Motives and Obstacles to the Age of Exploration
Results of the Age of Exploration
Explorers in North America
Lands settled
African Kingdoms and the Slave Trade
100
What were the three major reasons for Europeans to explore during the Age of Exploration?
to find gold and riches, explore and claim new lands, and to spread Christianity. (Gold, God, Glory)
100
Which ocean did explorers cross to get to the "New World"?
Atlantic Ocean
100
Which letter shows the approximate location of the three great Kingdoms that arose in West Africa during the Middle Ages?
D
200
The first country to launch large-scale voyages of exploration.
Portugal
200
This explorer for Spain searched for a shorter route to Asia and accidentally ended in the Americas calling the Natives "Indians"
Christopher Columbus?
200
Which area(s) of North America did the English settle?
The east coast
200
Which European country focused most of its exploration on West Africa and navigating around the southern tip of Africa?
Portugal
300
This individual started a school for navigation and sponsored 50 voyages although he never explored himself.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
300
What happened to the Native population of North and South America as a result of the AOE?
Most died due to foreign diseases.
300
This individual found Quebec and made fur trading possible
A. Jacques Cartier
B. Samuel Champlain
C. Christopher Columbus
Samuel Champlain
300
Which area(s) of North America did the Dutch (Netherlands) settle?
The area that is now New York, New Jersey, and Delaware.
300
What were two key resources that turned Ghana, Mali, and Songai into major empires?
Salt and gold
400
Name three examples of technology used to increase sea exploration in the 1400's.
astrolabe, magnetic compass, maps, and caravels, setxant
400
What type of trade did Christopher Columbus spark that included the trade of ideas, animals, people, and diseases?
The Columbian Exhange
400
What year were enslaved people first brought to Jamestown?
1619
500
Name 3 European countries that competed to secure a sea route to Asia
Portugal, Spain, France, England, Italy, etc.
500
What animal was brought to North America as a result of the Columbian Exchange?
Horses!
500
Why did European countries have a high need for cheap labor, which drove them to buy enslaved people from Africa?
They needed people to farm the cash crop plantations in the Caribbean and the Americas.