Age of Exploration and Colonization

Three motivations for European explorers: God, Gold, and ______.

• Grace
• Glory
• Greed
• Glaciers

Fast ship that could sail with & against the wind, large cargo area, and shallow hull that could navigate shallow water

• navigation ship
• caravel
• astrolabe
• compass

Conquistadors is a Spanish word meaning:

• to entrust
• to connect
• court
• conquerors

What was Christopher Columbus' purpose for exploration before discovering the New World?

• To find a faster and safer trading route to Asia
• To circumnavigate the world in the name of Italy
• To launch a surprise attack the enemies of Spain by sea
• To find the city of gold in southern Africa

European countries wanted to find a faster route to...?

• Asia
• Africa
• The north pole
• California

What explorer sailed all the way around the world?
(He was credited with it, but in fact he died before his ship made it back.)

• Balboa
• Cabot
• Magellan
• De Soto

What famous Spanish explorer conquered the Aztec civilization?

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernan Cortes

• Bartholomew Dias

• Ferdinand Magellan

The unique Aztec agricultural system based on creation canals right on lake Texcoco to farm was called

• Quippu

• Reformation

• Cartography

• Chinampa

The exchange of goods from the Europe and New World is referred to as the

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Colombian Exchange

• Chinampas

• Quippu

Francisco Pizarro conquered what civilization in Mesoamerica

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca

• Olmec