Age of Exploration Crash Course in European History

How did explorers seek a faster water route to Asia?

• traveling West of Europe in ships

• traveling to the North Pole

• talking to the rulers of the Silk Road

• sailing south of the tip of South America

What was Francisco Vázquez de Coronado searching for in the Americas?

• The Grand Canyon

• The 7 Cities of Gold

• India

• A water route to Asia

What did René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle do in the New World?

• He founded Hispaniola and started what we know as the Columbian Exchange.

• He searched for the 7 Cities of Gold and found 2.

• He explored the Grand Canyon and the Southwest of the United States.

• He explored the Mississippi River and established a colony in Texas.

What is the Columbian Exchange?

• The exchange of resources, ideas, and diseases between Europe and the Americas.

• The spread of diseases across North and South America.

• The creation of Hispaniola by Christopher Columbus.

• The exchange of goods between Christopher Columbus and the Spanish King.

What was one of the consequences of the Age of Exploration?

• The end of trade with Asia

• Decreased cultural exchanges between Europe and Asia

• The spread of European diseases to the Americas

• The decrease in the world's population

What do we call the period of time, beginning in the late 1400s, in which Europeans sought new routes to Asia and first colonized the Americas

• Medieval Times

• The Age of Gold

• The Age of Exploration

• The Americas

What was the primary reason for European expansion during the Age of Exploration?

• To spread Christianity

• To find new trade routes

• To acquire wealth

• All of the above

The action of traveling in or through an unfamiliar area in order to learn about it.

• exploration

• Marine Silk Road

• colonization

• circumnavigate

What is the Age of Exploration?

• The Age of Exploration was a period in history from the 15th to 17th centuries when European nations explored and colonized new lands around the world.

• The Age of Exploration was a period in history from the 10th to 12th centuries when European nations explored and colonized new lands around the world.

• The Age of Exploration was a period in history from the 18th to 20th centuries when European nations explored and colonized new lands around the world.

• The Age of Exploration was a period in history from the 5th to 7th centuries when European nations explored and colonized new lands around the world.

"New World" was a name given to the Americas by

• spice traders

• shipbuilders

• American Indians

• European Explorers