Age of Discovery

Which slogan can summarize the motivation for European countries to colonize the "New World?"

• Religion, Trade, and Wealth

• Gold, God, Glory

• War

• Europe population was too large

Which Spanish Queen and King sponsored Christopher Columbus's voyage?

• Ferdinand and Isabella

• Henry and Mary

• Elizabeth and Drake

• Audrina and Bradley

Which individual was the first European to explore the Mississippi River?

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Amerigo Vespucci 

• Hernando de Soto

• Hernando Cortes

Which individual was the first European to purpose the idea that the "New World" was a new continent?

• Ferdinand Magellan

• John Cabot

• Hernando Cortes

• Amerigo Vespucci

Which individual was the first to circumnavigate the world

• Ferdinand Magellan

• John Cabot

• John Winthrop

• Hernando Cortes

Which Portuguese explorer traveled this route to India by sailing around the Cape of Good

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Jacques Cartier

• Henry Hudson

• Vasco da Gama

Which French explorer traveled this route trying to find a Northwest Passage becoming the first European in inland North America.

• Bartolomeu Dias

• John Cabot

• Henry Hudson

• Jacques Cartier

This explorer's expedition helped England claim a large piece of Northern Canada.

• John Cabot

• John Winthrop

• Henry Hudson

• John Smith

Which country colonized the New World to supply Europe with its seemingly never-ending demand for furs.

• England

• France

• Spain

• Portugal

This map is the territory of which empire in the 16th century?

• Spain

• Portugal

• England

• France