Pre-Explore Test Knowledge

Spanish word for explorer.

• Nomad

• Conquistador

• Matador

• Vaquero

___________ was the first European to reach America in 1492, he had 3 ships on his voyage: the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Christopher Columbus
• John Cabot
• Amerigo Vespucci

Europeans were trying to find a water route to __________________, they thought that this would make their country rich with its silk, spices, and treasures. 

• Asia
• America
• Antartica
• Australia

The most common reasons to explore the New World were

• Food, Fun, and Fame

• Gold, God, and Glory

• Religion, Routes, Rulers

• Gold, Guns, and Goods

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

• traverse

• Silk Road

• colonization

• circumnavigate

This explorer defeated the Aztec Empire and claimed all of Mexico in the name of Spain.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernan Cortes

• Marco Polo

The main motivations for Spanish exploration in the New World were:

• To discover riches and to conquer new people groups and enslave them.

• To discover adventure, to cure disease, and to find personal glory.

• To discover Gold, to spread the word of God, and personal Glory.

• To spread the word of God, to escape oppression of their government, and to own their own business.

What were the goals of the Spanish missions?

• convert Native Americans to Christianity
• teach Native Americans to adopt the Spanish way of life
• Strengthen Spain's hold on Texas land
• all of the above

a religious community where Native Americans were converted to Christianity (Catholicism)

• missions

• forts

• presidios

• cities

What was the main reason that the French traveled to the New World?

• To profit from the fur trade

• To conquer land

• To escape religious persecution

• To convert natives to christianity