Age of Exploration Causes
First country to start the exploration
What is Portugal?
The Spanish name given to a Spanish explorer/soldiers who searched for wealth in the Americas
Who are 'conquistadors'?
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'?
The Age of exploration started on this continent
Europe
Columbus called the people where he landed in the New World this
Indians
This small, fast, and highly maneuverable ship developed by the Portuguese made long ocean voyages possible during the Age of Exploration.
What is the caravel?
Amount of Native Americans that died without a single shot being fired, and how?
up to 90%, because of disease
This explorer conquered the Aztecs.
Cortes
Where did Columbus think he landed?
What is the Indies?
This was a religious settlement established by Spanish Catholics in the Americas to spread Christianity.
What are Missionaries.
Major cause of Age of Exploration
What is to find a trade Route to Asia/India?
This boundary, created by the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494, divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
I am the explorer who had a river, strait, and bay named after me.
Who is Henry Hudson.
This country was able to set up the most colonies over in the New World
What is 'Spain'?
This was the first English settlement in North America (1607)
What is Jamestown?
This Spanish system allowed Native Americans to be used as slave laborers.
Encomienda
What was the Spanish Armada
Fleet of 130 Spanish Warships
I am the explorer who founded Quebec, the first permanent French settlement in the Americas.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
Son of Viking the Red
Who is Leif Eriksson?
This Asian subcontinent was the primary destination European explorers like Vasco da Gama sought to reach in order to establish a direct sea route for spices and trade.
What is India?
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)
Sailing around the world...
What is 'circumnavigate'?
He led the conquest of the Inca Empire in present-day Peru
What is Francisco Pizarro?
Christopher Columbus first landed here
Where is Hispaniola( present day Haiti and Dominica Republic?
Which European country challenged Spain's position as the dominant world power by defeating the Spanish Armada in 1588
This Portuguese royal sponsored early voyages along the west coast of Africa and established a school for navigation, earning him this nickname.
Prince Henry the Navigator
This man suggested Columbus had discovered a new world and had two continents named after him!
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
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?
In 1497, this Italian explorer sailing under the English flag reached the coast of Newfoundland, giving England its first claim to the New World.
Who is John Cabot?
The dominant economic theory of the time in which countries power was based on wealth.
Mercantilism
In 1487, this Portuguese explorer discovered the Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Bartholmeu Dias?
This term describes the transfer of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres following Columbus’s voyages.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Aztecs location
Mexico
The name of colonies given to the English settlements in the New World?
What is the Thirteen Colonies?
This group of people landed at Plymouth in 1620. Name them and their ship.
The pilgrims and the Mayflower