Age of Exploration Causes
Age of Exploration Vocabulary
Age of Exploration Explorers
Age of Exploration Places
Age of Exploration Miscellaneous
100

First country to start the exploration

What is Portugal?

100

The Spanish name given to a Spanish explorer/soldiers who searched for wealth in the Americas

Who are 'conquistadors'?

100

I am an explorer for Spain who searched for a shorter route to Asia and accidentally ended up in the Americas calling the Natives "Indians"

Who is 'Christopher Columbus'?

100

The Age of exploration started on this continent 

Europe 

100

Which group of people did Columbus encounter in the Bahamas?

Who are the Taino people?

200

The purchase of Manhattan led to war between the _____________ and the Native Americans.

Who are the Dutch?

200

Amount of Native Americans that died without a single shot being fired, and how?

up to 90%, because of disease


200

This explorer conquered the Aztecs.

Cortes

200

Where did Columbus think he landed?

India

200

This was a religious settlement established by Spanish Catholics in the Americas to spread Christianity. 

What are Missionaries. 

300

Major cause of Age of Exploration

What is to find a trade Route to Asia/India?

300

This was named after Spanish explorer, and is the exchange plants, animals, culture, people, technology, DISEASES, and ideas between the new world, and the Old World .


What is the Colombian exchange?

300

I am the explorer who had a river, strait, and bay named after me.

Who is Henry Hudson.

300

This country was able to set up the most colonies over in the New World

What is 'Spain'?

300

Tracts of farmland given to wealthy colonists by the Spanish were known as ________________? 

What are haciendas.

400

This group was the most powerful in the Spanish colonies. They were Spanish-born people called the ________________

The Mestizos.

400

What was the Spanish Armada

Fleet of 130 Spanish Warships

400

I am the explorer wo attempted to increase the population of New France but failed because the French government refused to let Protestants settle in New France

Who is Samuel de Champlain.

400

What was is name of the Incan City high in the Andes mountains that was abandoned and forgotten for hundreds of years?

Maccu Piccu 

400

Under this form of slavery people were classified as goods with no rights.

What is chattel slavery?
500

The three motivations reasons for Europeans to explore during the Age of Exploration

To find gold, explore (find new trade routes) and spread Christianity. (Gold, God, Glory)

500

Sailing around the world...

What is 'circumnavigate'?

500

He led the conquest of the Inca Empire in present-day Peru

What is Francisco Pizarro?

500

Christopher Columbus first landed here

Where is Hispaniola( present day Haiti and Dominica Republic?

500

Which European country challenged Spain's position as the dominant world power by defeating the Spanish Armada in 1588

Who is England
600

The trade routes between Africa, Europe and the Americas during the Atlantic Slave Trade.

Triangular Trade

600

This a Treaty that divided the EASTERN and the WESTERN hemisphere between Portugal and Spain.

What is Treaty of Tordesillas?

600

A Portuguese explorer, was the first European to sail directly from Europe to India, opening a sea route to the lucrative spice trade in Asia.

Who is Vasco De Gama?

600

First Place that the Portuguese landed in Africa while trying to find a water route to India

Where is Morocco?

600

The dominant economic theory of the time in which countries power was based on wealth.

Mercantilism

700

The Spanish appointed ______________ to rule the territories claimed by Spain.

Who are viceroys.

700

The Voyage of ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean carrying enslaved Africans to the Americas was known as the _____________________

What is the Middle Passage?

700

 Aztecs location

Mexico

700

The name of colonies given when the English first Landed in the New World?

Where is Thirteen Colonies?

700

The POINTS of the Triangle Trade and the Atlantic Slave Trade

What are the outward passage, middle passage and Homeward Passage?