Age of ExplorationTest

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A ______factor is something that makes people want to leave their current location. Examples - include poverty, lack of job opportunities, war, oppression, political instability, and natural disasters.

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Push Factors

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This invention used the sun, moon, planets, and stars to help explorers navigate on the open ocean.

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Astrolabe

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This Chinese invention used the Earth's magnetic poles to help explores find their cardinal directions.

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Compass

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What was Christopher Columbus' purpose for exploration before discovering the New World? Options: To find a faster and safer trading route to Asia, To circumnavigate the world in the name of Italy, To launch a surprise attack the enemies of Spain by sea, To find the city of gold in southern Africa

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To find a faster and safer trading route to Asia

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The exchange of goods, people, and diseases between Europe, Africa, and the Americas is the ________________?

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Columbian Exchange

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What was the primary reason that European explorers had for wanting to explore new land?

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They were searching for an all-water route to Asia to acquire silks and spices.

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As a result of the Colombian Exchange and contact with Europeans, millions of Native Americans died as a result of what? New Foods, Religious persecution from the Spanish Inquisition, New diseases for which the Native Americans had no natural immunity, Slavery, and their terrible journey across the ocean

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New diseases for which the Native Americans had no natural immunity

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What were the three reasons for European exploration? (Options: Game, God, Glory; Glory, Fame, and God; God, Glory, and Gold; Gifts, Greatness, Glory)

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God, Glory, and Gold

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The trading of ideas, culture, people, goods, and diseases between Europe and the New world came to be known as...

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the Columbian Exchange.

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What religious goal inspired many European explorers? Options: to visit holy sites, to live in poverty, to spread their beliefs, to learn about other faiths

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to spread their beliefs