6 SS Age of Exploration

The _____ were wars fought to win control of the Holy Land.

• Plantations

• Colonizations

• Crusades

• Caravans

2. Taking control of foreign land and its resources for profit is called _____.

• crusade

• plantation

• convert

• colonization

Enthusiasm in pursuit of a goal is called _____.

• convert

• martime

• merchant

• zeal

Europeans hoped to _____ the indigenous people to a new religion, Christianity.

• zeal

• convert

• plantation

• merchant

The explorations of Marco Polo and the Crusades opened up the pursuit

of new sea routes which is known as _____ trade.

• maritime

• caravans

• monopoly

• profit

 _____ trade ships brought Europeans valuable goods between the port cities of western Europe and the East.

• Merchant

• Monopoly

• Silk Road

• Zeal

A network of trade routes that connected Europe, Asia, and Africa was known as the _____.

• caravan

• merchant

• colonization

• Silk Road

Large groups of Muslim traders traveled in groups called _____ along the Silk Road.

• plantations

• caravans

• Crusades

• enslaved

The lure of making a large _____ of money pushed explorers to seek

new trade routes to the spice islands.

• profit

• caravan

• plantation

• zeal

The Portuguese's exploration of Africa introduced them to the

buying and selling of human beings known as the _____.

• Silk Road

• convert

• slave trade

• colonization