European Exploration and Settlement

European Exploration and Settlement

Open Ended

What Ideas and inventions encourage Europeans to begin overseas exploration?

Multiple Choice

Why were western European leaders interested in finding new routes to Asia in the 1400s?

• They wanted to obtain luxury goods at lower prices.

• They wanted to spread their religion to new lands.

• They wanted to study new navigational technologies.

• They wanted to establish colonies for selling goods.

Multiple Choice

Which country had such centralized control over its colonies that it required settlements to be designed like its villages at home?

• France

• England

• Spain

• Netherlands

Multiple Choice

Why did France sponsor Giovanni da Verrazano’s exploration?

• France wanted him to circumnavigate the globe.

• France wanted a Northwest Passage for faster trade routes.

• France wanted to explore the South American coastline.

• France wanted to establish contacts with Native Americans.

Multiple Choice

Who controlled the trade in luxury goods between western Europe and Asia by 1200 C.E.?

• Spain

• England

• The Netherlands

• Italy

Multiple Choice

What was the primary goal of Jesuits in New France?

• to trade for fur with Native Americans

• to convert Native Americans to Christianity

• to conquer Native Americans and establish colonies

• to search Native American lands for a Northwest Passage

Multiple Choice

England’s southern colonies mainly used what types of settlements?

• small towns

• plantations

• family farms

• trading posts

Multiple Choice

Why was the caravel important to European exploration?

• It made sailing long distances faster and easier.

• It protected voyages with military technology.

• It helped navigators determine position.

• It showed the direction of magnetic north.

Multiple Choice

Which activity in North America was more important to the French and the Dutch than it was to the Spanish?

• religious conversion

• trading with Native Americans

• establishing colonies

• conquest of land