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Edad de la exploración
It's all about the Benjamins
We get what's left....(First one is Final Jeopardy)
Pics or it didn't happen
200

The renaissance began here because of the wealth flowing into these places as trade began to pick up in Europe

Italian city-states such as Venice 

200

3 G's of Exploration? 

God Gold Glory 

200

This country was the firs to really get the ball rolling on Exploration

Portugal 

200

This Italian idiot's voyage was sponsored by the Spanish crown and completely changed world history. 

Columbus 

200

The most profitable crops raised in the New World on plantations 

Sugar Cane 

200

Name, Where, why

Las Castas, Spanish and Portuguese Colonies, ethnic/racial mixing needed hierarchy

200

Where who and why name

Russia. Peter. Westernization. winter palace 

400

Wealthy citizens who funded and used Art as a means of displaying power and grandeur.

Patrons

400

The vast global exchange of goods, people, ideas, and diseases that took place when Europe began colonizing the New World

Columbian Exchange 

400

Prince Henry of Portugal was given this nickname even though he never sailed far away from land to lose sight of it.  He actually made a school for Sailors though 

The Navigator 

400

The name of the Spanish/Portuguese conquerors in the 1500s

Conquistador 

400

Name 4 New World plantation crops

Sugar. Tobacco, Cotton, Coffee, cacao, bananas 

400

The first successful English colony in the New World

Jamestown

400

Where and who name? 

Agra fort, Mughal India, Akbar the Great 

600

Topics of Renaissance Art included 

Humanism, realism, typically religious but some secular topics as well 

600

The nickname of the land based Empires that heavily used artillery to expand and consolidate their empires in this time period 

Gunpowder Empires 

600

He was the first European to sail and find the bottom tip of Africa

Diaz 

600
The two great civilizations that were ended by the Spanish in Mexico and Peru 

Aztec and Inca 

600

What ended up happening with much of the silver the Spanish mined in the New World? 

They used it to fund wars and it eventually ended up in China when their goods were bought 

600

Why were much of the North American Colonies considered the "Colonial Backwater"? 

It's land was not seen as being as profitable since sugar cane was not as easily grown there

600

Name, Impact 

Qing/Manchu, multi cultural empire 

800

Most famous Renaissance person. Mona Lisa, Last supper, and his codex

Leonardo da Vinci 

800

Why were Western European countries wiling to sponsor and fund exploration in this time period?

They were all competing with one another and they were trying to find easier access to and control over the spice trade.

800

His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world. 

Magellan 

800

This was completed after Ferdinand and Isabella were married and they completely kicked the Muslims our of Spain

Reconquista

800

The wealthiest company that has ever existed was named this and they had a monopoly over this

Dutch East India Company. Spice Trade
800

This European Empire probably had the friendliest relations with the Natives because they heavily traded furs with them

French 

800

Whew Whew Whew 

Where? Empire? Name? What for? Impact? 


1000

SCULPTOR, PAINTER, ARCHITECT, POET

Statue of David and painted Sistine Chapel 

MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI

1000
This invention pushed the Scientific revolution and the reformation and probably had the biggest impact on history until the internet 

Printing Press

1000

He was the First European to sail all the way around Africa and into India was 

Vasco da Gama 

1000

Two advantages the Spanish and other Europeans had over the New World people

Guns, steel, germs, natives not united 

1000

Name 2 reasons why Africans were used as slaves instead of Native Americans 

immunity, close by and easy to get from Europe, they are not living near their people and don't know the land, they can be converted to Christianity. 

1000

They landed in modern day Manhattan and "bought" the Island from the natives naming it New Amsterdam" 

Dutch 

1000

Name, where, why, Result

Ottoman Kafes, keep heirs safe, crappy rulers

1200

Improved the telescope to make it more powerful

Observed: sunspots, mountains on the moon, Jupiter’s moons

1636 = published ideas on physics, astronomy, etc.

Book banned by the Catholic Church and he was put on trial and house arrest. 

 

Galileo

1200

The most impactful thing traded from the Old World to the New world

Disease

1200

Name two reasons the Portuguese Empire did not last and lost power over time.  

It was hard to controls small ports, especially for a country that was so small.  There were lots of corruption by officials in these areas and they heavily began trading with other empires weakening them. 

1200

Was the name of the enormous Spanish Silver mine found in the New World

Potosi

1200

Whew Whew Whew 

This is the economic theory that a country needs to export far more than it imports and this needs to be done by taking as many colonies as possible so you can have cheap imports. Thus you raise tariffs on other countries and do not allow your colonies to trade with them

1200

Name, where, why 

Ottoman Miniatures, every day lives

1400

SOME OF HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

INVENTED CLASSICAL MECHANICS (PHYSICS)

LAWS OF MOTION

GRAVITY

REMOVED ANY DOUBT ABOUT HELIOCENTRIC

CALCULATED THE SHAPE OF THE EARTH

CALCULATED SPEED OF SOUND

2X MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT

2ND SCIENTIST TO BE KNIGHTED

INVENTED:

CALCULUS

SPECTROSCOPY and more...

Newton

1400

The ______________________ Empire finally conquering the city of __________________ fueled exploration because_______________________

Ottoman, Constantinople, Western Europeans did not want to trade or deal with the Muslim Ottomans as much and wanted to find safer and cheaper routes to Asia  

1400

The Portuguese were said to have this type of Empire because they mostly controlled important centers of trade and ports around the world.

trading post empire.

1400

List two reasons the mighty Spanish Empire weakened over time 

Silver caused inflation

Wealth went directly to the crown instead of enriching the people of the country 

Charles the 2nd and his ...inbredness... 

Spanish Armada defeat 

1400

What was the key difference in the colonization of the British in what will become the 13 Colonies and the colonization of the Spanish and Portuguese in Latin America 

The British had more settler colonies where they actually lived and repopulated the land more so.  The Spanish and Portuguese mostly send men to conquer and administrate their colonies. 

1400

Where, who, why


Peter the Great Russia, beard tax, Westernize and not be Asian/Mongolian

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