Age of Exploration

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Brain Dump! Write one or two things that you know about the Exploration Era...

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Match the following reasons for exploration with their meanings:

• Discovering new sources of wealth

• Spreading religion to the Natives (Christianity)

• Conquering new territories to expand empires

Gold

God

Glory

• Gold

• God

• Glory

Draw

Draw on the map where explorers had to go to get to Asia. Then draw where you think Columbus went to find a quicker route to Asia.

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Identify the location that Columbus discovered when trying to find a quicker trade route to Asia:

Categorize

Options (9)

Settled in the Southwest into Latin and South America

Founded to discover gold and convert Natives

St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest settlement

Settled along the Mississippi River and Great Lakes

Founded to trade furs with Natives

New Orleans, Louisiana is the most important city

Settled along the Atlantic Ocean

Founded for economic and religious reasons

First colonies were Jamestown & Plymouth

Organize these characteristics of the New World into the right categories

New Spain

New France

English Colonies

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Which of the following locations would have seen raw materials such as lumber, tobacco, indigo, and cotton being traded from the colonies to Europe?

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Which of the following locations would have seen finished goods such as furniture, weapons, and tools being traded from Europe to Africa?

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Which of the following locations would have seen enslaved people captured and sent from Africa to the colonies along the "middle passage"?