Age of Exploration Causes
First country to start the exploration
What is Portugal?
The Spanish name given to a Spanish explorer/soldiers who searched for wealth in the Americas
Who are 'conquistadors'?
I am an explorer for Spain who searched for a shorter route to Asia and accidentally ended up in the Americas calling the Natives "Indians"
Who is 'Christopher Columbus'?
The Age of exploration started on this continent
Europe
The magnetic compass always points ...
What is 'North'?
This was a navigational tool used by sailors to determine their latitude at sea by measuring the angle between the horizon and the North Star or the sun.
What is an Astrolabe?
How did Indigenous peoples die without a single shot being fired?
Disease
This explorer conquered the Aztecs.
Cortes
Where did Columbus think he landed?
India
What ocean did explorers have to cross to get to the "New World"
Atlantic Ocean
Major cause of Age of Exploration
What is to find a trade Route to Asia/India?
This was named after Spanish explorer, and is the exchange plants, animals, culture, people, technology, DISEASES, and ideas between the new world, and the Old World .
What is the Colombian exchange?
I am a Venetian and I am well known for my journals about my journey to China. (Hint: I'm also the name of a game of tag)
Marco Polo
This country was able to set up the most colonies over in the New World
What is 'Spain'?
Where was Ferdinand Magellan killed by natives?
the Philippines
This group was technically the first to arrive in North America, even before Columbus
The Vikings.
A series of trade routes connecting Europe and Asia
Silk Road
My crew was the first to sail around the world
Ferdinand Magellan
What was is name of the Incan City high in the Andes mountains that was abandoned and forgotten for hundreds of years?
Maccu Piccu
What new type of ship did the explorers use to travel far distances?
Caravel
The three motivations reasons for Europeans to explore during the Age of Exploration
To find gold, explore (find new trade routes) and spread Christianity. (Gold, God, Glory)
Sailing around the world...
What is 'circumnavigate'?
He led the conquest of the Inca Empire in present-day Peru
What is Francisco Pizarro?
Christopher Columbus first landed here
Where is Hispaniola( present day Haiti and Dominica Republic?
Instrument used by sailors to measure position of stars and figure out their latitude.
What is the astrolabe/sextant
The trade routes between Africa, Europe and the Americas during the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Triangular Trade
The treaty of Tordesillas split the Eastern and Western hemisphere between THESE TWO countries.
What is Spain and Portugal?
A Portuguese explorer, was the first European to sail directly from Europe to India, opening a sea route to the lucrative spice trade in Asia.
Who is Vasco De Gama?
First Place that the Portuguese landed in Africa while trying to find a water route to India
Where is Morocco?
The dominant economic theory of the time in which countries power was based on wealth.
Mercantilism
Who were the Spanish King and Queen that funded a voyage to the New World ?
What is King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
Name given to a person who actually draws or produces maps
Who is a 'cartographer'?
Aztecs location
Mexico
The name of colonies given when the English first Landed in the New World?
Where is Thirteen Colonies?
What is smallpox?