Exploration Incentives & Motivations

How was Christianity a motivator during the Age of Exploration?

• Missionaries spread Buddhism

• New ideas spread on Silk Road

• Missionaries spread Christianity in New World

• Desert traders spread Islam in New World

Which was an immediate result of the European Age of Exploration?

• Christianity becomes religion of W. Aftrica

• European spreads to W. hemisphere

• Native American population increased

• Isolationism becomes European policy

What valuable trade items encouraged European nations to search for a water route to Asia?

• silk and spices

• gold and silver

• bronze and copper

• iron and weapons

What country started the African slave trade?

• Spain

• Portugal

• England

• France

What country created permanent settlements along the Atlantic coast of N. America?

• France

• Spain

• England

• Portugal

What was the main purpose for European exploration?

• wealth through increased trade

• military power with large populations

• political power with large populations

• influence over native cultures

The reason European countries started exploration was

• trade routes with Americas

• trade routes with Canada

• water trade route to Caribbean

• water trade routes to India & China

What is the new world?

• The Americas

• Africa

• Europe

• Asia

Who was the explorer to go around the world?

• Hernan Cortez

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• John Cabot

What was the reason to find all water route to Asia?

• Muslim control of many land trade routes

• effects of the Protestant Reformation

• decline of the Trans-Saharan trade routes

• decrease in demand for Asian goods