Age of Exploration

Which of the following is not a motive for exploration?

• God
• Glory
• Gold
• Gummies

Why did Europeans want spices from Asia?

• Spices help preserve food and mask flavors of spoiled food.
• Spices were not grown in Europe, so they had to be traded with Asian markets.
• Spices were used in making medicine, perfumes, and incenses.
• all of the above

What were early Portuguese explorers trying to find?

• a passage to India by land
• a way to the South Pole
• a new trade route to India by sea
• a new school in Portugal

Which was NOT a European motive for exploration?

• wealth
• religious conversion
• spread disease
• economic opportunity

Many of the first European explorers went exploring in search of gold and riches.
True or False

• True
• False

Columbus thought that he had arrived at  ___________, and therefore called the Natives he met Indians.

• Cathay
• Africa
• America
• India

Who were the major players in European exploration?

• England, Portugal, Spain
• England, Italy, Egypt
• Portugal, Spain, Sweden 
• India, France, Greece

I believed I could reach Asia by traveling west across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492.  I asked the king and queen of Spain to pay for my journey.

• Cabot
• de Leon
• Columbus
• Cortes

Columbus went _____________ from Europe to try to reach Asia. 

• north
• south
• east
• west

What is the Spanish word for conqueror?

• technology
• conquistador
• settlement
• circumnavigate