Age of Exploration Review

Central America

Africa

Middle East

Europe

South America

Asia

Spreading Christianity

Searching for natural resources

Escaping persecution from the government

Finding new trade routes

Luck of the draw

Geographic luck

Geographic Positioning System

Plinko

Advanced weapons technology

Superior intellect

Immunity from diseases they carried

Domesticated animals

Selling more goods than are bought

Buying more goods than are sold

Having colonies

Having large amounts of gold and silver

This evidence demonstrates that a motivation for those who financed exploration was to spread Christianity wherever they pursued new sources of wealth.

“After 800 years of fighting religious wars, the Portuguese and Spanish turned their devotion for the Catholic Church to those they encountered through exploration.  Explorers were sponsored (funded) by the Catholic Kings and Queens of their countries. They viewed voyages to the coast of Africa and eventually to the Indian Ocean and the Americas as opportunities to convert people to their faith.”

The causes of the Age of Exploration were the desire to spread Christianity throughout the world and the need to find new trade routes because of high prices of goods and inaccessibility to Asia after the rise of the Ottoman Empire.

None of the above

This evidence demonstrates that a motivation for those who financed exploration was to spread Christianity wherever they pursued new sources of wealth.

“After 800 years of fighting religious wars, the Portuguese and Spanish turned their devotion for the Catholic Church to those they encountered through exploration.  Explorers were sponsored (funded) by the Catholic Kings and Queens of their countries. They viewed voyages to the coast of Africa and eventually to the Indian Ocean and the Americas as opportunities to convert people to their faith.”

The causes of the Age of Exploration were the desire to spread Christianity throughout the world and the need to find new trade routes because of high prices of goods and inaccessibility to Asia after the rise of the Ottoman Empire.

None of the above

This evidence demonstrates that a motivation for those who financed exploration was to spread Christianity wherever they pursued new sources of wealth.

“After 800 years of fighting religious wars, the Portuguese and Spanish turned their devotion for the Catholic Church to those they encountered through exploration.  Explorers were sponsored (funded) by the Catholic Kings and Queens of their countries. They viewed voyages to the coast of Africa and eventually to the Indian Ocean and the Americas as opportunities to convert people to their faith.”

The causes of the Age of Exploration were the desire to spread Christianity throughout the world and the need to find new trade routes because of high prices of goods and inaccessibility to Asia after the rise of the Ottoman Empire.

None of the above