Exploration Sets Sail
monopoly
Who made Portugal a leader in exploration by sponsoring trips and encouraging the use of new technology?
Henry the Navigator
True or False? Columbus thought the world was flat, and knew it was very large.
False. Columbus knew it was round, but thought it smaller than it is.
Spanish or English? The Encomienda system
Spanish
What was the primary good traded by New France?
Furs. (Beaver furs, especially.)
What city-state had the European Monopoly on spices?
Venice
Who discovered a route from Europe around Africa to the Indian Ocean?
Bartholemeu Dias
(30 seconds) Who (by name and country) sponsored Columbus' first journey?
Settlers paid their own way
English
What is the name of a permanent Dutch Settlement important for merchants sailing to the Indies?
Cape Town
Who inspired exploration through his travel journals?
Who established trade routes in Africa?
What was Columbus trying to accomplish?
He was trying to sail to the East Indies.
circumnavigation was credited to...England or Spain?
Spain (via Magellan)
The Dutch merchants became primary traders of what?
Spices!
1 minute question: Give ONLY 3 navigational tools that made traveling on the high seas possible.
astrolabe
sextant
compass
Who accidentally discovered Brazil?
Pedro Alvares Cabral
What did he call the people he met?
Indians
Colonies primarily grew tobacco for England or Spain?
England
In the triangular trade route, what was shipped from Europe to Africa?
Manufactured goods.
(1 minute question) Give ONLY 3 reasons for exploration.
Any combination of three of these: spices, spreading Christianity, adventure OR curiosity, Marco Polo, land, glory, wealth
(1 minute question) Name ONLY three of the primary goods the Portuguese traded.
ivory, iron, ore, gold, salt and slaves
What was the friendly tribe he first encountered that he thought could become nice Christians?
The Taino people
Both.
(1-minute question) What was the route that slaves took from Africa to the Americas?
Africa-Bahamas/West Indies-Americas