Age of Exploration

What was the Columbian exchange?

• The transfer of plants animals and diseases between old world and new world

• The transfer of people between the old world and the new world

• When Columbus came to the Caribbean and traded with the natives

• None of these

The land route connecting Europe to Asia and India for the purpose of trade.

• exploration

• traverse

• Silk Road

• Marine Silk Road

Where did Spanish explorers mostly sail?

• Asia

• Americas

• England

• India

His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world (go around the world) by sailing.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernan Cortes

• Marco Polo

The European explorers referred to the lands they colonized as the ___ _____?

• Old World

• New Spain

• New World

• Native Land

Spain came to America with what purpose?

• to trade with Natives
• to spread religion gain land and wealth

• to exchange goods
• to spread diseases

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

How did diseases impact the New World?

• They didn't
• They wiped out 90% of the Europeans

• They wiped out 90% of the indigenous people

• They helped the natives beat the Spanish

This explorer led 7 voyages, had 200 ships, and was searching for new trade routes for China

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Zheng He

• Genghis Khan

Which best describes the Age of Exploration?

• a time when people were exploring

• a time period when Europeans competed to explore the world

• the rebirth; a time period of intellectual learning

• a time period when people are entering the new world from the old world