Europe Gets Ready to Explore
Exploring the World
Building Empires
The Commercial Revolution
Government and Trade
100
Set off from Europe on a great trek across Asia to China
Who is Marco Polo?
100
A powerful country that searched for sea routes to Asia.
Where was Portugal?
100
Explorers that received grants from the Spanish rulers.
What is a conquistador?
100
Families that loan money to finance their ventures, and as a business.
Who were the Fuggers, and the Medici families?
100
A buildup of gold and silver
What is a bullion?
200
A instrument that measures the stars' position.
What is an astrolabe?
200
Wrote about being around the cape of storms.
Who was Bartholomeu Dias?
200
A conquistador who was shipwrecked on an island near present day Texas.
Who was Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca?
200
They legally supported banks.
What is charter?
200
The theory that a nation became powerful by building up wealth through gold and silver.
What is Mercantilism?
300
Determines the ships' position.
What is a Chinese Compass?
300
Claimed an island and named it San Salvador for Spain.
What did Columbus do?
300
The most advanced and largest Native American civilization.
Who were the Aztec, and the Inca?
300
Entreprenuers
Who combined money, ideas, raw materials, and labor to make goods and profits?
300
A global exchange of people, goods, technology, ideas, and diseases.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
400
A small vessel that could float in shallow water, and sails faster than the average boats.
What is a three-masted caravel?
400
The Strait of Magellan.
What is a narrow passage around Asia?
400
Searched for Gold and the legendary fountain of youth.
Who was Juan Ponce de Leon?
400
London's broadest avenue.
What is Cheapside?
400
A settlement of people living in a new territory controlled by their home country.
What is a colony?
500
Increased trade between Europe, and the lands to the east.
Who were the Crusaders?
500
Galleon
What is a boat that carried Gold and Silver to different countries?
500
Attacked and destroyed the Aztec Empire.
Who was Hernan Cortes?
500
The nation had replaced the city and village as the basic economic unit in Europe.
What happened by the 1600s?
500
To sell goods broadly.
What is exporting?
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