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Random Age of Exploration Questions
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Name the explorer that sailed into the Bahama Islands in 1492 on three ships while thinking he landed on the shores of the country of India.
What is Christopher Columbus
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What wast the period of time called that officially began in the early 15th century and lasted until the 17th century. This period is thought of as a time when Europeans began exploring the world by sea in search of trading partners, new goods, and new trade routes. In addition, some explorers set sail to simply learn more about the world.
What is The Age of Exploration or known as The Age of Discovery.
100
During the 1400s, how did many Europeans view the world as being?
What is flat
100
List three products that were e​xported ​to the “Old World”.
What is (answers will vary)
100

Economic policy that values exports more than imports.

What is Mercantilism.

200
A Portuguese navigator, he commanded an expedition that was the first to travel across the world (1480-1521)
What is Ferdinand Magellan
200

Was an Italian explorer who first proved that Columbus had not reached India but in fact had reached a "New World".

What is Amerigo Vespucci

200
What were the three goals that explorers tried to accomplish when setting out to explore? This was also known as the "3 G's"
What is .... 1. Glory (Fame and developing strong reputation) 2 Gold (trade routes to Asia and to become wealthy) 3. God (to spread Christianity)
200

List three products that were imported into the "New World".

What is (answers will vary)

200

***Bonus Question*** WORTH TRIPLE THE POINT VALUE!! How did the Chinese and Japanese deal with European merchants and missionaries.

What is China and Japan made it very difficult for European countries to trade with them. Both countries were self-sufficient so they did not NEED to trade with Europeans. 
300
a Portuguese explorer, soldier and prince. Although he rarely participated in explorations, he sent many expeditions from Portugal to the west coast of Africa, and was responsible for Portugal’s influence in the Great Age of Exploration. His school of navigation resulted in a breakthrough for Portuguese navigation.
What is Prince Henry (Henry the Navigator)
300

French man who sailed through the St. Lawrence River in Canada.

What is Jacques Cartier

300
Why did Columbus call the people he had encountered Indians?
What is he thought he reached the East Indies (India area)
300

Who was selling African slaves to the Europeans?

What is.. African kings and local rulers

300

What is the only colony in the New World that belonged to Portugal?

What is Brazil.

400
Who was the first person to sail directly from Europe to India? His success in doing so proved to be one of the more instrumental moments in the history of navigation. He subsequently made two other voyages to India, and was appointed as Portuguese viceroy in India in 1524.
What is Vasco da Gama
400

a Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.

What is Hernan Cortes

400

What was being sent along Triangular Trade routes? (From Europe to Africa, Africa to Americas, Americas to Europe)

What is 1. Tobacco, sugar, grown products to Europe 2. Tea, manufactured goods, etc. made from raw materials from the New World. These goods were sent to the colonies of Africa and eventually the colonies of the "new world". 3. Slaves from Africa were sent to the "new world".

400

What is the voyage across the Atlantic on slave ships sometimes called?

What is.. the Middle Passage

400

How were enslaved Africans treated on the Middle Passage?

What is they were crammed into the lower decks of ships, not allowed to use the restroom so many died of disease, forced to dance, thrown overboard, etc. 

500

The first British man to circumnavigate the world.

What is Francis Drake

500
Explain two negative effects of the Columbian Exchange.
What is... 1. Use of African slaves 2. Spread of Diseases to the New World.
500
Spanish explorer and conquistador, he helped Vasco Núñez de Balboa discover the Pacific Ocean, and after conquering Peru and the Incas, founded its capital city, Lima.
What is Francisco Pizarro
500
Explain two positive effects of the Columbian Exchange on the entire world.
What is.....New ideas and products being exchanged between various parts of the world, etc.
500

Why would certain Native American groups in Mexico help Hernan Cortes conquer the Aztecs?

What is....most other Native American tribes disliked the Aztecs because the Aztecs conquered lands and sacrificed prisoners of war from these conquered lands. 

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