Explorers
Old vs. New
Age of Exploration
Trade
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100

This explorer sailed the ocean blue in 1492, landed in Hispaniola and called the region the West Indies

Who is Christopher Columbus?

100

Potatoes are from the ____________ World

What is New?

100

This word means to sail around

Circumnavigate

100

This is the name of the trade formation between the Americas, Europe, and Africa, trading raw materials, manufactured goods, and people

What is triangular trade?

100

This is the name of the trade route connecting Asia, the Middle East, and Europe

What is the Silk Road?

200

This explorer sailed around the globe

Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

200

Horses came from the ___________ World

What is Old?

200

These are the three main reasons for exploration during the 1400s-1700s 

What is Gold, God, and Glory (3 G's)?

200

This is the name of trade of goods, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, named after a famous explorer

What is the Columbian Exchange?

200

The first country to launch large-scale voyages of exploration

What is Portugal?

300

This individual started a school for navigation and sponsored 50 voyages although he never explored himself.

Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?

300

A land claim that is settled by a country in a foreign land

What is a colony?

300

These are privately owned companies that sold stock to investors to make a profit

What are Joint Stock Companies?

300

This caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Native Americans brought over unknowingly by Europeans

What is diseases (ex. Smallpox, Measles)?

300

This was the first British settlement in the future US, NOT PERMANENT!

What is Roanoke?

400

This explorer was the first to reach India by sailing around the tip of Africa

Who is Vasco da Gama?

400

This social group was born in America to Spanish parents, usually held government/church positions or were land owners

Who were the Creoles?

400

This ship combined square sails of European ships with the triangular sails of Arab vessels; helped sail into wind and had a large cargo area

What is a caravel?

400

This is the nickname for the trading of slaves from Africa to the Americas across the Atlantic Ocean

What is the Middle Passage?

400

This is the name of the Dutch colony in North America, explored by Henry Hudson

What is New Netherlands?

500

This individual wrote a book about the unfair and poor treatment of Native Americans, resulted in Africans being used as slaves.

Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
500

This treaty was put in place by the Pope that divided the world into 2 zones - Spain gets anything west of the Line while Portugal gets anything east of the Line

What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?

500

This policy stated that a (1) country's wealth is measured in gold, (2) the role of a colony is to enrich the Mother Country, and (3) create a "Favorable Balance of Trade)

What is Mercantilism?

500
Spain gave the conquistadors the right to demand labor from natives living on their land 

What is the Encomienda System?

500

Describe the conditions on African slave ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

OR

Draw the diagram explaining how Mercantilism works.

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