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This explorer's expedition gave Europeans a much better geographical understanding of the Earth’s size.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This is another name for a Spanish Explorer/Soldier
What is a conquistador?
The Age of Exploration started during this time period.
What is between 1300- 1600?
This type of ship made the Age of Exploration possible.
What are caravels?
This explorer realized the land he was exploring was a separate continent and not part of Asia, the continents of North and South America are named after him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This explorer for Spain searched for a shorter route to Asia and accidentally ended in the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Stories about the riches of China and India from these two sources sparked an interest in the East.
What are the Adventures of Marco Polo and the Crusades?
Due to Christopher Colombus's accidental discovery of the Americas, this major exchange of plants, food, and animals occurred between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
While considered a hero in England, he is remembered as a pirate in Spain. He attacked Spanish ships carrying treasures from their colonies in South America and also raided Spanish and Portuguese ports in the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
The Old World is made up of these continents.
What are Africa, Europe, and Asia?
This Muslim empire had significant control of the Silk Road and blocked trade through Constantinople, which caused Europeans to start looking for new trade routes.
Who are they? Mongol Empire, Holy Roman Empire, or the Ottoman Empire?
Which is the Ottoman Empire?
These individuals sponsored (financed) European exploration voyages.
Who are Kings and Queens?
Which are the three main countries that competed to establish colonies in the Americas?
Who is Spain, England, and France?
This conquistador explored, conquered, and colonized the great Inca Empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
The New World consists of these continents.
What are North America and South America?
Europeans wanted more of these but the length of time and distance equaled incredibly expensive __.
What is spices?
It is estimated that 40-55 percent of the indigenous population died from this epidemic within the first 100–150 years following 1492.
What is smallpox?
This captain and navigator sailed through the uncharted, dangerous icy waters of the Arctic. Many of the areas that he explored and sailed through are named after him today. A strait, a bay, and a river.
Who is Henry Hudson?
A water route through North America connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Northwest Passage?
What two MesoAmerican civilizations were crushed at their height (peak) due to the Age of Exploration?
Who are the Aztec and the Inca?