Why
Why were Europeans eager to sail the seas far from home?
What is less expensive access to the riches of the Far East
What was the first European nation to launch explorers on the high seas, and under what resourceful and energetic King?
What is Portugal under Henry the Navigator
What was the first European Nation to reach India?
What is Portugal
Who is Vasco de Balboa
This new instrument allowed sailors of this period to know their latitude using the stars
What is the astrolabe
What are pepper, cinnamon, cotton, silk, cloves, tea, porcelain, perfume, rubies, and saphires.
Why did several sailors sail for the Kings of countries other than their birth country, sometimes offering to serve several Kings before succeeding?
Which European nation was the first to reach the New World?
Name the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe?
Who is Ferdinand Magellan
Henry Hudson and other explorers of the waters of modern Canada were seeking what?
What is a Northwest Passage
Why did Columbus sail west if he was trying to get to the Far East, viewed from Europe?
What is that the Europeans knew the world was round and thought there was only ocean between Europe and India and China.
What new type of vessel made open seas exploration possible?
What is the caravel
During the Age of Exploration, meaning excluding the Vikings, what European nation was the first to reach North America, the new found land.
What is England
Who was Bartolemeu Diaz
La Salle claimed the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys for France. Why was this important to the French colony of New France?
What is it gave them year round access to trade with Europe, which was necessary because the waters of the St. Lawrence freeze in the winter.
Why were the great Italian city states such as Genoa and Venice uninterested in such exploration, even though Italy produced great mariners who sailed for other kings?
What is that they were getting rich under the existing system where all trade from the Far East came to Europe through the Mediterranean Sea.
The new vessel was much larger than earlier ships. Why was this important for long-range voyages?
What is these ships could carry enough food and water to stay at sea for months at at time, when they were either not near any shore or the people on the shores were hostile.
What nation explored the St. Lawrence Seaway, claiming the land that is modern day Canada?
What is France
Name the first explorer to reach India
Who was Vasco de Gama
This was the earliest Joint Stock company of this era, focused initially on trade with India. Eventually it came to have its own army and run colonies itself!
What was the English East India Company
In addition to treasure, and military conquest, what strong motivation did the nations of Europe have for colonization?
What is spreading Christianity, in order to "civilize" these peoples and in part to contain and counter the threat of Islam.
This invention was a key part of the magic of the new vessel, allowing these ships to sail very close to the wind.
This nation claimed a vast and lucrative colonial empire in the East Indies, but also founded the colony that today is the state of New York.
What is the Netherlands
This explorer's name is on both a river and a large bay in the New World, giving the Netherlands a claim to the colony of New Netherlands.
Who was Henry Hudson
This was one of the earliest Joint Stock companies in the world, and was crucial to the colonial empire of the Netherlands.
What was the Dutch East India company