Exploration & Expansion

What are the THREE main causes for European exploration?

• Gold

• Glory

• God

• Water

Why did Europeans look for a new route to Asia?

• They wanted a direct route for trade

• They wanted to give more power to the Italian and Arab merchants

• There wasn't a route for trade with Asia yet

• They didn't look for a new route

Those who make maps

To sail around the globe

What two European nations emerged as super powers in exploration?

• Spain

• Portugal

• United States

• Britain

Empire located in modern day Mexico conquered by Cortes

• Aztec Empire

• Inca Empire

• Maya Empire

Which empire was conquered by Europeans by taking advantage of the Civil War in their empire

• Aztec Empire

• Inca Empire

• Maya Empire

Exchange of goods between the "New" & "Old" worlds

• International Exchange

• Sea Trade Road

• Columbian Exchange

• Columbian Road

Set a dividing line on the non-European world creating west & east territories

• Treaty of Augsburg

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Columbian Exchange

• Peace of Westphalia

Match the following

• Cortes

• Traveled to the Cape of Good Hope

• Dias

• Sailed to modern day Mexico

• Columbus

• First to travel around Africa to India

• Vasco da Gama

• First to Circumnavigate the globe

• Magellan

• First European to discover the Americas