The Lure of Spices

What marked the start of the Age of Exploration?

• Columbus's explorations

• Someone found gold

• Thomas Jefferson becoming president

• spices are scarce

What were explorers excited to find?

• spices

• land

• water

• America

Why were spices so valuable to explorers?

• their food tasted better

• the became famous

• they found America

• they were hard to find

Choose the sentence that best states the main idea of the text

• Explorers were excited to find spices during the Age of Exploration because they were so rare.

• Explorers were excited to find gold during the Age of Exploration because it was so rare.

• Explorers were excited to find land during the age of exploration because it was so rare.

• Explorers were excited to find the Atlantic Ocean during the Age of Exploration because it was so rare.

What does the word "scarce" mean as it is used in paragraph 4?

• old

• heavy

• expensive

• rare

Early ​ (a)   were hoping to find gold.

• explorers
• Americans
• spices
• gold

When something is ​ ​ (a)   it is very hard to find, or rare.

• scarce
• cheap
• new
• gold

Spices were very ​ (a)   five hundred years ago because they were rare.

• valuable
• cheap
• easy
• Europe