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

Which country claimed Canada first?

France

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

The magnetic compass always points ...

What is 'North'?

200

What was the purpose of China's exploration of new place?

To show strength, wealth, and power. 

200

How did Indigenous peoples die without a single shot being fired?

Disease

200

This explorer conquered the Aztecs.

Hernan Cortes

200

Where did Columbus think he landed?

India

200

What ocean did explorers have to cross to get to the "New World"

Atlantic Ocean

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

There are two continents named after me.

Amerigo Vespucci

300

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

What is 'Spain'?

300

Where was Ferdinand Magellan killed by natives? 

the Philippines 

400

This group was technically the first to arrive in North America, even before Columbus

The Vikings.

400

A series of trade routes connecting Europe and Asia by land.

Silk Road

400

My crew was the first to sail around the world

Ferdinand Magellan 

400

What ocean did Zheng He mainly sail in. 

Indian Ocean

400

What were the names of Columbus' three ships

Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria

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

How long were some of the ships Zheng He sailed on?

400ft

600

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

Triangular Trade

600

What was the name of the Spanish class system that enslaved the Native Americans?

Encomienda System.

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

In what modern US state is the Hudson River located?

New York

600

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

Mercantilism

700

What caused the caused the Atlantic/international slave trade to become a major economic activity? 

Native population died out, more land to be farmed, and the Africans were immune to European disease. 

700

Name of the passage that ran through the Triangle of Trade

Middle Passage

700

Where were the Aztecs located?

Mexico

700

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

Where is Thirteen Colonies?

700

What three major continents were apart of the Triangle of Trade?

Europe, North America, and Africa.