TX Studies Weekly 8 Our State

__________, a Viking, landed in Newfoundland, off the coast of what is now Canada, in the year 1000.

• Marco Polo

• Lief Eriksson

• Bartolomeu Dias

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The motives of exploration are often referred to as the three Gs. What does this stand for?

• gold, God, glory

• goals, greed, God

• goals, glory, greed

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Explorers searched for gold and other precious metals that they could send back to __________.

• South America

• Africa

• Europe

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__________’s goal was to find a faster trade route between Europe and Asia.

• Christopher Columbus

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Jacques Cartier

• Henry Hudson

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__________ reached North America, landing on the island we know today as Manhattan, New York.

• Christopher Columbus

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Jacques Cartier

• Henry Hudson

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__________ explored present-day Canada and claimed its land for France.

• Christopher Columbus

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Jacques Cartier

• Henry Hudson

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In exchange for __________, Europeans brought wheat, rye, barley, and oats to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.

• corn and potatoes

• potatoes and lettuce

• corn and peanuts

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The __________ was the sharing of plants, animals, ideas, and technology between Europe and the Americas.

• American Exchange

• Columbian Exchange

• Trade Exchange

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Slave traders brought people from __________, making the dangerous journey across the Atlantic Ocean.

• Spain

• Europe

• West Africa

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Europeans brought many __________ to the Americas, resulting in the deaths of many American Indians.

• crops

• diseases

• tools

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