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100

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

100

What was the period of time 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 round

100

Who is the Columbian Exchange named after?

Christopher Columbus

100

Which Explorer established the colony of Quebec?

Cartier

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 Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern borders
What is Amerigo Vespucci
200

What were the three reasons for European Exploration?

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

Why were slaves brought over to the New World?

Disease killed off the native populations and the Europeans could not survive the harsh working conditions

200

Which Explorer has more bodies of water named after him then anyone else in the world?

Henry Hudson

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
The period of time known for discovery and exploration of new continents, the decline of the feudalism, the invention of the mariner's compass, and the invention or application of such potentially powerful innovations as paper and the printing press.
What is the Renaissance
300
Why did Columbus call the people he had encountered Indians?
What is he thought he reached the East Indies (India area)
300

List 3 items that were shipped from Europe to America

What is....(remaining items not mentioned)

300
What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?
What is divided the land in the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal
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 Hernando Cortes
400
Explain the Triangular Trade, one of the effects of the Columbian Exchange.
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

List 3 items that came from America and were shipped to Europe

What is...(remaining items not mentioned in above answer)

400

How would enslaved people (Native Americans and Africans) keep their traditions alive during slavery?

Songs, stories, celebrations

500

The first European to sail around the tip of Africa, he opened the doors for seafaring trade with India.

What is Bartolomeu Dias

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 (like the Mayans) help Hernando Cortes?

What is....most other Native American tribes disliked the Aztecs that Cortes was trying to conquer as the Aztecs ruled the land of what is today Mexico and would have constant conflicts with the Mayans.

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