Age of Exploration

Linking Expansion with Technology
and Science

European Influence
in the Americas

European Influence
in Africa

European Influence
in Asia
100
Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria
What is the name of the three ships that Christopher Columbus used to sail to the "Indies?"
100
North
What is the direction that the needle of the compass points to?
100
Charters
What are written agreements?
100
North America
Where did the majority of African slaves go during the Columbian Exchange?
100
Melaka
What is the name of the group of islands that the Europeans called the "spice islands?"
200
Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
Which two individuals provided the funds for Christopher Columbus to explore the new world?
200
Astrolabe
What is the object that used the sun and star's position to figure out latitude?
200
France
What is the name of the European Colony that had the most Trading Post Empires?
200
Smallpox
What is the name of the disease that killed many Native Americans?
200
Isolationism
What is the movement called when a country wants to cut off all connections with other countries?
300
Marco Polo
What is the name of the man who traveled the silk road in the late 1200s to buy spices, silks, and other Asian goods?
300
Muslim Traders
Where did the Europeans get the idea of gunpowder?
300
France
What is the name of the colony that treated the Native Americans with the most respect?
300
Lower Decks
What is the place that African Americans stayed when they were transported to America?
300
Dutch
What is the name of the colony that pushed the Portuguese out of the "spice islands?"
400
Prince Henry the Navigator
Who is the son of King John I that set up a naval research center in 1420?
400
Rudder
What is the movable, flat piece at the end of the ship called?
400
Hernan Cortez
What is the name of the man who invaded Cuba and plumaged into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula?
400
Maroons
What is the name of the runaway slaves that wanted to start a life in the Bahamas?
400
Dutch
What is the name of the colony that only wanted to trade with China and Japan, not to share their religon?
500
Francisco Pizarro
What is the name of the man who discovered what is now Lima?
500
Gunpowder
What is the result of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and carbon called when mixed together?
500
Philip II
What is the name of the king who set a huge armada to invade England in 1558?
500
Creole and Amistas
What is the name of the two slave ships that African Americans used to revolt?
500
Philippines
What is the name of the place that the Spanish found excellent soil?
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