Age of Exploration

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

• Grace
• Glory
• Greed
• Glaciers

Europeans wanted to find which of the following to expand trade with the East 

• precious metals
• water
• fur
• lumber

By the 1400s, Spain, Portugal, England and France had all found a water route to Asia.

• True

• False

During the 1500s, Spanish conquistadors explored as far north as what is present-day California.

• True

• False

Germs that caused disease helped Hernan Cortes defeat the Aztec.

• True

• False

Without enslaved Africans, Brazil most likely would not have become one of Portugal's most profitable overseas territories.

• True

• False

During the 1600s, the English government was interested in setting up fur trading posts in North America.

• True

• False

Circumnavigate is

• to circle the most important part of a text

• an invention during the 1500s to help explorers find their way

• to go completely around something, such as the world

• a device to find latitude and longitude

The Inca was a group of Native Americans who rules the empire of Peru.

• True

• False

Jesuts were Catholic missionaries who taught Chrisitanity to the Spanards.

• True

• False