Age of Exploration

In which direction did the Spanish sail?

• East
• North
• West
• South

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

• Asia
• Africa
• The north pole
• California

Which is not part of the Old World?

• Africa
• Asia
• Europe
• South America

Which is not one of the three G's

• God
• Guns
• Gold
• Glory

Which European country did NOT claim territory in North America?

• Spain

• Italy

• England

• France

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 trading of ideas, culture, people, goods, and diseases between Europe and the New world came to be known as...

• Triangular Trade.
• the Middle Passage.
• the Columbian Exchange.
• Mercantilism.

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Europeans began exploring the world because they wanted to:

• gain riches from Asia like silk and spices
• prove that the world was flat
• discover a New World
• All of these are true

What were some resources that came FROM the Old World TO the New World?

• corn, potatoes, chocolate, turkeys
• coffee, horses, cows, pigs
• alpacas, avocados, tomatoes, strawberries
• books, money, computers, cars

What were some resources that came FROM the New World TO the Old World?

• coffee, horses, cows, pigs
• Native American religion, dances, clothes, housing
• corn, potatoes, chocolate, turkeys
• guns, the wheel, rice, spices