Age of Exploration: GGG. + T- The Conquistadors

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

• Grace
• Glory
• Greed
• Glaciers

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Christianity

• God
• gold
• glory

What device helped Europeans navigate at sea by using a magnetized needle that points to a coordinate direction?

• Steam Engine

• Compass

• Astrolabe

• Rudder

Columbus searched for many years for someone to give him money to sail to the west. Which leaders and country finally gave him money?

• His mom

• King Ferdinand and Queen Elizabeth of Italy

• Leif Erikson

• King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain

What did King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella want Columbus to trade for in Asia?

• gold and spices

• lumber and fish

• cotton and wood

• horses and cattle

What country sponsored Christopher Columbus?

• Spain
• England
• Italy
• Portugal

What was Columbus looking for?

• gold

• silk

• spices

• all of the above

Where did Christopher Columbus believed he had landed in 1492?

• Europe
• Indies
• South Africa

How were the Spanish conquistadors able to conquer the New World?

• They prayed for the Native Americans.
• They became friends and traded goods with the Native Americans.
• They used advanced weapons to take control of the Native Americans.
• They paid them gold to work building colonies for them.

Why did the conquistadors bring priests with them to the Americas?

• To help the Spaniards hold religious services

• To perform weddings between Spanish soldiers and native women

• To teach the Spanish soldiers about Christianity

• To convert the native peoples to Christianity