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    Cross-Curricular Reading Comprehension Worksheets: E-13 of 36

    Colonization: for Gold,


    God and Glory
    Name: ______________________________________
    Answer the following questions based on
    Cross-Curricular Focus: History/Social Sciences
    the reading passage. Don’t forget to go back
    to the passage whenever necessary to find
    Historically, most explorations began as searches for new trade routes.
    However, the discovery of the Americas changed all that. It created new or confirm your answers.
    desires in the hearts of kings, emperors and explorers. Land was hard to get
    in Europe as populations grew. Every bit of it had already been claimed. 1) Do you think it was moral for European
    The prospect of vast open lands in the Americas excited the sailors to nations to claim lands in the Americas that were
    action. The lands were also reportedly full of rich resources. The bountiful already inhabited by natives? Why or why not?
    land also encouraged rulers to put up the money for sailing expenses in the
    hopes of receiving far more wealth in return. _____________________________________
    Religion was another reason for exploration and colonization. When
    _____________________________________
    Protestants rebelled against the Catholic Church, calling for its reform, the
    Catholic Church launched the Counter-Reformation. This was a time when 2) Why did cartographers add artistic pictures,
    Catholic nations did everything they could to convert new believers to like angels, to their maps? ________________
    Catholicism. Establishing a new colony was an opportunity for the church to
    convert the natives. _____________________________________
    Each time another explorer went to seek his fortunes, to convert natives 3) Gold, God, and glory were three reasons for
    to his religion or to make a name for himself as a brave adventurer, the face exploration. Which of these might motivate you
    of the world changed again. Cartographers, the people who make maps, to go exploring? Why? ___________________
    struggled to keep up with the new discoveries. In their hurry to publish
    “newer” and “better” maps, unknown areas were often filled in with things the _____________________________________
    cartographer imagined. Sometimes the cartograher decorated it with angels,
    4) Considering that so many died, was
    spirits or demons to represent the unknown.
    Magellan’s voyage a success? Why or why not?
    The world became a smaller place with each exploration. Finally, in 1519,
    Ferdinand Magellan began his historic voyage. He became the first explorer _____________________________________
    to realize the original dream of sailing west to Asia. In the name of Spain,
    Magellan’s crew did something else remarkable in the process, as well. They _____________________________________
    were the first people ever to circumnavigate the globe. Circumnavigation 5) What does circumnavigate mean?
    means to sail completely around the entire world. Sadly, Magellan did not live
    to see the three-year journey completed. He died during battle with natives in _____________________________________
    Asia in 1521. Only one of his five ships and 18 of his 250 men returned home
    _____________________________________
    in 1522.

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