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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.

What is Christopher Columbus

100

This was a big religious upheaval that eventually caused some to seek to settle in the New World for religious purposes.

What is the Reformation?

100

This European state was really the very first to begin the age of exploration

What is Portugal

100

This went from Europe to the new world and helped with human transportation among other things

What are horses

100

He was a very famous Chinese sailing admiral

Who is Zheng He

200
A Portuguese navigator, he commanded an expedition that was the first to travel across the world (1480-1521)
What is Ferdinand Magellan
200

He was an Italian explorer who first proved that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern borders, unlike what Columbus thought

What is Amerigo Vespucci

200

What were the three goals that explorers tried to accomplish when setting out to explore? This was also known as the "3 G's"

What is .... 1. Glory (Fame and developing strong reputation) 2 Gold (trade routes to Asia and to become wealthy) 3. God (to spread Christianity)

200

This was the back-and-forth of foods/livestock/other things between the New World and Europe

What is the Columbian Exchange

200

These were the two major Chinese dynasites we studied, in the correct chronological order

What are the Ming, then the Qing

300

a Portuguese explorer, soldier and prince. Although he rarely participated in explorations, he 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)

300

This was a period in Japanese history that really changed them from feudal states to the desire for a unified empire

What is the "Warring States" period

300

Why did Columbus call the people he had encountered Indians?

What is he thought he reached the East Indies (India area)

300

Franciso Coronado "found" this region for Spain

What is The North American Southwest

300

This famous daimyo was one of the first to begin the drive to unify Japan, but ultimately committed Seppuku

Who is Oda Nobunaga

400
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
400
a Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.
What is Hernando Cortes
400

The triangular trade's 3 major landing points were these

What is Europe /  Africa /  New World

400

He "found" New York harbor

Who is Giovanni de Verrazano

400

He was the first grand unifier/emperor of Japan

Who is Tokugawa Ieyasu
500
He was the first to "find" Brazil for Portugal.

Who is Pedro Cabral

500

This was a Spanish term for a granting of land in the New World that eventually equated to slavery

what is Encomienda

500

Spanish explorer and conquistador, he discovered the Pacific Ocean,  

Who is Francisco de Nunez Balboa

500
After the Pope settled a territory dispute with Portugal and Spain in 1494, he had to do it again with these same two states 35 years later, This was

What is.... The Treaty of Saragossa!

500

Why would certain Native American groups (like the Mayans) would help Hernando Cortes? And this was the name of the one we studied

What is....most other Native American tribes disliked the Aztecs that Cortes was trying to conquer as the Aztecs ruled the land of what is today Mexico and would have constant conflicts with the Mayans.

What is Tlaxcalan