The series of trade routes that connected China and Europe over 800 years ago
The Silk Road
Name of Portugal's ruler who created a school for navigation and encouraged exploration
Prince Henry the Navigator
France also claimed the _______River Valley in the new world.
Mississippi River Valley
True or False: England explored and claimed areas in North America, including parts of Canada and the Eastern Coast of North America.
True
Portugal was the first to explore _________
Africa
The Dutch established their trading colonies in mostly in _____ and one in current day US
Asia
Three reasons for exploration
god,gold,glory,guns
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
Spanish name for soldier conqueror
conquistador
The original name for New York
New Amsterdam
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)
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
Name two inventions that made exploration possible & explain why
compass, astrolabe, Rudder, gunpowder (provided better weapons for defense), Triangular Sails,
Spain explored and settled in which continent(s)
Central and South America
The French owned this state originally, and was a major trading/port city untill it was eventually purchased by the Americans
New Orleans,Louisiana