TCI Lesson 2: European Exploration & Settlement

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Major motivation for European exploration:

• profit
• leisure
• freedom
• education

Back

profit

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How did Marco Polo encourage European exploration?

Back

He wrote a book about his travels in Asia

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Goal of the first European explorers?

Back

to find a water route to Asia

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What was an effect of Christopher Columbus's voyages to America?

Back

a transfer of foods between Europe and the Americas

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How did the Columbian Exchange affect many American Indian groups?

Back

They died from diseases

Front

Which statement is true about slavery in North America?

Back

Enslaved Africans took the place of American Indian workers

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What was a goal of the Spanish conquistadors who came to the Americas?

Back

to conquer a large empire for Spain

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What was the main goal of the Spanish missionaries?

Back

to teach their religion to the American Indians

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Who settled in the Spanish borderlands?

Back

soldiers and missionaries

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What was the relationship between the French and American Indians?

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They were business partners