Age of Exploration, Expansion, and Global Trade

Three motivations for European explorers: Fame, Power and ______.

• Grace

• Glory

• Greed

• Glaciers

What is the name of the time period between the 15th and 17th centuries in which Europeans traveled in search of new trade routes, lands, and goods?

• Age of Treasure
• Age of Adventure
• Age of Exploration
• Age of Navigation

Who wanted to expand beyond the shores of Europe and find direct route to the goods.

• Kings

• Buyers

• Merchants

• Soldiers

Prince Henry is known as

• The Son of Spain

• Crusader of the New World

• Captian Hook

• The Navigator of Portugal

Portuguese sailors returned to Portugal from Africa with captives who could be traded. This marked...

• The Beginning of the European Slave Trade

• The Beginning of Globalization

• The Beginning of the Columbian Exchange

• The Beginning of the Builiding of the Silk Road

In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed

• the Gulf of Mexico

• East

• the Ocean Blue

• to Africa

What Leader of the Aztecs, welcomed the Spaniards because the Aztecs had never seen armor and horses, and they believed that Cortes was Quetzalcoatl, a pale-skinned god.

• Tenochtitlán

• Acamapichtli

• Itzcoatl

• Montezuma

Who conquered the Incan Empire, located in modern-day Peru?

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernan Cortes

• Christopher Columbus

• Randy White

This mixing of plants, animals, viruses, and bacteria is known as

• The Dutch and English Trade

• The Silk Road Exchange

• The Columbian Exchange

• The Great European Trade System known as GETS

The start of what economic system in which people invest in trading and goods for profit.

• Democracy

• Capitalism

• Socialism

• Communism