Age of Exploration

Conquered the Inca

• Hernan Cortes
• Christopher Columbus
• Jacques Cartier
• Francisco Pizarro

Conquered the Aztecs

• Hernan Cortes
• Christopher Columbus
• Jacques Cartier
• Francisco Pizarro

Main motivation for European exploration

• the need for Slave labor
• God, Gold, Glory
• to see if the earth was flat
• none of these are correct

Missionaries, forced conversion, and relocation is the main way this spread

• English language
• Christianity
• Smallpox
• livestock

The exchange of new goods, resources and ideas between east and west is called...

• Columbian Exchange
• Triangle trade
• Westward Expansion
• The Exploration Revolution

Goods left markets in Europe and were traded for slaves in Africa. Slaves were traded in the Americas for resources. Resources were brought back to Europe.

• Columbian Exchange
• Triangle Trade
• East/West Exchange

Reasons the Spanish easily conquered the Inca and Aztecs include all of the following except...

• Diseases
• Better weapons
• Christianity 
• Horses

What became more accurate as more explorers visited new places?

• oars
• astrolabe
• rudders
• maps

The Middle Passage was_______________?

• The exchange of goods, ideas, and diseases from the New World to Europe.
• The transport of Africans to the Americas by boat across the Atlantic ocean.
• Trading goods among three people.
• The transfer of cash crops to the Americas.

How were the Spanish conquistadors able to conquer the New World?

• They prayed for the Native Americans.
• They became friends and traded goods with the Native Americans.
• They used advanced weapons to take control of the Native Americans.
• They paid them gold to work building colonies for them.