5th-Ch. 2 Lesson 1-Why did the Spanish explore the Americas?

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Which evidence might best explain why traveling long distances was dangerous?

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For weeks, the ships traveled across unknown waters.

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What is the meaning of the term navigation?

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the science of guiding a boat

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Why did European leaders begin to sponsor voyages of exploration?

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to find trade routes that did not go through the Middle East

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European leaders begin to sponsor voyages of exploration to find trade routes that did not go through the Middle East. Which evidence from the text supports the blue sentence above?

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In 1453, the Ottoman Turks captured Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey). They cut off most European trade through the Middle East.

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What did the Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation have in common?

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Both involved disagreements among members of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Which explorer traveled the farthest west into the “New World”?

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Ferdinand Magellan

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The explorer that traveled the farthest west into the "New World" was Ferdinand Magellan. Which evidence from the text supports the blue sentence above? Options: “His impressions were recorded in a book now called The Travels of Marco Polo, which further stirred people’s imaginations.”, “On his first voyage, Columbus sailed to several neighboring islands in addition to the Bahamas.”, “The name Americas began to be used for these lands in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, who sailed one of Columbus’s routes in 1499.”, “Another explorer, Ferdinand Magellan, named those waters the Pacific Ocean.”

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Another explorer, Ferdinand Magellan, named those waters the Pacific Ocean.

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The land claimed by Christopher Columbus and other explorers and conquistadors for Spain was called

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New Spain

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What indigenous group and empire did Hernan Cortes conquer?

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Aztecs

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What was the name of a large, architecturally impressive Aztec city?

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Tenochtitlan