Age of Exploration Test Review

At the beginning, what was the purpose of Portuguese explorations?

• trade

• colonization

• sailing

• catch animals

Sailors used astrolabes to tell

• direction

• latitude

• speed

• time

What religious goal inspired many European explorers?

• To visit holy sites

• to live in poverty

• to spread their beliefs

• to learn about other faiths

The movement of people, animals, plants, and cultures between the Eastern and Western hemispheres:

• expedition

• Columbian Exchange

• slave trade

• navigation

Spain came to America with what purpose?

• to trade with Natives
• for God, Gold, and Glory
• to exchange goods
• to spread diseases

The French and English explorers were looking for which shortcut through the Americas?

• The Atlantic Thruway

• The Cape of Good Hope

• The Northwest Passage

• The Strait of Magellan

set the boundary established in 1493 to define Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the Americas.

• Treaty of Tordesillas
• Columbian Exchange
• Age of Exploration
• longhouses/plank houses

Conquistador is a spanish word that means.....

• crazy man

• soldier

• conqueror

Why did the conquistadors bring priests with them to the Americas?

• To help the Spaniards hold religious services

• To perform weddings between Spanish soldiers and native women

• To teach the Spanish soldiers about Christianity

• To convert the native peoples to Christianity

Which of these best describes the primary reason for FRENCH exploration?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4