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What is the name for a Spanish explorer and conqueror?
Conquistador
Which country sent explorers like Vasco Núñez de Balboa and Hernán Cortés to claim land in the Western Hemisphere?
A. Spain
B. Portugal
C. France
D. England
Spain
Explorers include Giovanni da Verrazzano, Jacques
Cartier, and Samuel de Champlain.
a. England
b. France
c. The Netherlands
d. Portugal
e. Spain
France
Columbus landed in the ________________________________________.
Spain then sent more voyages to explore what they called the “New World”.
Americas
What is the act of traveling to new lands, ideas, or things?
Exploration
European Exploration increased after China closed the:
A. Port at Nanjing
B. Tibetan Plateau Path
C. Khyber Pass
D. Silk Roads
Silk Roads
Bartolomeu Diaz and Vasco da Gama made the first
successful all-water routes to Asia by going around
Africa.
a. England
b. France
c. The Netherlands
d. Portugal
e. Spain
Portugese
A _______ is a territory that is ruled by is more powerful country.
Colony
Prior to being called the Americas, Europeans nicknamed the Western Hemisphere:
A. Columbus Land
B. Brazil
C. West Asia
D. The New World
The New World
Henry Hudson helped to claim territory that extended
from New Jersey to New York and Connecticut.
a. England
b. France
c. The Netherlands
d. Portugal
e. Spain
The Dutch/ Neatherlands
Ferdinand and Isabella of _____________________ funded the voyage of _________________________________________ to find a faster trade route to Asia by sailing
______________________.
1. Spain
2. Christopher Columbus
3. West across the Atlantic
The transatlantic trading of goods across the Atlantic between the American colonies,
Europe and Africa was called the _______________________________________.
Columbian Exchange
What was the name of the difficult and forced voyage of African slaves across the
Atlantic Ocean called?
A. Triangle Trade
B. Slave Voyage
C. Middle Passage
D. Northwest Passage
Middle passage
Conquistadors like Hernán Cortés and Francisco
Pizarro took down powerful empires like the Aztecs
and Incas.
a. England
b. France
c. The Netherlands
d. Portugal
e. Spain
Spain
List 2 countries.
Then write 2 similarities and 2 differences about the exploration of those countries.
European explorers looked for a __________________________________ to get to Asia by sailing through the Arctic Ocean.
Northwest passage
Pedro Álvares Cabral was sent to find a passage to Asia through the Americas, but found Brazil instead. He explored for which country?
a. England
b. France
c. The Netherlands
d. Portugal
e. Spain
Portugal
Sir Walter Raleigh named Virginia in honor of his
Queen.
a. England
b. France
c. The Netherlands
d. Portugal
e. Spain
England