaded Parliament to create the Church of England?

Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the North Atlantic region that correctly identifies each of the following: New England

Hernán Cortés and the Aztecs battled for control of the Aztec empire, but what ultimately enabled Cortés's victory?