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Age of Exploration
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100
This Portuguese sailor was the first to sail from Portugal to India.
What is Vasco da Gama?
100
This was the royal family of Prussia.
What is Hohenzollern?
100
This is a powerful nation securing exclusive economic and cultural privileges in an underdeveloped region,
What is sphere of influence?
100
An area characterized by untapped natural resources, a primitive economy, weak government, and limited military power.
What is underdeveloped area?
200
The Portuguese settled in South America and formed this modern nation.
What is Brazil?
200
This was the royal family of France.
What is Bourbon?
200
In 1858, this nation took over direct rule of India
What is Great Britain?
200
This slogan said Europeans had a responsibility to improve the lives of the colonial peoples
What is White Man's Burden?
300
This was the trade of ideas and materials between the New World and Europe
What is Colombian Exchange?
300
This was the year Christian Spain drove the Moors (Muslims) from Spain.
What is 1492?
300
This man-made waterway created by the British in 1869 in Egypt allowed ships to pass from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.
What is Suez Canal?
300
This Scottish writer wrote the Welath of Nations.
What is Adam Smith?
400
This means to sail around the world.
What is Circumnavigate?
400
The Scottish family that obtained the throne of England in 1603 and produced the monarchs James I and Charles I.
What is Stuarts?
400
This revolt of Indian soldiers because of religious violations led to the independence of India.
What is Sepoy Mutiny?
400
This French leader controlled France during the bloody time period of the French Revolution called the Reign of Terror.
What is Robespierre?
500
This economic system controlled trade and colonization to increase power. It was the economic system of the Age of Exploration.
What is mercantilism?
500
Peter the Great wanted Russia to adopt this culture.
What is Western?
500
This nation had the largest empire in the world during the 19th Century. It is said the sun never sets on this empire.
What is Great Britain?
500
This was the slogan of the German Unification movement that said unify by force.
What is Blood and Iron?