The Age of Exploration

Age of Exploration

What occurred when the Spanish and American civilizations interacted?

Multiple Choice

Reasons for Spanish exploration - 3 G's

→ "Gold, God and Glory"

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Theory that a nation's economic strength came from protecting and increasing it's home economy by keeping strict control over it's colonial trade

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Spanish and Portuguese explorers who sailed to the Americas

• Sailors

• conquistadors

• missionaries

Multiple Choice

Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec empire

• Hernando Cortez

• Francisco Pizzaro

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Multiple Choice

This played a big part in Aztec religion - human ________

• Christianity

• Sacrifice

• wealth

Multiple Choice

Emperor of the Aztecs

• Montezuma II

• Mantzina

• Cortez

Multiple Choice

How was Montezuma II killed?

• Conquistadors

• Rocks were thrown at him by his own people

• Gold, God and Glory

Open Ended

In the video, Cortes with only 500 men was able to defeat the Atzec empire . How was he able to do it?