European Exploration in the Americas Practice Test

Exploration involved both state sponsorship and private initiative, as monarchs granted charters while investors and captains pursued profit.

Mixed sponsorship occurred because storms demanded bribes, forcing monarchs and merchants to pay the Atlantic Ocean to allow passage.

Private sponsorship began only after 1607, because earlier capitalism did not exist and money had not been invented.

Only the Aztec emperor financed European voyages, hiring Columbus as a royal admiral to expand Indigenous overseas colonies.

All voyages were funded only by peasants voting in national referendums, with monarchs prohibited from involvement by law.