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What two countries led the Age of Exploration?
Spain and Portugal
100
What Portuguese explorer sailed down the African coast as far as modern-day Capetown?
Bartholomew Dias
100
When did Christopher Columbus first discover the "West Indies"?
1492
100
What treaty divided the Americas between Spain and Portugal?
Treaty of Tordesillas
100
French explorers kept looking for a water route through North America called the...
Northwest Passage
200
What country is furthest West in Europe?
Portugal
200
What Portuguese explorer sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to India for the first time?
Vasco de Gama
200
Who led the conquest of the Aztec empire?
Cortez
200
At what longitude line is the Line of Demarcation between Spanish territory and Portuguese territory?
50 degrees West
200
When a ship's crew turns against the captain, that is called a...
mutiny
300
Christopher Columbus sailed for what country?
Spain
300
Who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth?
Magellan
300
Pizarro led the conquest of what empire?
Inca
300
Besides war and Spanish attack, what led to the demise of the Aztecs and Incas?
European diseases
300
When sailors became unhealthy because of a lack of protein or healthy food, it was often...
Scurvy
400
Marco Polo, an explorer on the overland route to Asia, was originally from what country?
Italy
400
Who took a western route to Asia, but discovered the Americas?
Christopher Columbus
400
Who was the first European explorer to see the Pacific Ocean from mainland North America?
Balboa
400
Which country gained the most land with the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Spain
400
The overland road between Europe and Asia, used mostly from the 1200s to the 1500s
Silk Road
500
Cartier and LaSalle were explorers from what country?
France
500
Who is an English pirate who sailed around the Earth and also attacked Spanish ships?
Sir Francis Drake
500
What is the name for the exchange of foods, animals, and customs between the Old World and the New World?
The Columbian Exchange
500
Who first named the Native Americans "Indians"?
Christopher Columbus
500
Which empire blocked the Silk Road and made it too dangerous for Europeans to travel there?
Ottoman Empire
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