Causes of European Exploration

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What were the causes of Exploration?

Choose all that apply...

• Desire for wealth and power.

• World domination.

• Desire to control the spice trade.

• Desire to spread Christianity. .

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Knowledge was made more readily available due to the invention of what product?

• Caravel

• Compass

• Printing Press

• Written language

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Knowledge of the sea and new inventions made sailing the high seas easier. Which invention made sailing the winds faster?

• Caravel

• Compass, sextant, astrolabe

• Printing Press

• Written language

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Colonies exist to benefit the mother country. This definition best fits which term?

• Caravel

• Free Enterprise

• Mercantilism

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Christopher Columbus discovered America but mistakenly thought he was in...

• Australia

• South America

• Antartica

• Asia

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Explorers after Columbus were searching for...

• the Northwest Passage: A way across the Americas to Asia

• The Lost City of Gold

• China

• spice racks

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Cause and Effect... Competition creates

• friendships

• border disputes

• conflict

• strife

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The super power of the world in the Exploration Era was?

• England

• Portugal

• France

• Spain

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People explored for all of the following reasons...

Choose all that apply

• religion

• wealth/power

• new routes to Asia

• for adventure

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For those of us in Texas, which two countries are the most important to us today?

• France and England

• Spain and Portugal

• Spain and England

• England and Portugal