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Europeans looked for silk, spices, and luxury goods from what other continent?
The Astrolabe and the Compass were two pieces of technology that helped early sailors navigate the open seas. The compass allows you to tell what direction you are going. What does the astrolabe do?
Allows you to find latitude.
Name the 5 countries that were responsible for early exploration around the world.
France, Portugal, Spain, England, and the Netherlands.
Which country was the first country to sail around the southern tip of Africa? You can get x5 the points if you name the sailor who did this!
Portugal, Henry the Navigator!
What was Christopher Columbus' idea that he thought would get him to Asia faster than sailing around Africa?
He thought that sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean would reach Asia quicker.
What religion did Europeans want to convert Native Americans to?
Christianity.
New France (Booooooring)
What is it called when an entreprenuer creates a business and finds investors to invest money into their business?
A Joint-Stock Company
What is a planned attack called?
An ambush.
What were large European farms in North America called?
Plantations
Rice, Tobacco, Sugarcane, Corn, Cotton, Wheat.
What did Europeans bring over that killed more people that weapons? x 2 points if you can name 2 of these things!
Diseases like smallpox, measles, and influenza.
Spanish soldiers were called what?
Conquistadors!
England
Between the French, Spanish, English, Dutch, and Portuguese, who had the fastest ships?
The Dutch!
Circumnavigate.
What is the theory that states the more money a country has, the more power it has? You get 30 seconds to look in your textbook!
Mercantilism
They rode on horseback, they had thundersticks, cannons, steel swords, and vicious dogs.
What was New York City called before it was named New York City?
New Amsterdam (the Dutch were so not sigma).
Who was the Aztec emperor that planned to capture Hernan Cortes? Hint: He was super nice and wrote a letter to you guys ;)
Montezuma!
This city was the Aztec capital that was destoryed by the Spanish.
Tenochtitlan
This 19 year old Spanish Explorer was thought to be the Aztec God Quetzalcoatl.
Hernan Cortes
x 2 points for a correct answer! The exchange of goods, ideas, people, food, and animals between Europe, the Americas, and Africa was called what? Who was it named after? Must have both answers for all points!
The Columbian Exchange, which was named after Christopher Columbus.
Rather than finding gold and silver, how did the French create wealth in North America?
By creating a system of trading furs used for clothing.
x2 points for a correct answer! What was the Treaty that was created between the Portuguese and the Spanish?
The Treaty of Tordesillas.