Motivations for Exploration Pre-Test

What religious goal inspired many European explorers?

• To visit holy sites

• to live in poverty

• to spread their beliefs

• to learn about other faiths

The movement of people, animals, plants, and cultures between the Eastern and Western hemispheres:

• expedition

• Columbian Exchange

• slave trade

• navigation

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

The Age of Exploration began with a search for new trade routes to

• Africa

• America

• Asia

• Europe

What products from Asia did the Europeans want?

• gold, silk and spices

• spices, gems and gunpowder

• tea, slaves and gems

• silk, furs and timber

What were the three reasons for European exploration?

• Glory, Gilt, and God

• Glory, God, and Grandeur

• Greatness, God, and Gilt

• Glory, God, and Gold

Which was not a goal of European explorers?

• Find Northwest Passage

• Find Gold

• Spread Religion

• Help Native Americans

The action of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.

• traverse

• Silk Road

• colonization

• circumnavigate

Select the 3 main European countries that explored the New World (North America).

• France

• England

• Spain

• Germany

• Russia

The competition for natural resources, among European nations, led to ___.

• Many wars and rivalries between European nations competing for land and resources.

• Alliances being created for the sake of gaining wealth.

• Native populations benefiting from the increase in trade.

• The collapse of the Ottoman Empire.