Silk Rd
The Silk Road or Route linked trade between _____ and _______.
Europe and Asia
The first European group to make it to North America in the "New World."
Who were the Vikings (or Lief Erikson)?
The new type of ship that made ocean exploration possible.
What is the Caravel?
Christopher Columbus was born in ____
Where is Genoa Italy?
Name 2 animals that were brought to the Americas from Europe.
What are the: horse, pig, cattle, goat, sheep
________ _________ wrote a book about his travels along the Silk Road.
Who is Marco Polo.
Name 2 places the Vikings sailed to from their home in Norway/Sweden.
What is Iceland, Greenland, Denmark, England, Scotland, Ireland, North America (Canada)?
The type of sail that would work with the wind going either way.
What was the lateen sail or the triangular sail?
Christopher studied __________ as a young boy. (Name 2 things)
What is reading, geography, navigation, Marco Polo's book.
Name 3 foods that were brought to the Americas from Europe.
What is/are: apples, pears, olives, rye, wheat, oats, barley...
Name 3 products or goods that came to Europe from Asia.
What is/are: silk, spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, pepper), paper, compass, wall paper, etc.
Name 2 countries that sent explorers to the Americas.
What is Spain, France, England, Portugal...
This prince gathered experts to work on navigation improvements.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
CC thought he could get to Asia by _________
What is sailing west?
Name the most important food from the Americas that helped stop starvation in Europe and Africa?
What is potatoes?
This group put a stop to the land route of the Silk Rd. and forced Europeans to look toward a sea route.
Who are the Ottoman Turks or Muslims?
Name 2 explorers in this Age of Exploration who went near or onto the continents of North/South America?
Who is Amerigo Vespucci, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, Henry Hudson...
Name a navigation tool that helped improve figuring out location while out at sea.
What is the astrolabe or compass or later sextant or chronometer.?
Name 2 or 3 countries that CC asked to pay for his trip to Asia.
Who was Spain/Italy/Portugal?
What came from the Old World and was catastrophic to the Native American population?
What is smallpox. (disease)
The emperor Marco Polo worked for in China was____
Who is Kublai Kahn.
Who was the first explorer who circumnavigated the earth?
Who is Magellan? Really - it's his crew that were still alive! Magellan died in the Philappines.
About how many miles is the circumference of the earth?
What is about 25,000 miles?
What are some of the ways CC showed he had a negative, cruel side?
What is forcing Natives to look for gold and harming them (cutting off fingers, hands) if they didn't get any. What is treated Spanish settlers harshly?
What huge impact happened in the Americas because of the Columbian Exchange?
What was the land being forever altered by new weeds, plants, animals (pigs digging, etc.)...
(take acceptable answers).