WorksheetsExploration & Colonization
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
Time period during the 15th and 16th centuries when Europeans searched for new sources of wealth and for easier trade routes to China and India. Resulted in the discovery of North and South America by the Europeans.
Mercantilism
Age of Exploration
Colonization
Indigenous
The name given by Europeans to the Americas, which were unknown to most Europeans before the voyages of Christopher Columbus:
India
Asia
The New World
The Old World
The act of a country going to a new territory & establish political & economic control over an indigenous pop
Colonization
Missionaries
Persecution
Indigenous
The Economic policy or idea where a nation increases profit by creating and trading with its colonies
Persecution
Missionaries
Capitalism
Mercantilism
A person, or group of people sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country.
The New World
Age of Exploration
Missionaries
Indigenous
The mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs:
Persecution
Colonization
Age of Exploration
Indigenous
The people already living in a particular region or environment before exploration by Europeans:
Mercantilism
Persecution
Colonization
Indigenous
At the beginning of the Age of Exploration, Europeans did not know what existed? (Pick 2)
Asia
North America
South America
Africa
The "Big 3" players in Europe during the Age of Exploration were which of the following: (Pick 3)
England
France
Portugal
Spain
True or False: The main motives or reasons that Europeans began to explore and colonize new lands were economic and religious reasons.
True
False
