Explorers
Economics
Technology
Columbus
Vocabulary
100
The first explorer to reach India.
Who is Vasco da Gama
100

European governments during the Age of Exploration believed that this natural resource would make a country strong

What is gold and silver

100

They type of ship used by explorers to cross the Atlantic Ocean

What is the caravel

100

The names of the king and queen who funded Columbus' trip to the New World

Who was King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella 

100

This Christian Empire fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453

What is the Byzantine Empire

200

The Chinese explorer expanded China's trade routes and trade with Africa 

Who was Zheng He

200

These are goods brought in from other countries

What is an import 

200

The device that uses magnetic force to determine directions North, South, East and West 

What is the compass

200

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

200

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 

300

The name of the 2 countries that most explorers left from during the Age of Exploration

What is Spain and Portugal 

300

These are goods or services from a domestic country sold to another country 

What is an export

300

The device that allows one to determine their latitude and time of day by sighting a star 

What is the astrolabe

300

Enslaved person from Africa brought to the new world 

What is the transatlantic slave trade 

300

This was the Aztec capital in the interior of Mexico

What is Tenochtitlan 

400

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 

400

This occurs when a country's exports exceed the value of its imports

What is a favorable balance of trade 

400

This was invented in China and used by the Ottoman Empire in cannons and long barrelled muskets 

What is gunpowder or firearms

400

A deadly disease that killed millions of Native Americans but that most Europeans were immune to

What is smallpox

400

A Native American civilization in the Andes Mountains that built Machu Picchu 

What is the Inca Empire

500

The name of the 2 explorers who conquered the Inca and Aztecs 

Who were Hernando Cortes and Francisco Pizarro

500

an economic policy that absolute monarchs followed during the Age of Exploration

What is mercantilism 

500

These detailed charts [maps] provided navigators with valuable information like the shape of coastlines, distance between ports, and compass bearings.

What is portolani 

500

The document that the Pope created to divide new lands between Spain and Portugal 

What is The Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494

500

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