Trade
Which luxury goods from the Far East were Europeans most eager to trade for in the 15th century?
Silk and spices
Before Columbus, the first European to reach America was...
Leif Erikson
John Cabot's explorations in 1497 and 1498 gave which country its claim to the mainland of North America?
Spain's main competitor in trade monopoly was
Portugal
Hernan Cortes was an explorer from
Spain
Why did various European nations seek an all-water route to Asia instead of using traditional land routes?
Overland routes were dangerous, expensive, and controlled by the Ottoman Turks
Which Viking explorer established the first European settlements in Greenland?
Erik the Red
John Cabot, an Italian explorer sailing for England, was searching for a rumored waterway called the...
Northwest Passage
Why is Vasco da Gama's voyage considered as successful from a financial standpoint?
He managed to reach India and bring back the luxury goods
Cortes was the first person to bring ..... to Europe
Chocolate
Which explorer was the first to find a direct all-water route from Europe to India by sailing around Africa?
Vasco Da Gama
Leif Erikson was the son of
Erik the Red
Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain in 1492 with three ships named
The Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria
Ferdinand Magellan gave the Pacific Ocean its name because the word means...
Peaceful
Tenochtitlan
What was the name of the new kind of ship developed in Portugal that could sail both with and into the wind?
Caravel
In the year A.D. 1000, Leif Erikson discovered a land he called "Vinland," which is present-day
Newfoundland
Who was the first person to recognize that North and South America were two distinct continents and not part of Asia?
Amerigo Vespucci
Many of Vasco da Gama's crew members died from scurvy, a disease caused by a lack of...
Fresh fruits and vegetables
Hernan Cortes was the first person to create settlements in
Mexico and California
Which navigation instrument was used by sailors to estimate their position based on the location of the stars and other objects in the sky?
Astrolabe
After rescuing shipwrecked sailors on his voyage home, Leif Erikson earned what nickname?
Leif the Lucky
The name "America" was first used on a map in 1507 by a German cartographer named...
Martin Waldseemüller
In May 1498, Vasco da Gama reached which city in India?
Calicut
The emperor of Aztecs was called
Montezuma