Ch 2 Age of Exploration

_______ improved in the 1400's which allowed for more exploring.

• trains

• cars

• shipbuillding

• wars

Conquistadors treated the American Indians ________.

• as equal

• like kings and queens

• unfairly, or badly

Spain sent explorers to find new land, spices, and gold because it needed money for ______.

• new ships.

• new clothes.

• wars.

• castles.

The Colombian Exchange traded goods, ideas, ____, _____, ____, and ____.

• animals, plants, slaves, and ships

• animals, plants, slaves, and maps

• animals, plants, ships, and maps

• animals, plants, slaves, and diseases

Prince Henry opened his navigation school to ________.

• learn more about the world, gain wealth ($) through trade, and improve how people travel on the sea.

• bring slaves back, learn about the culture of the American Indians, and improve travel on the sea.

• learn more about the world, gain wealth ($), and bring slaves back.

• learn more about the world, gain wealth ($), and improve how people travel on the land.

Conquistadors killed a lot of the American Indians by __________.

• poisoning them and diseases like smallpox

• fighting them and diseases like smallpox

• taking their food and diseases like smallpox

• taking their food and fighting them.

An explorers tool used in the 1400s to measure distance.

• Astrolabe

• Compass

• Sails

• Google

Hernan Cortes wanted to get rich after he saw what Columbus found in the New World so he traveled to _________.

• Africa

• Fremont

• Mexico

• Canada

The soldiers and conquerors that were sent from Spain are called _______.

• Aztec

• Mayan

• Slaves

• Conquistadors

When Columbus arrived to the Caribbean Sea at first he thought he was in _____.

• Africa

• the East Indies (modern day Southeast Asia)

• the West Indies (modern day Southwest Asia)

• Fremont