Explorers
Columbus accidentally "discovered" the new world. Where did he believe he landed?
What is India (Asia)?
The first successful English colony in Virginia.
What is a Jamestown?
The exchange of people and other living things from the eastern to western hemisphere is known as what?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
How did mercantilism measure a nation's wealth?
What is in bullion (gold and silver)?
Bartolomeu Dias named the Southern tip of Africa "Cape of Storms" but shortly after John II of Portugal renamed it this...
What is Cape of Good Hope?
I am given credit for being the first person to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan
The only colony (rather large one) in the New World belonging to Portugal.
What is Brazil?
This Empire helped to bring about the Age of Discovery. When they conquered Constantinople, and forced Europeans to search for other trade routes to Asia.
What is The Ottoman Empire?
What will occur when Supply exceeds demand?
What is there will be a surplus?
A disease caused by lack of vitamin C, sickened sailors who had no access to fresh food supplies, and killed more than 2 million sailors between the 16th and 18th centuries
What is scurvy?
Prince Henry the Navigator was an explorer from this kingdom.
Kingdom of Portugal
Drawn by the Pope to divide the Americas between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
What Mesoamerican empire was Hernán Cortés responsible for conquering?
Who is the Aztec Empire?
There is a drought that causes less strawberries to be produced so there are very few cartons in the store. People still want to buy strawberries. What will happen to the price of strawberries?
What is the price of strawberries will go up?
This term for measuring the speed of a ship came from a device called a “common log.” Which was a coil of rope with uniformly spaced knots tied in it, attached to a piece of wood shaped like a slice of pie.
What are knots?
What role did Vasco da Gama play in the growth of the Portuguese empire?
What is, he led the first European expedition to reach India by sea?
This was the person put in charge of the Spanish colonies, ruled in the name of the King.
What is a Viceroy?
Weavers working in their homes became known as what?
What is a cottage industry?
Independence Day is coming up (4th of July), what would we expect in regards to demand and price of fireworks?
What is the demand and price of fireworks will go up?
Instrument used by sailors to measure positions of stars and figure out their latitude.
What is an Astrolabe?
They named America after me.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
Gave Spanish settlers the right to demand labor and taxes from Native Americans.
What is the Encomienda?
English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh brought this vegetable to the Emerald Isle in 1589 after 16th-century Spanish conquistadors had discovered it in Peru.
What is the potato?
Mercantilist nations in Europe sought to limit imports by?
What is taxing goods from foreign countries (Tariffs)?
Edward Teach (Blackbeard) and Sir Francis Drake worked in this profession, where England gave them legal permission to carry about pirate-like attacks against the ships and settlements of enemy nations.
What are Privateers?