1. What was a long-term consequence of the catastrophic bubonic plague in Europe?

2. Exploration and territorial expansion became popular with Europeans in the fifteenth century because

3. Which technological advance aided European explorers by 1400?

4. Christopher Columbus, like most educated Europeans, believed that

5. How did Ferdinand and Isabella react to Columbus’s first voyage?

6. In the early 1500s, Martin Waldseemüller was among the very first to understand that

7. Which factor helped the Spaniards conquer the Mexicans in the sixteenth century?

8. How did Spain benefit from settling Florida in the mid-sixteenth century?

9. Which European power dominated the New World during the 1500s?

10. How did King Charles I (later Holy Roman Emperor Charles V) and his successors use the wealth of New Spain?

11. Martin Luther and the Catholic Church disagreed on

12. What was the result of Charles V’s and Philip II’s extensive warfare?
a, Spain reached unprecedented levels of wealth.
b. Most Spaniards were ashamed of their nation.
c. Spain became debt-free for the first time.
*d. The majority of Spaniards became impoverished.