CH 1 NOTES: European Exploration of North America

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What were the motivations for European exploration of North America?
Options: God, Gold, Glory, Government, Grain, Growth, Goods, Grapes, Games

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God, Gold, Glory

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These four explorers searched for the Northwest Passage. Name the explorers: ______, ______, ______, ______

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Cabot, Hudson, Cartier, Champlain

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Why didn’t early explorers find the Northwest Passage?

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icy waters and cold weather

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What was the “original” European motivation that started the Age of Exploration?

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To find a water route to Asia

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What were some technological achievements to exploring the New World? Options: airplane, telephone, light bulb; printing press, steam engine, telegraph; caravel, compass, and astrolabe; microscope, vaccine, X-ray

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caravel, compass, and astrolabe

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What were England’s motivations for exploring North America? Options: mercantilism, opportunity, power and Glory, religion, spices, silk trade, gold, silver, fur trade, colonization, agriculture, navigation

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mercantilism, opportunity, power and Glory

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True or False: France, England, Spain, and Portugal were partners in exploration.

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False

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Amerigo Vespucci is known for ... (pg. 14)

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being the 1st European explorer to realize that he was exploring new continents that Europeans had not known existed

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Magellan is known for ... (pg. 16)

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Being the 1st to Circumnavigate the earth

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List 5 challenges to exploring the New World.

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poor tools for navigation, limited maps of the new world, fear of the unknown, inadequate supplies for long voyages, risk of disease and starvation