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Early Exploration
Portugal
Spain
France
England/Netherlands
100

The series of trade routes that connected China and Europe over 800 years ago

The Silk Road

100

Name of Portugal's ruler who created a school for navigation and encouraged exploration

Prince Henry the Navigator

100
The rulers of Spain who funded Columbus's expedition in 1492
Queen Isabella and/or King Ferdinand
100

France also claimed the _______River Valley in the new world.

Mississippi River Valley

100

True or False: England explored and claimed areas in North America, including parts of Canada and the Eastern Coast of North America.

True

200
Chinese goods that European merchants wanted
silk, spices, gunpowder, and/or paper
200

Portugal was the first to explore _________ 

 Africa

200
What Columbus was trying find when he set sail from Spain in 1492
western sea route to Asia
200
French explorers were trying to find this famed passage that went over the northern coast of America to eventually reach Asia on the other side
The Northwest Passage
200

The Dutch established their trading colonies in mostly in _____ and one in current day US

Asia

300

Three reasons for exploration

god,gold,glory,guns

300

In 1487, he sailed around the tip of Africa and proved it was possible to reach its east coast (and then sail east to India)

Bartolomeu Dias

300

Spanish name for soldier conqueror

conquistador

300
French explorers set up trading posts for these in North America
furs
300

The original name for New York

New Amsterdam

400

The Line of _________ was an imaginary line running from the North to South Pole.  Spain could have what was to the west, Portugal to the East.

Demarcation (1493)

400

In 1498, he led the first Portuguese sailing voyage around Africa to India (other sailors soon followed his route to India and used it for spice trading). Found the All water route to asia

Vasco da Gama

400
This Portuguese explorer, who sailed for Spain, led the first crew to circumnavigate the world in 1519
Ferdinand Magellan
400
He explored the St. Lawrence river in 1534, looking for a water route to Asia, and called the land Canada
Jacques Cartier
400
He was the first European explorer to come to Canada in 1497. He thought he had reached Asia, but he had discovered Newfoundland.
John Cabot
500

Name two inventions that made exploration possible & explain why

compass, astrolabe, Rudder, gunpowder (provided better weapons for defense), Triangular Sails, 

500
Name of the small, light ship with triangular sails created by the Portuguese for exploring
caravel
500

Spain explored and settled in which continent(s)

Central and South America

500

The French owned this state originally, and was a major trading/port city untill it was eventually purchased by the Americans

New Orleans,Louisiana 

500
The Spanish word for a large fleet of ships (which England defeated in 1588, shifting the balance of power away from Spain)
armada