8/3/26, 7:42 PM Exam # 1: HST 309: Exploration and Empire (2026 Summer B)
Exam # 1
HST 309: Exploration and Empire
Due Jul 13 at 11:59pm
Points 50 (2026 Summer B)
Questions 25
Available until Jul 13 at 11:59pm
Exams 1 & 2 (merged)
Time Limit 20 Minutes
Instructions
Please select the best answer to the following questions:
This quiz was locked Jul 13 at 11:59pm.
Attempt History
Attempt Time Score
LATEST Attempt 1 5 minutes 50 out of 50
Score for this quiz: 50 out of 50
Submitted Jul 7 at 5:57pm
This attempt took 5 minutes.
Correct answer
Question 1
2 /2 pts
Why did the Chinese emperor Yongle send Zheng He on seven voyages in the early fifteenth century?
To explore and map the globe.
To discover new lands.
To project power and gain tribute from neighboring states.
To conquer the New World.
Correct answer
Question 2
2/2pts
What was the intellectual temper of the sixteenth century?
open and curious.
conservative and respectful of authority
skeptical and intellectually rigorous
timid and close minded
Correct answer
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Question 3
2/2pts
Why does J.H. Parry call this time period "The Age of Reconnaissance"?
Because the voyages were not about discovery for its own sake. It was a time of was a time of tentative beginnings.
Because the voyages were about mapping the unknown world.
Because it reflects the broader context in which the voyages of discovery took place.
Parry actually believes that the better term is "The Age of Discovery."
Correct answer
Question 4
2/2pts
Which of the following is not one of Prince Henry's motives for sponsoring exploration?
to take back Jerusalem for Christendom
to gain profitable trade with Christians
To achieve traditional crusading goals.
to fulfill the predictions of his horroscope
Correct answer
Question 5
2/2pts
What was the fate of the Muslim ship Miri after encountering Vasco da Gama's fleet?
After an intense battle at sea Vasco da Gama's men boarded the Miri and executed all on board except two wealthy
women who offered the Portuguese large sums of money for their lives.
An initially friendly encounter went sour after the ship's captain insulted da Gama and Christianity.
It was robbed and all of its passengers, almost all civilians including women and children, was set on fire and sank.
It was highjacked by da Gama's men all it with its cargo of spices sailed for Portugual.
Correct answer
Question 6
2/
2 pts
Why did the Portuguese Crown reject Columbus's proposal to sail west to Asia”?
Because he was Italian.
Because they did not believe that the Earth was round.
Because they knew that Columbus's calculations for the size of the globe were wrong.
Because Columbus had no sailing experience.
Correct answer
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Question 7
2/2pts
The Treaty of Alcacovas
ended the war between the Portuguese and the Dutch.
allowed Spain to explore to the west and Portugal to the east.
gave Portugal and Spain the power to convert and rule over the non-Christian populations that they encountered.
gave the Portuguese a monopoly on fishing, trade and navigation along the whole west African coast.
Correct answer
Question 8
2/2pts
Pope Alexander VI issued four bulls after Columbus's voyage that
gave Ferdinand and Isabella exclusive rights to all territories discovered by Spain.
condemmed the voyage to pagan lands.
denounced the Spanish crown for its brazen violation of the Treaty of Tordesillas.
divided the globe with an imaginary line, giving Spain dominion over the territories to the west of that line and giving
Portugal dominion over territories east of that line.
Correct answer
Question 9
2 /2 pts
What had been the principal object of European exploration?
empire
discovery for its own sake
seaborne commerce
a need for natural resources
Correct answer
Question 10
2/2pts
Claudius Ptolemy
was a fifteenth-century Egyptian scholar.
was a second-century Hellenized Egyptian scholar.
was the first European explorer to advance south past the equator.
was the primary chronicler of Vasco da Gama's voyage around the globe.
Correct answer
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Exam # 1
HST 309: Exploration and Empire
Due Jul 13 at 11:59pm
Points 50 (2026 Summer B)
Questions 25
Available until Jul 13 at 11:59pm
Exams 1 & 2 (merged)
Time Limit 20 Minutes
Instructions
Please select the best answer to the following questions:
This quiz was locked Jul 13 at 11:59pm.
Attempt History
Attempt Time Score
LATEST Attempt 1 5 minutes 50 out of 50
Score for this quiz: 50 out of 50
Submitted Jul 7 at 5:57pm
This attempt took 5 minutes.
Correct answer
Question 1
2 /2 pts
Why did the Chinese emperor Yongle send Zheng He on seven voyages in the early fifteenth century?
To explore and map the globe.
To discover new lands.
To project power and gain tribute from neighboring states.
To conquer the New World.
Correct answer
Question 2
2/2pts
What was the intellectual temper of the sixteenth century?
open and curious.
conservative and respectful of authority
skeptical and intellectually rigorous
timid and close minded
Correct answer
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Question 3
2/2pts
Why does J.H. Parry call this time period "The Age of Reconnaissance"?
Because the voyages were not about discovery for its own sake. It was a time of was a time of tentative beginnings.
Because the voyages were about mapping the unknown world.
Because it reflects the broader context in which the voyages of discovery took place.
Parry actually believes that the better term is "The Age of Discovery."
Correct answer
Question 4
2/2pts
Which of the following is not one of Prince Henry's motives for sponsoring exploration?
to take back Jerusalem for Christendom
to gain profitable trade with Christians
To achieve traditional crusading goals.
to fulfill the predictions of his horroscope
Correct answer
Question 5
2/2pts
What was the fate of the Muslim ship Miri after encountering Vasco da Gama's fleet?
After an intense battle at sea Vasco da Gama's men boarded the Miri and executed all on board except two wealthy
women who offered the Portuguese large sums of money for their lives.
An initially friendly encounter went sour after the ship's captain insulted da Gama and Christianity.
It was robbed and all of its passengers, almost all civilians including women and children, was set on fire and sank.
It was highjacked by da Gama's men all it with its cargo of spices sailed for Portugual.
Correct answer
Question 6
2/
2 pts
Why did the Portuguese Crown reject Columbus's proposal to sail west to Asia”?
Because he was Italian.
Because they did not believe that the Earth was round.
Because they knew that Columbus's calculations for the size of the globe were wrong.
Because Columbus had no sailing experience.
Correct answer
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Question 7
2/2pts
The Treaty of Alcacovas
ended the war between the Portuguese and the Dutch.
allowed Spain to explore to the west and Portugal to the east.
gave Portugal and Spain the power to convert and rule over the non-Christian populations that they encountered.
gave the Portuguese a monopoly on fishing, trade and navigation along the whole west African coast.
Correct answer
Question 8
2/2pts
Pope Alexander VI issued four bulls after Columbus's voyage that
gave Ferdinand and Isabella exclusive rights to all territories discovered by Spain.
condemmed the voyage to pagan lands.
denounced the Spanish crown for its brazen violation of the Treaty of Tordesillas.
divided the globe with an imaginary line, giving Spain dominion over the territories to the west of that line and giving
Portugal dominion over territories east of that line.
Correct answer
Question 9
2 /2 pts
What had been the principal object of European exploration?
empire
discovery for its own sake
seaborne commerce
a need for natural resources
Correct answer
Question 10
2/2pts
Claudius Ptolemy
was a fifteenth-century Egyptian scholar.
was a second-century Hellenized Egyptian scholar.
was the first European explorer to advance south past the equator.
was the primary chronicler of Vasco da Gama's voyage around the globe.
Correct answer
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