Why Did Europeans Explore?
100: What are two reasons Europeans explored the world in the late 1400s and 1500s?
Answer: Wealth, religion, or power
100: What was the Columbian Exchange?
Answer: The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and other goods between the Old World and New World.
100: What is a push factor?
Answer: A reason that causes people to leave their home.
100: What was one of the major goals of Spanish colonization?
Answer: To gain wealth, expand Spanish control, or spread Christianity.
100: Why might fertile soil attract people to a region?
Answer: Fertile soil makes it easier to grow crops and support farming.
200: What was one pull factor that attracted Europeans to the Americas?
Answer: The opportunity to gain land, wealth, or a better life
200: What animal did the Spanish bring to the Americas that changed transportation, hunting, and warfare?
Answer: Horses
200: What is a pull factor?
Answer: A reason that attracts people to a new place.
200: What was a viceroy?
Answer: An official who governed a colony or territory for the Spanish monarch.
200: How can rivers influence where people settle?
Answer: Rivers provide water, transportation, fertile land, and opportunities for trade.
300: Why did European explorers search for new trade routes?
Answer: To increase trade and gain wealth
300: What crop from the Americas became an important food in Europe?
Answer: Potatoes, could be other answers
300: What is an example of a religious push factor?
Answer: Religious persecution or being punished for practicing a certain religion.
300: What was a viceroyalty?
Answer: A territory governed by a viceroy on behalf of the Spanish monarch.
300: How can physical geography influence the culture of a region?
Answer: Geography can influence people's jobs, food, settlements, transportation, and way of life.
400: A person is being punished because they practice a different religion than the government. Is this a push factor or a pull factor?
Answer: Push factor
400: What was one major negative effect of the Columbian Exchange on Indigenous peoples?
Answer: The spread of diseases caused large numbers of deaths.
400: Why could the opportunity to practice your religion freely be a pull factor?
Answer: People may move to a place where they can practice their religion without persecution.
400: What was a hacienda?
Answer: A large estate or plantation used for farming or ranching.
400: Why were areas where sugar could be grown a pull factor for Spanish colonization?
Answer: Sugar was a valuable cash crop that could create wealth and economic opportunities.
500: Identify 2 push and pull factors of why people would want to migrate from Europe to the colonial Americas
Answer: Examples... Push factors: religious persecution and lack of land. Pull factors: religious freedom/opportunities and access to land. Could be others
500: How could the Columbian Exchange encourage people to migrate to the Americas?
Answer: People learned about new resources, crops, animals, land, and economic opportunities in the Americas.
500: A family leaves Europe because they are being persecuted for their religion. They move to the Americas because they believe they will have more religious freedom. What is the push factor and what is the pull factor?
Answer: Push factor: religious persecution. Pull factor: religious freedom.
500: Why did Spain create viceroyalties in its colonies?
Answer: To help the Spanish Crown control and govern its large territories.
500: How did the geography and natural resources of the Americas make the region attractive to European settlers?
Answer: The Americas had fertile land, valuable natural resources, and opportunities for farming and trade, which attracted European settlers.