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100
Slavery started during this time period in African history.
What is the time of the pharaohs (ancient Egypt)?
100
Who did much of the slave capturing for the Europeans?
Who are Africans?
100
Prince Henry the Navigator was from this country.
What is Portugal?
100
.Led the 1st expedition to sail around the world
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
100
These four countries led Europe in the Age of Exploration.
What are Portugal, Spain, France, and England?
200
These are North American products that were in high demand in Europe.
What are corn, tomatoes, potatoes, and tobacco (crops)?
200
These are some of the items that were sent to Africa in exchange for slaves.
What are rum, cloth, guns/ammunition, and trinkets
200
Hernando (Hernan) Cortez was from this country.
What is Spain?
200
He conquered the Incan empire in present day Peru.
Who is Francisco Pizaro?
200
This was the route used to import items from Asia before water routes were discovered.
What is the Silk Road?
300
Why did enslavement not work with Native Americans?
What are running away (they knew the land), refusing to work, suicide, and disease?
300
This is the term used to describe the journey from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
300
Sir Francis Drake was from this country.
What is England?
300
He was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Vasco Balboa?
300
The fall of this city, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, closed the Silk Road and forced Europeans to seek a water route to Asia.
What is Constantinople?
400
These are examples of the types of diseases that were spread by European contact.
What are smallpox, pneumonia, influenza (flu), plague?
400
These are some of the items that were sent from America to Europe.
What are tobacco, cotton, sugar, and molasses
400
Jacques Cartier was from this country.
What is France?
400
He searched for the legendary Fountain of Youth in Florida, but was killed by a poison arrow.
Who is Ponce de Leon?
400
This invention allowed sailors to use the stars to navigate.
What is the astrolabe?
500
This country was the first European country to engage in the slave trade.
What is Portugal?
500
This term refers to the system of trade that developed between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is Triangular Trade?
500
North America and South America are named after this explorer/cartographer.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
500
Refusing to believe that he had found a "New World", he died believing that he had nearly reached Japan or China.
Who is Columbus?
500
This type of light weight sail allowed explorers to sail against the wind.
What are lateen sails?
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