Explorers
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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 because they were not at war.
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 made it to India around the tip of Africa.
Who is Vasco Da Gama?
300
These two countries kicked out Europeans from trading in their countries.
What is China and Japan?
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 suggested that Columbus discovered a "New World."
Who is Amerigo Vesupucci?
400
The term for what Magellan did when he completed a journey around the Earth.
What is circumnavigate?
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.
Some tribes got stronger, some got weaker.
500
This was a treaty signed by the Pope, Spain, and Portugal to decide who got to settle where in the Americas.
Treaty of Tordesillas
500
What was constructed in coastal cities to help Europeans access local markets?
What are Trading Posts?
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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