Causes of the Age of Exploration
One of the main things the explorers wanted to find. There was even a mythical city in the New World said to be made entirely of this.
Gold
Killed close to 90% of Native Americans
Disease/smallpox
An Italian explorer for Spain who searched for a shorter route to Asia and accidentally ended up in the Americas.
Christopher Columbus
Which two countries led the "Age of Exploration"?
Portugal and Spain
Name just one of Christopher Columbus's ships.
Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria
The first European country to make it to the New World.
What is Spain?
The Spanish name given to a Spanish explorer/conqueror who searched for wealth in the Americas
Conquistadors
A Portuguese man who set up a school for navigation and provided funds to mapmakers and explorers.
Prince Henry the Navigator
Where Columbus believed he had landed.
India
What is the national animal of Mauritius (and is also extinct)?
The dodo bird
Explorers wanted to spread this to Native Americans. If they refused to convert, they could be killed.
What is Christianity?
Word for sailing around the world.
circumnavigate
This explorer conquered the Aztecs.
Hernan Cortes
Largest Native American Empire of the Meso-American societies. Located in South America through the Andes Mountains.
The Incan Empire?
What were the last two states to join the United States in 1959?
Alaska and Hawaii
Looking for fame and wanting things named after you. Power for your country. One of the 3Gs
What is Glory?
The three-legged route that forcibly brought millions of enslaved Africans to the Americas. It flowed to and from three general areas on either side of the Atlantic Ocean. The three areas were Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
The Triangular Trade Route or Atlantic Slave Trade?
An Italian explorer who realized Columbus did not reach India, but a new land. Two continents are named after him today.
Amerigo Vespucci
An English explorer who has a river in New York and a large bay in Canada named after him. His crew didn't like him very much though.
Who is Hudson?
What is my favorite TV show?
Game of Thrones
Name 3 European countries that competed to secure a sea route to America
What is Portugal, Spain, France, England, Holland (The Netherlands)
An exchange of plants, animals, ideas and diseases between the Old World and New World
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This European explorer sailed from the West towards South America, touched down in Africa and ended also in Asia. The first to sail around the world.
Ferdinand Magellan
What is the southernmost point of Africa, discovered by Bartolomeu Dias, called?
Cape of Good Hope
What is Ms. Leach's favorite dinosaur?
Elasmosaurus