Question 1
What was the primary motivation for European exploration in the 15th and 16th centuries?
Correct Answer:
Finding new trade routes to Asia for spices and luxury goods
Question 2
Who led the first European expedition to circumnavigate the globe, completing the voyage in 1522?
Correct Answer:
Ferdinand Magellan
Question 3
The Columbian Exchange refers to which historical phenomenon?
Correct Answer:
The transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas between the Americas and Europe/Africa/Asia after 1492
Question 4
The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 facilitated the 'Scramble for Africa' by establishing what?
Correct Answer:
Rules for European powers to divide Africa among themselves
Question 5
What was the 'Triangle Trade' that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
Correct Answer:
Trade in manufactured goods, enslaved Africans, and American commodities
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