Columbian Exchange
What items went to Europe from the Americas that changed history?
What are tomatoes, potatoes and corn?
Why did explorers sail close to land?
They were inexperienced and if anything went wrong they could swim to shore. Also some believed in small world theory.
Who set sail from Spain with 5 ships in the path of Columbus but didn't complete his journey
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
What was an undesired thing that was traded unintentionally in the Columbian Exchange?
What are diseases?
Where and what was the earliest European settlement in the Americas?
The Dutch West India Company settled in what is now New York.
What item was brought from Europe that was disastrous for Native Americans?
Pigs or animals and diseases
Where did Columbus actually land?
The Bahamas
What was Ponce de Leon in search of besides new lands?
What is the Fountain of Youth?
Who traveled to China and met with the great ruler Kublai Khan?
Who are the Polos.
Why was the Northwest Passage so difficult to pass Through?
It was usually covered by Arctic ice.
What was a positive thing for Native Americans that was brought over in the Columbian Exchange?
horses
Why were explorers looking for alternative ocean trade routes?
They were looking for alternative trade routes because the Silk Road had become dangerous and they were looking for faster routes.
What were Coronado and Ponce de Leon both looking for?
Mythical places that did not exist.
The Spanish imposed their way of life on the Native Americans, what does imposed really mean?
What is forced?
What colony was established and when White left for more supplies he returned 3 years later to find it had been abandoned?
What is the Lost Colony of Roanoke.
What item, brought from Europe, drastically changed the Americas especially in the South?
What is sugar cane
Why were items like silk and spices traded from Asia to Europe for great value?
They were traded for great value because they were only accessible in Asia
Who sailed from England to explore and then disappeared on his second voyage?
Who is John Cabot.
What are some of the technological advances that helped advance exploration? Give me 3.
What are the printing press, astrolabe, the compass, the stern rudder, the carrack, the sextant and the chronometer.
What was nearly impossible to pass through during the age of European exploration?
What is the Northwest Passage.
Why did the items potatoes, corn and tomatoes drastically impact Europe during the Columbian Exchange? (2 answers)
They drastically impacted the population of Europe because they were calorically dense foods and more food could grow in a smaller area and it is impossible to imagine Italian food without tomatoes.
What was traded besides goods in the Triangular trade?
What are slaves?
What was Hernan Cortes' reason for exploring?
To conquer and claim land and riches
Who was the first European historians believe visited North America?
Norse explorer Leif Erikson
What is a charter?
A document issued by the king or queen that allowed someone to found a colony.