Explorers
Name the explorer that sailed into the Bahama Islands in 1492 on three ships while thinking he landed on the shores of the country of India.
Who is Christopher Columbus
What was the agreement made between Spain and Portugal in 1494 that allowed Spain all new lands in the west of a certain line of latitude, and Portugal could claim all new lands east of the line.
What is Treaty of Tordesillas?
This is where Columbus first stepped foot in the New World?
What are the Bahamas?
Henry Hudson and John Cabot among many others sought this sea route through North America.
What is the Northwest Passage
How did the Vikings travel and what lands did they find?
What is...What is.....the Vikings traveled by boat as being fierce seafarers and discovered lands today known as the country of Canada (Nova Scotia/Newfoundland)
A Portuguese navigator, he commanded a Spanish expedition that was the first to travel across the world (1519-1522) (although he died along the way)
What is Ferdinand Magellan
Was an Italian explorer who sailed for Spain and first proved that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia, but a New World
Who is Amerigo Vespucci
This group caused Constantinople to no longer be a city that was open to European trade starting in 1453.
Who are the Ottoman Turks
This aspect of the Columbian Exchange is considered to have made possible the European conquest and colonization of the Americas
What is disease?
Which of these European dishes would have been impossible to make in Europe without the Columbian Exchange? a. pork sausage and mustard b. tomato sauce and pasta c. bread and olive oil d. roasted lamb
What is B. Tomato and Pasta Sauce (Tomatoes came from the New World)
a Portuguese monarch's son Although who rarely participated in explorations, but sent many expeditions from Portugal to the west coast of Africa, and was responsible for Portugal’s influence in the Great Age of Exploration. His school of navigation resulted in a breakthrough for Portuguese navigation.
What is Prince Henry (Henry the Navigator)
The period of time known for rediscovery of art and learning including exploration of new continents, the decline of feudalism, the invention of the mariner's compass, and the invention or application of such potentially powerful innovations as paper and the printing press.
What is the Renaissance
What system did the Spanish use for labor on their haciendas in the New World?
What is the Encomienda System ?
Tobacco, Corn, potatoes, etc. came from where?
The New World
The Explorer who was the first to spot the Pacific Ocean
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
Who was the first person to sail directly from Europe to India? His success in doing so proved to be one of the more instrumental moments in the history of navigation. He subsequently made two other voyages to India, and was appointed as Portuguese viceroy in India in 1524.
What is Vasco da Gama
a Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.
What is Hernando Cortes
This was the focus of French exploration in the New World
What is the fur trade?
Coffee, domesticated animals, and wheat came from where?
What is...the Old World (Europe, Asia, Africa)?
What is the Protestant Reformation?
The first European to sail to North America for England, and claimed Canada in 1497
Who is John Cabot?
The use of African slaves and the spread of diseases to the New World came about as a result of what cultural exchange?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Spanish explorer and conquistador, he helped Vasco Núñez de Balboa discover the Pacific Ocean, and after conquering Peru and the Incas, founded its capital city, Lima.
What is Francisco Pizarro
Explain two positive effects of the Columbian Exchange on the entire world.
What is.....New ideas and products being exchanged between various parts of the world, etc. More foods, more land farmed, places for Europeans to go to escape religious conflicts, etc.
Led the first European expedition around the Cape of Good Hope
Who is Bartolomeo Diaz?