Age of Exploration & Gunpowder Empires

Motivations for Exploration: Choose all that apply

• Gold

• God

• Glory

• Curiosity

Economic idea where a country tries to maximize their profit from imports and exports:

• Mercantilism

• Socialism

• Communism

• All the above

How did Mercantilism impact Exploration?

• Motivated countries to gain wealth in the New World

• Convinced countries to stay put

• Made countries not want to start colonies

• All the above

The exchange of goods, ideas, plants and animals between the Old World and the New World

• Mercantilism

• Capitalism

• Columbian Exchange

• Colonialism

Impacts of the Columbian Exchange include:

• Disease spreading to the New World

• New livestock and produce brought to and from the Americas

• Old World and New World become intertwined

• All the above

System of trade between Europe, Africa, and New World:

• Triangular Trade

• Capitalism

• Mercantilism

• Exploration

Worst part of the Triangular Trade, when slaves would be transported to the New World

• Middle Passage

• Bermuda Triangle

• Exploration

• All the above

Conquistador who conquered the Aztecs

• Cortes

• Pizarro

• Columbus

Conquistador who conquered the Inca

• Cortes

• Pizarro

• Columbus

Why are the Ottomans and similar empires known as the "Gunpowder Empires"?

• They used Gunpowder to conquer

• They fought against civilizations who had gunpowder

• They were expanding in an explosive way

• All the above