Exploration Basics
This historical period involved European countries traveling overseas in search of land, goods, and trading partners.
Age of Exploration
This explorer sailed west in 1492 hoping to reach Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Sailors used this magnetic instrument to help determine direction.
Compass
Pepper, ginger, and nutmeg belong to this valuable group of Asian trade goods.
Spices
This term refers to the original or first peoples of a place.
Indigenous
The lesson places the Age of Exploration between these centuries.
What are the 1400s and the 1600s?
This country began exploring the Atlantic coast of Africa in the early 1400s.
Portugal
This Portuguese ship was faster and easier to maneuver than older ship designs.
Caravel
Name two reasons Europeans valued spices.
What are any two of flavoring food, use in medicines, and displaying wealth or elite status?
This process involves settling a place away from one’s homeland and often establishing control over the people already living there.
colonization
Europeans used this name for the Western Hemisphere, even though people already lived there.
What is the “New World”?
This Portuguese prince supported voyages seeking new trade routes to Asia.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
Sailors used this instrument to help determine their latitude at sea.
Astrolave
This economic system involved government-controlled trade and competition for wealth. This economic system involved government-controlled trade and competition for wealth.
mercantilism
This term describes different parts of the world becoming more connected through people, ideas, and goods.
globalization
Name three of the five major European countries involved in exploration.
What are any three of Portugal, Spain, France, England, and the Netherlands?
England sponsored this explorer’s 1497 voyage in search of a northwestern passage to Asia.
Who is John Cabot?
Improvements in navigation helped explorers make more accurate versions of these drawings of Earth’s surface.
Maps
Under mercantilism, countries wanted to sell more goods abroad than they bought. Name the two trade terms that complete this goal: more ___ than ___.
What are exports than imports?
Name two harmful effects European contact had on Indigenous peoples, according to the lesson.
What are any two of loss of life, disruption of traditions, and loss of land?
Explain why calling the Americas the “New World” reflects a European perspective.
What is that the Americas were new to those Europeans, but Indigenous peoples already lived there?
This treaty divided overseas exploration claims between Spain and Portugal, leaving other countries out.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Explain how better ships and navigational tools worked together to support exploration.
What is that improved ships made travel easier, while navigational tools helped sailors determine their position and direction?
Explain how a desire for raw materials encouraged European colonization.
What is that countries established colonies to obtain materials needed to manufacture goods and increase wealth?
A poor harvest in the Americas affects people and businesses in Europe. Explain how this demonstrates globalization.
What is that trade connected the regions, so changes in one region affected the economy of another?