European Exploration

Which of the following was a reason to explore North America?

• Looking for the perfect place to grow bananas

• Going on a vacation

• To get to Antarctica

• Spread the Christian religion

What was a reason the French explored North America?

• To find the city of gold

• Fur trade

• Enslave the Indians

• To take the Native Americans land

What was an effect of Columbus arriving to America?

• People discovered the world was round.

• Other Europeans began coming to the Americas

• People wanted to learn Native American languages

• The price of spices went up

The Spanish men who conquered the Aztecs and Incas were called.

• technology

• conquistador

• settlement

• circumnavigate

What word means small community of people living in a new place?

• technology

• conquistador

• settlement

• circumnavigate

Most slaves brought to the New World were from

• Africa

• Australia

• Europe

• India

The exchange of people, goods, ideas and diseases back and forth from Europe and the Americas.

• Columbian Exchange

• Silk Road

• Spice Trade

• all of the above

What was NOT brought to America by Europeans?

• Horse

• Disease

• Llama

• Pigs

What was responsible for the death of so many Native Americans?

• Large weapons

• Tribes fighting each other

• Hernan Cortes

• Disease

Why did the Europeans not get as sick as the Native Americans.

• they had grown an immunity because they travelled more

• they had vaccination

• they were cleaner

• they had better doctors