Age of Exploration

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

• Grace
• Glory
• Greed
• Glaciers

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What did Queen Isabella do for Christopher Columbus?

• sponsored his exploration
• married him
• made him royalty

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 is the Columbian Exhange?

• Exchange of ideas between America and Europe

• Exchange of different plants, animals, diseases between the New and Old World.

• Exchange of disease between colonists and Native Americans.

• Exchange of money between the Wergild and Ordeal

The New World Is the ______________(s)

• The Americas

• The world after WWII

• Europe, Asia, Africa.

• The best song in the movie Aladdin.

A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease.

• epidemic
• encomienda
• missionary
• imperialism

How did many Native Americans die during the Exploration?

• They died from war.
• The conquistadors starved them
• Smallpox and other diseases
• Drowning in ships

Which of the following is not a reason why Europeans began to explore the world?

• to convert people to Christianity

• to learn about new lands and people

• to obtain spices from Asia

• to develop new technologies