Explorers
European governments during the Age of Exploration believed that this natural resource would make a country strong
What is gold and silver
They type of ship used by explorers to cross the Atlantic Ocean
What is the caravel
The names of the king and queen who funded Columbus' trip to the New World
Who was King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
This Christian Empire fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453
What is the Byzantine Empire
The Chinese explorer expanded China's trade routes and trade with Africa
Who was Zheng He
These are goods brought in from other countries
What is an import
The device that uses magnetic force to determine directions North, South, East and West
What is the compass
The exchange of plants, animals, humans, bateria and technology from the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World (the Americas)
What is Columbian Exchange
This term used to refer to Spanish and Portuguese colonizers who explored, traded with and colonized parts of the Americas, Africa, Oceania and Asia during the Age of Discovery.
What is a Conquistador
The name of the 2 countries that most explorers left from during the Age of Exploration
What is Spain and Portugal
These are goods or services from a domestic country sold to another country
What is an export
The device that allows one to determine their latitude and time of day by sighting a star
What is the astrolabe
Enslaved person from Africa brought to the new world
What is the transatlantic slave trade
This was the Aztec capital in the interior of Mexico
What is Tenochtitlan
The Renaissance thinker who used his wealth to fund expeditions fro Portugal along the western coast of Africa but never went on a voyage himself
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator
This occurs when a country's exports exceed the value of its imports
What is a favorable balance of trade
This was invented in China and used by the Ottoman Empire in cannons and long barrelled muskets
What is gunpowder or firearms
A deadly disease that killed millions of Native Americans but that most Europeans were immune to
What is smallpox
A Native American civilization in the Andes Mountains that built Machu Picchu
What is the Inca Empire
The name of the 2 explorers who conquered the Inca and Aztecs
Who were Hernando Cortes and Francisco Pizarro
an economic policy that absolute monarchs followed during the Age of Exploration
What is mercantilism
These detailed charts [maps] provided navigators with valuable information like the shape of coastlines, distance between ports, and compass bearings.
What is portolani
The document that the Pope created to divide new lands between Spain and Portugal
What is The Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494
A process by which one country increases its power by taking control of a weaker country in another part of the world
What is imperialism