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Random Age of Exploration Questions
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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
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.
100
During the 1400s, how did some 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
Who was the first PERSON to "Discover" the North America?
Who is Leif Erickson
200
A Portuguese navigator, he commanded the Spanish 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. The Americas were named after him.
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
Name 2 causes of the Age of Exploration
What is blahdy blah
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
The name for route of slaves from Africa to the "New World".
What is the Middle Passage
300
The first "Age of Exploration" era European to step foot on continental North America?
Who is John Cabot
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
1. From Europe with finished goods. 2. Slaves from Africa were sent to the "new world". 3. From the Americas with raw materials
400
Tomato and Potato
What are New World Crops that become a part of Old World Culture
400
Under this economic system, colonies were expected to serve as a source for raw materials and a market for the mother countries.
What is mercantilism
500
The first European to sail around the tip of Africa, Dias opened the doors for seafaring trade with India.
What is Bartolomeu Dias
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
French explorer who helped France get involved in the fur trade in Canada.
Who is Samuel de Champlain
500
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.
500
Biological and ecological exchange that occurred after European arrival in the New World; peoples of Europe and Africa came to the Americas; animals, plants, and diseases moved between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Colombian Exchange