Explorers
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
What wast the period of time called that officially began with the voyages of De Gama and Columbus 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.
The Ancient ______________ Eratosthenes figured out that the world was a sphere of approximately 25,000 mile in circumference in 240 BC.
What is Greek
A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts. Old name for corporation.
What is joint stack company.
What what are 2 lands the Vikings found?
Iceland, Greenland, New Foundland
Explain two negative effects of the Columbian Exchange.
What is... 1. Use of African slaves 2. Spread of Diseases to the New World.
Name one of the two city states that dominated Mediterranean trade in the 15th century, making vast profits from controlling access to the "Silk Road" goods. (Bonus for both)
What are Venice and Genoa
A business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts. Chartered by a government. Newer name for Joint Stock Company.
Corporation
What disease went from the New World to the Old World
Syphillis
This English Explorer sought the "Northwest Passage" and named a major river and a major bay after himself.
What is Henry Hudson?
Why did Columbus call the people he had encountered Indians?
What is he thought he reached the East Indies (India area)
A company founded by the Dutch in the early 17th century to establish and direct trade throughout Asia. Richer and more powerful than England's company, they drove out the English and Established dominance over the region. It ended up going bankrupt and being bought out by the British
Dutch East India Company
Name one disease that devastated the New World.
Small pox, influenza, malaria,
This British joint stock company came to dominate India, and made money trading cotton cloth, tea, and spices
British East India Company
A deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351
Black Death or bubonic plague
a large estate used for cultivating commercial crops such as rubber, tea, cotton, or coffee
Plantation
Who was the Italian explorer who first proved that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern borders, but were a new continent
What is Amerigo Vespucci
the doctrine, developed in the West after the decline of feudalism, that a nation's economy could be strengthened by governmental protection of home industries, by increased foreign exports, and by accumulating gold and silver
Mercantilism
Why would certain Native American groups (like the Mayans) would 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 exacted tribute and scarifice victims.