Early Explorers
The earliest recorded European explorer to travel through Asia
Who is Marco Polo?
Name for the Dutch colony in the Americas
What is New Netherlands?
How did the caravel, compass, and astrolabe help European nations dominate the New World?
What is helped Europeans easily navigate the oceans?
Led a school of Portuguese sailors exploring the coast of Africa
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
Explored the New England coastline for England
Who is John Cabot?
Besides weapons, why were the Europeans able to conquer the natives so easily?
What is the spread of diseases?
Portuguese explorer who rounded the southern tip of Africa
Who is Bartholmew Dias?
Portuguese explorer who became the first to sail for India and return with spices
Who is Vasco de Gama?
Treaty that divided the Atlantic world between Spain and Portugal
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Name 3 goods did Europeans exchange with African tribes for captured slaves?
What are raw materials, goods, rum, sugar, tobacco, cotton, weapons and cloth?
Chinese explorer who made seven voyages in the 1400s
Who is Zheng He?
What device helped sailors find direction by using a magnetized needle which always pointed north?
What is the compass?
Circumnavigated the globe?
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
How did technological advancements in Europe, such as gunpowder, impact the native people in areas of European exploration?
Who is domination?
How did the expansion of European empires impact the cultures of the New World?
It spread new economic and religious ideas to the New World.
Another name for the Spice Islands
What is the Moluccas?