Name___________________________

Review Sheet
On your assessment tomorrow, you can expect to answer multiple choice
questions, some of them based on sources, and to write a paragraph using
several sources (task style). To review, look over your notes and handouts
and complete the following sheet.
1. Using your notes, name two inventions that made the Age of
Exploration possible.

2. Name and define each of the three Gs of European Exploration

motivations.

3. What was the main motivation for Columbus, Vespucci, Magellan and
other early explorers? (HINT: They were trying to go somewhere in the
east).

4. Explain at least two reasons why European Explorers were able to

conquer Native Empires.

Match each vocabulary word with its definition.

A conqueror, especially
one of the Spanish
conquerors of Mexico and
Peru in the 16th century.
The conquistador who
conquered the Aztec.
The conquistador who
conquered the Inca.
A grant from the Spanish
rulers that said colonists
in Latin America could
demand that Indians work
for them.

Cortes

Pizarro

Conquistador

Encomienda

5. How did Cortes treatment of Montezuma change after he first met

him?

6. Look at the image to the right.

Describe what you see in the image and
explain which of the three gs of
European motivations this image relates
to.

7. Look at the image to the right. Who do you

think is on top of the horse and who is under the
horse?

8. Use the image to the right to write an ICE

(introduce, cite, explain) style response to the
following question: Why were conquistadors
able to conquer native empires?