Age of Exploration/Age of Absolutism/French Revolution Review

What were the 3 major motivating factors for Explorers?

• Gold, Silver, Treasure

• God, Glory, Gold

• God, Glory, Gallantry

• Honor, Justice, Reinhardt!

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.

Fast ship that could sail with & against the wind, large cargo area, and shallow hull that could navigate shallow water

• navigation ship
• caravel
• astrolabe
• compass

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

Two things that conquistadors had that the Native Americans did not: horses and _______

• families
• gold
• guns
• land

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

Which three continents were involved in the Triangular Trade?

• South America, Asia, Europe
• Asia, Africa, North America
• North America, Africa, and Eroupe
• North America, Australia, and Asia

The journeys of Vasco de Gama, Bartolomeu Dias, and Christopher Columbus became possible in the late 1400s because of the:

• support of exploration by the English monarch.
• trade connections established by the Americans.
• effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
• advancements in sea travel.