Vocabulary
Explorers
Countries & Routes
True or False
Big Ideas
100

What is the act of traveling to search for new lands, ideas, or things?

Exploration

100

Who made the first successful all-water route from Europe to India

a- Vasco da Gama

b- Christopher Columbus

c- Henry Hudson  

Vasco da Gama

100

Which country sent Cortés and Balboa to the Americas?

Spain

100

True or False: The compass was used during the Age of Exploration.

True

100

Name one positive effect of European Exploration.

  • New trade routes
  • Sharing foods/goods
  • More knowledge of the world
  • Etc 
200

What is a Spanish explorer and conqueror called?

conquistador

200

Who helped the Netherlands claim land around New York, New Jersey & Conneticuit?

a- Vasco Núñez de Balboa? 

b- Christopher Columbus

c- Hernan Cortes

d- Henry Hudson  

Henry Hudson 

200

Which trade route closing caused Europeans to search for new routes to Asia?

the Silk Road

200

True or False: Steam engines were used during the Age of Exploration.


False- Sail boats like the caravel 

200

Name one negative effect of European Exploration.


  • Slavery
  • Disease
  • Native Americans lost land
  • etc
300

What is a territory controlled by a stronger country called?

colony

300

What English colony did Sir Walter Raleigh name the  after the Queen of England?


Virginia 

300

What did Europeans call the Americas before they had that name?


The new World

300

True or False: Europeans used the phrase “God, Good, and Glory.”


False- God, Gold & Glory

300

What were the “3 Gs” of exploration?


God, Gold, and Glory

400

What was the trading route, discovered by christopher Columbus, of goods between Europe, Africa, and the Americas called?

the Columbian Exchange

400

Which explorer was sent by Spain and conquered the Aztecs?

a- Vasco Núñez de Balboa? 

b- Christopher Columbus

c- Hernan Cortes

d- Henry Hudson  


Hernán Cortés

400

What was the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic called?


The Middle Passage

400

True or False: John Cabot was a French explorer.


False- English 

400

Name one tool explorers used to navigate.


  • Compass
  • Astrolabe
  • Caravel
500

What route were Europeans searching for through the Arctic Ocean to get to Asia?


the Northwest Passage

500

Which explorer explored the Pacific Ocean for Spain?

a- Vasco Núñez de Balboa? 

b- Christopher Columbus

c- Henry Hudson  

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

500

Which country explored and traded in India first using an all-water route?


Portugal

500

True or False: The Columbian Exchange only had positive effects.

False- Slavery, mistreatment of millions of indigenous peoples, stealing land, wars, spread of disease, etc 

500

Why did Europeans want a faster route to Asia?


  • To trade for spices and goods
  • To make money
  • To avoid difficult land routes