Vocabulary
Explorers
Reasons for Exploration
Challenges
Misc
100

What is located at 0 degrees latitude?

the equator

100

Who explored for the Dutch and is known for exploring the river named after him?

Henry Hudson

100

What is sometimes described as the three Gs?

God, Gold, Glory

100

Give three challenges that made exploration in the New World risky.

1.  fear of the unknown

2. limited maps

3. poor navigation tools 

4.  not enough supplies for the long voyages

5.  risk of starvation or disease


100

Which European country's three main motivations for exploring North America were mercantilism, power and glory, and to provide new opportunities for the lower class?

England

200

What does a cartographer make?

maps

200
What is Christopher Columbus known for?
He was the first European explorer to arrive in the Americas (Indies)
200

Why did missionaries leave Europe for the New World?

to spread Christianity

200

What challenge prevented explorers from finding a Northwest Passage?  

cold weather and icy waters


200

What four countries in the 1500s and 1600s were powerful nations that were rivals competing over land, wealth, and power to build empires overseas?

Hint:  FEPS

France, England, Portugal, Spain

300

Which word means to travel all the way around Earth?

circumnavigate

300

Which explorer was the first to make land claims for England in what is now Canada?

John Cabot

300

What is a waterway that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans that multiple explorers looked for?

Northwest Passage

300

Why didn't explorers go straight to the location they were looking for?  

limited maps and poor navigational tools
300

What PEGS factor is Europeans wanting to escape persecution?  

Social = Religious

400

What do you call the ruler in a government in which authority over the people is retained (kept) through a ruling family?

monarch

400

Who explored for Spain and is known for discovering the Americas as a new land, not Asia?

Amerigo Vespucci

400

What were Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and Ferdinand looking for in the exploration?

a faster sea route to Asia

400
Why did disease spread so quickly on ships?
Because explorers lived in very close quarters with each other and they didn't have good sanitation (take showers,wash hands) so germs would spread quickly.
400

Which European country's three main motivations for exploring North America were to trade for fur with the Native Americans, spread Christianity, and find the Northwest Passage?  

France

500

What do you call a policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, military force, or other means?

imperialism

500

Who explored for Spain and is known for leading the first expedition circumnavigating the Earth?

Ferdinand Magellen

500

What do you call an old economic system where countries tried to get rich by selling more goods to other countries than they bought, keeping most of the money and resources for themselves?

 

Mercantilism

500
Why didn't explorers have accurate maps?
Because they had never been to all of the parts of the earth, so they didn't know what it really looked like.
500

Which PEGS factor is Europeans wanting to find new natural resources to make goods?

Economic


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