Motivations
This motive brought fame and pride to explorers and their countries.
What is glory?
This continent was the intended destination of anyone searching for the Northwest Passage.
What is Asia?
This impact killed more Native peoples than warfare.
What is disease?
This harmful element moved from Europe to the Americas during the Columbian Exchange.
What are diseases?
These colonies grew out of England’s permanent settlements on the East Coast.
What are the 13 Colonies?
This European country best represented “Gold,” based on their conquests in the Americas.
Explorers believed the Northwest Passage connected the Atlantic Ocean to this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
These alliances allowed France to build trade relationships instead of conquering land
What are fur-trading alliances?
This type of exchange—not just food or animals—spread between Europe and the Americas and permanently changed languages, beliefs, and traditions.
What is cultural/human?
This European country established New Amsterdam, which later became New York City.
What is the Netherlands (the Dutch)?
This motive allowed countries to increase their religious influence around the world.
What is God?
This major mistake about the size of North America caused explorers to think the Northwest Passage existed.
What is mistaking its size?
The Spanish did this to Natives - forcing them to work under harsh and deadly conditions.
What is enslave?
This animal transformed hunting, travel, and warfare for many Native nations.
What is horses?
This reason explains why kings and queens spent huge amounts of money sponsoring explorers.
What is gaining land, wealth, and power?
These two countries focused mainly on trade/business instead of conquering land.
What are Portugal and the Netherlands?
Even though they never found the Northwest Passage, explorers still accomplished this while searching.
What is mapping and claiming new lands?
This group lost the most land as a result of European colonization.
What is Natives?
This system began partly because the Native population collapsed due to disease.
What is slavery?
This staple crop from the Americas became a foundation of diets in Africa and Europe, showing how global food systems changed after exploration.
What is corn?
This country’s strategy created the longest-lasting influence on North America through permanent colonies.
What is England?
These northern countries wanted the Northwest Passage because Spain and Portugal controlled southern routes.
What is England, France, and Netherlands?
This type of impact—physical, cultural, or economic—was the most devastating for Native peoples.
What is physical?
These traveling items—plants, animals, and diseases—permanently changed life on both sides of the Atlantic.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This country had the MOST cooperative relationship with Native peoples because they depended on alliances.
What is France?