Exploration
This term is used to describe a voyage in which one circles the globe, returning to where one began.
What is circumnavigation?
This early English settlement was the first permanent British settlement in the Americas, with the English monarch as it's namesake.
What is Jamestown?
This small vessel allowed for easier cargo transportation due to it's lightweight and innovative sail designs, as well as it's ability to maneuver into bays easily.
What is a caravel?
This Italian explorer, seeking an alternate route to India on behalf of the Spanish royals, actually found found various islands of the Caribbean, a fact that he would not learn in his lifetime.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
These pair of explorers set off from St. Louis, Missouri, in 1804, journeying across the Western Frontier, reaching the Pacific Ocean in 1806. (Name One)
Who are Meriwether Lewis and William Clark ?
This trade company, run by the Dutch, focused on the spice and novelty trade in modern day Malaysia and Indonesia.
What is the Dutch East India Company, or the VOC?
This misnomer was used by early European explorers to describe the islands of the Caribbean and their inhabitants; also used for their Eastern counterparts.
What are the (West) Indies?
These state-sponsored corporations managed and governed territories and goods, with the aim of turning a profit.
What is a trade company?
This Portuguese explorer is credited as being the first person to sail around Africa, reaching India in the year 1498.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This powder was used greatly as an early explosive in the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods; originating from China.
What is Gunpowder?
This Canadian province is the modern-day location of two early French settlements upon the St. Lawrence River, still present today.
Where is Québec?
This strait, located between Indonesia and Malaysia, was a highly valued point of control, where all maritime trade between China and India flowed.
What is the Strait of Malacca?
These companies were formed of multiple shareholders; often used to form colonies.
What is a joint-stock company?
This Italian explorer and mapmaker is credited with collecting evidence of the presence of a "fourth continent", now know as the Americas.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This German monk instigated a religious revolution, resulting in the Reformation Movement.
Who is Martin Luther?
This city was conquered by Hernán Cortés and his expeditionary army in 1521, resulting in the fall of the Aztec Empire?
What is Tenochtitlan?
This point is the tip of the African continent, viewed by Bartolomeu Dias on his voyage to the south of Africa.
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
These large ships were used by the Spanish to carry large quantities of goods, normally heavily armed.
What are galleons?
This royal couple enlisted the help of various explorers to discover and claim territory for Spain, such as Christopher Columbus. (Name One)
Who are Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile?
This conflict was the result of the Argentinian invasion of a part of the United Kingdom.
What is the Falkland War?
This city, said to be shaped like a puma, served as the Inca capital city until 1533.
What is Cuzco?
This Caribbean island, visited on all four voyages by Christopher Columbus, is home to the modern-day countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
What is Hispaniola (or Santo Domingo)?
These colonies were owned and governed by an individual or a group, separate of the monarch; see Maryland, Pennsylvania.
What are proprietary colonies?
This pope initiated arbitration in the dispute between Spain and Portugal over territory in the New World.
Who is Pope Alexander VI?
This Virginia city served as the capital city of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
What is Richmond, Virginia?