Age of Exploration/Discovery

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What was the name of the time period from the 1400 - 1600s, when Europeans began to explore the world?

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The Age of Exploration

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In the 1400's Why did European Merchants want a direct trade route to Asia?

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Muslim kingdoms and traders controlled interior trade routes through Asia and Africa.

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What effect might Portugal’s explorations have had on other European nations?

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Other European nations may have been inspired to explore ocean routes to Asia themselves.

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The three main motives for exploration were: Disease, land, goods and ideas; Maps, exchange of goods, farming; economic, gold, natural resources; Gold, God, and Glory

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Gold, God, and Glory

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Which technological advances allowed the Age of Exploration to happen? Options: caravel, magnetic compass, astrolabe, all of the above

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all of the above

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This technological advancement of the Age of Exploration allowed ships to go in any direction because of its triangular shape.

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Lateen sail

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This explorer is credited with the discovery of the "New World" because his voyages marked the beginning of exploration to the Americas.

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Christoper Columbus

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Which of the following would the Portuguese need in order to grow more sugar in their new colonies? A large number of factories, A large fleet of ships, Spain to let them, A large labor force

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A large labor force

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Which countries explored to find faster trade routes to Asia in order to compete with Portugal and Spain? France, The Netherlands, England, All of the above.

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All of the above.

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Which European explorer (conquistador) conquered the Aztecs?

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Cortes