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The earliest recorded European explorer to travel through Asia

Who is Marco Polo?

100

Name for the Dutch colony in the Americas

What is New Netherlands?

100

How did the caravel, compass, and astrolabe help European nations dominate the New World?

What is helped Europeans easily navigate the oceans?

100
His crew was the first to circumnavigate the earth
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
100
Three reasons for European exploration
What is God, Glory, and Gold?
200

Led a school of Portuguese sailors exploring the coast of Africa

Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?

200

Explored the New England coastline for England

Who is John Cabot?

200

Besides weapons, why were the Europeans able to conquer the natives so easily?

What is the spread of diseases?

200
Term for the slave journey from Africa to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
200
New form of ship that carried heavier cargo and sailed longer distances
What is the caravel?
300

Portuguese explorer who rounded the southern tip of Africa

Who is Bartholmew Dias?

300
Queen of Spain who financed Christopher Columbus
Who is Queen Isabella?
300
Economic term for a mother country using resources from colonies to stockpile gold and silver
What is mercantilism?
300
Two locations for sugarcane plantations in the Americas
What is the coastal islands of Brazil and the Caribbean
300
Navigation instrument used to determine latitude based upon the position of the sun on the horizon
What is the astrolabe?
400

Portuguese explorer who became the first to sail for India and return with spices

Who is Vasco de Gama?

400

Treaty that divided the Atlantic world between Spain and Portugal

What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?

400

Name 3 goods did Europeans exchange with African tribes for captured slaves?

What are raw materials, goods, rum, sugar, tobacco, cotton, weapons and cloth?

400

Chinese explorer who made seven voyages in the 1400s

Who is Zheng He?

400

What device helped sailors find direction by using a magnetized needle which always pointed north?

What is the compass?

500

Circumnavigated the globe?

Who is Ferdinand Magellan? 

500

How did technological advancements in Europe, such as gunpowder, impact the native people in areas of European exploration?

Who is domination?

500

How did the expansion of European empires impact the cultures of the New World?

It spread new economic and religious ideas to the New World.

500
Island under the control of the Dutch as they took over the spice trade in southeast Asia
What is Java?
500

Another name for the Spice Islands

What is the Moluccas?