Explorers
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Colonization
100
This explorer sailed WEST to try and find a sea route to India.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
This continent's trade was based on the slave trade.
What is Africa?
100
The mixture of chemicals explodes when lit.
What is gunpowder?
100
This is the theory of mercantilism.
What is a country's power depends on its wealth.
100
A land and its people who are controlled by a more powerful nation is known as this.
What is a colony?
200
This European country was the first to begin exploration.
What is Portugal?
200
This continent was considered "equal" to Europe.
What is Asia?
200
The instrument provides directions through use of a magnetized needle that always points north.
What is a compass?
200

Raw materials left a colony and came back as this.

What is manufactured goods (finished product)?

200
Christianity was spread into Asia by these people.
What is a missionary?
300
This explorer found the southern tip of Africa.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
300
North and South America was known as this.
What is "New" world
300
This instrument using the sun and stars to chart latitude.
What is an astrolabe?
300
This is an economic system where people owned property, making goods, and buying and selling freely.
What is Capitalism?
300
This is type of trade that developed between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the triangular trade?
400
This explorer sailed around Africa and found the sea route to Asia by way of India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
400
This area was colonized by the Portuguese after the Treaty of Tordesillas moved the line of demarcation further west.
What is Brazil?
400
This is another name for a mapmaker.
What is a cartographer?
400
This is a type of system where individual buyers and sellers exchanged goods and services.
What is market economy?
400
These two things happened to African society as a result of the slave trade.
What is loss of workers and family separation?
500
This country gained the most territory as a result of the line of demarcation.
What is Spain?
500
These two countries were the first to colonize in the "New" world.
What is Spain and Portugal?
500
This is a fast, highly maneuverable sailing ship that used lateen (triangular) sails.
What is a caravel?
500
A market economy is driven by this.
What is supply and demand?
500
These are the three types of colonies developed in the "New" world.
What is Plantation, Settler, and Trading Post?
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