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What was the Age of Exploration?
Period during the 15th and 16th centuries when Europeans began to explore other parts of the world.
How many ships did Columbus have?
3
Name 1 disease that killed the native population of the 'New World'.
Smallpox
Name 1 disease that killed the native population of the 'New World'.
Typhus
Name a navigation tool used by explorers
Compass, map, knots, sextants, caravel, North Star, Sun, and hour glass
Name 1 food brought from America to Europe following the Age of Exploration.
Potatoes
List 2 reasons why people went exploring?
Wealth for countries
new trade routes
Who was the first European to round the Cape of Good Hope?
Bartholomew Diaz.
What treaty did the Pope get Spain and Portugal to sign to avoid war over the newly discovered lands?
The Treaty of Tordesillas.
Name 1 food brought from America to Europe following the Age of Exploration.
Coffee beans
Who sponsored Christopher Columbus?
Ferdinand and Isabella.
Name 1 civilisation that was destroyed by the European arrival in the 'New World'.
Incas
Where did Columbus think he had landed?
India
Where was Christopher Columbus from?
Genoa, Italy
Name 1 civilisation that was destroyed by the European arrival in the 'New World'.
Aztecs
What contribution did Vasco da Gama make to the Age of Exploration?
Reached India by sailing around Africa.
Name 1 conquistador.
Cortés
Why is Prince Henry the Navigator historically significant?
Mapped and explored the coast of Africa.
What is circumnavigation?
a journey that goes all the way around the world, returning to the starting point
Name 1 conquistador.
Pizzaro
Give 1 immediate consequence of the Age of Exploration
Death of native peoples
In what year did Columbus sail "the ocean blue"
1492
Give 1 immediate consequence of the Age of Exploration
Destruction of native civilisations.
What were the names of Columbus' ships?
The Nina, The Pinta and the Santa Maria
What was a conquistador?
Conquers who followed the initial explorers