Explorers Routes
This explorer traveled along the Silk Road and wrote many of his adventures down in book
Marco Polo
The Columbian Exchange is named after what Spanish Explorer who discovered America
Christopher Columbus
The VOC (Dutch East India Company) created a monopoly on what spice in the East Indies
Nutmeg
This French Explorer found Canada for the French
Jacques Cartier
This animal brought to the New World helped indigenous communities hunt and carry supplies back and forth.
Horses
What disease did Sailors get for not getting enough Vitamins?
Scurvy
This Portuguese Explorer traveled around Africa to India, setting up a pepper trade
Vasco Da Gama
This disease, brought over by Europeans, wiped out the native population
Small pox
These new ships revolutionized sea travel across the world
Caravel and Carrack
This English Explorer is known for circumnavigating the world and stealing from Spanish Ships
Sir Francis Drake
This item, brought from the new world to the old world, became an extremely valuable cash crop found in the Americas.
(HINT: This crop started in the New World)
Tobacco
What territory did England and France have conflict over during the Age of Exploration?
Canada
This Moroccan born explorer traveled along the known Muslim world and became the most famous Muslim Explorer of all time
Ibn Battuta
Bananas, Barley Cabbages Pears Chickens Coffee Honey Bees Cattle (Cows) Pepper Okra Cinnamon Horses Lemons Lettuce Collard Greens Olives Oranges Peaches Oats Pigs Rice Sheep Sugarcane Ginger Goats Wheat Grapes Onions
Which country, NOT one of the big 4, explored the East Indies?
The Netherlands