Explorers Routes
Columbian Exchange
Other Important Facts
100

This explorer traveled along the Silk Road and wrote many of his adventures down in book

Marco Polo

100

The Columbian Exchange is named after what Spanish Explorer who discovered America

Christopher Columbus

100

The VOC (Dutch East India Company) created a monopoly on what spice in the East Indies

Nutmeg

200

This French Explorer found Canada for the French

Jacques Cartier

200

This animal brought to the New World helped indigenous communities hunt and carry supplies back and forth. 

Horses

200

What disease did Sailors get for not getting enough Vitamins?

Scurvy

300

This Portuguese Explorer traveled around Africa to India, setting up a pepper trade 

Vasco Da Gama

300

This disease, brought over by Europeans, wiped out the native population 

Small pox

300

These new ships revolutionized sea travel across the world

Caravel and Carrack

400

This English Explorer is known for circumnavigating the world and stealing from Spanish Ships

Sir Francis Drake

400

This item, brought from the new world to the old world, became an extremely valuable cash crop found in the Americas.

(HINT: This crop started in the New World)

Tobacco

400

What territory did England and France have conflict over during the Age of Exploration?

Canada

500

This Moroccan born explorer traveled along the known Muslim world and became the most famous Muslim Explorer of all time

Ibn Battuta

500
Name 5 items that originated from the Old World and were brought to the New World

Bananas, Barley Cabbages Pears Chickens Coffee Honey Bees Cattle (Cows) Pepper Okra Cinnamon Horses Lemons Lettuce Collard Greens Olives Oranges Peaches Oats Pigs Rice Sheep Sugarcane Ginger Goats Wheat Grapes Onions


500

Which country, NOT one of the big 4, explored the East Indies?

The Netherlands

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