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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

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What wast the period of time called that officially began in the early 15th century and lasted until the 17th century. This period is thought of as a time when Europeans began exploring the world by sea in search of trading partners, new goods, and new trade routes. In addition, some explorers set sail to simply learn more about the world.
What is The Age of Exploration or known as The Age of Discovery.
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During the 1400s, how did many Europeans view the world as being?
What is flat
100
List three products that were e​xported ​to the “Old World”.
What is (answers will vary)
100
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)
200
A Portuguese navigator, he commanded an expedition that was the first to travel across the world (1480-1521)
What is Ferdinand Magellan
200
was an Italian explorer who first proved that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern borders
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

List three products that were imported into the "New World".

What is (answers will vary)

200

What was the cottage industry

a system for making goods in workers homes

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
The period of time known for discovery and exploration of new continents, the decline of the 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
300
Why did Columbus call the people he had encountered Indians?
What is he thought he reached the East Indies (India area)
300

Who benefited the least

Who are the Native Americans

300
What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?
What is divided the land in the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal
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
Explain the Triangular Trade, one of the effects of the Columbian Exchange.
What is 1. Tobacco, sugar, grown products to Europe 2. Tea, manufactured goods, etc. made from raw materials from the New World. These goods were sent to the colonies of Africa and eventually the colonies of the "new world". 3. Slaves from Africa were sent to the "new world".
400

What was the effect of corn

What is it fed livestock, producing larger, healthier animals. This resulted in more meat, leather, and wool. 

400

Entrepreneur

What is one who organizes, pays for, and takes on the risk of setting up a business

500

The explorer that helped establish New Amsterdam

Who is Henry Hudson

500
Explain two negative effects of the Columbian Exchange.
What is... 1. Use of African slaves 2. Spread of Diseases to the New World.
500
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
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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.
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Why would certain Native American groups (like the Mayans) would help Hernando Cortes?
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.