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What were the reasons that Europeans were looking for new trade routes to Asia?
They wanted a faster and safer way to get to Asia
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What were the names of the 3 ships Columbus used?
The Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria
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Who was the first explorer who also began a school for sailors?
Prince Henry the Navigator
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Why did the Native American tribes fail when they fought with the Spanish?
The Spanish had guns and cannons but the Native Americans only had arrows, knives, and stones.
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What kinds of goods did the Europeans get from Asia?
Silk and spices
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Who paid for Christopher Columbus’s trip?
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
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What did Prince Henry the Navigator invent?
A sailing ship called a caravel
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What country was the first to have a settlement in North America (Florida)?
Spain
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Why did the Europeans not want to travel to Asia by land?
It was dangerous. There were thieves and wars along the way.
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What country did King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella come from?
Spain
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What is the name of the ship that was invented to go fast and long distances?
Caravel
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What ways did the Native Americans suffer after Europeans came to America?
Lost land, disease, slavery, treasures taken
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Where did Columbus think that he had landed?
India
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What year did Christopher Columbus find land in the Americas?
1492
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What is the name of another explorer (other than Columbus) that we read about?
Ferdinand Magellan
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What are 3 of the 6 reasons for exploration?
Wealth, fame, national pride, religion, foreign goods, better trade routes
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What does it mean to “Claim” lands?
To say that those lands belong to them (or the country they live in)
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What did Christopher Columbus call the native people that lived on the island that he landed on?
Indians
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What did Ferdinand Magellan do (or prove could be done)?
Sail around the world
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What are the other 3 of the 6 reasons for exploration?
Wealth, fame, national pride, religion, foreign goods, better trade routes
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