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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 

100

a Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.

What is Hernando Cortes

100

Some of the effects of this were the spread of new foods, disease, and goods between the Old World and the New World

What is the Columbian Exchange

100

The Renaissance was a "rebirth" of what two civilizations

What is Greece and Rome

200
A Portuguese navigator, he commanded an expedition that was the first to travel across the world (1480-1521)
What is Ferdinand Magellan
200

A 16th century religious movement that questioned the pope's authority and was a cultural, intellectual and political upheaval that changed Catholic Europe and caused the establishment of protestant churches.

What is the Protestant Reformation

200

The leader of the Roman Catholic Church

Who is the Pope

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

Countries such as Italy and Spain remained largely this religion during the Reformation

What is Catholic

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 in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries and marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity.

What is the Renaissance

300

An Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance whose famous works include the Sistine Chapel 

Who is Michelangelo 

300

Explain the items and destinations of the 3 "legs" of triangular trade.

1. Tobacco, sugar, grown products to Europe

2. Tea, manufactured goods, etc. made from raw materials from the New World. 

 3. Slaves from Africa were sent to the "new world".

300

The ________ consisted of the creation of a European economy based on trade, which began in the 11th century and lasted until it was succeeded by the Industrial Revolution in the mid-18th century.

What is the Commercial Revolution

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

When this document was issued by Henry IV of France gave the french Protestants (also known as Huguenots) substantial religious freedoms.

What is the Edict of Nantes

400

A religious order of the Catholic Church that was created to reinforce Catholic doctrine and to spread Catholicism to the colonies

Who is the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)

400

This disease had a devastating effect on the Native populations in the Americas

What is smallpox

400

The age of Exploration negatively affected these two empires

What is the Aztec and Inca

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

A War that began in the German States as a Protestant rebellion against the Catholic Holy Roman Empire but grew into a continent-wide political conflict over the Balance of Power in Europe.

What is the Thirty Years War

500

Known for religious tolerance; made the Anglican Church the official church of England.


Who is Elizabeth I

500

Results from this policy led to the greater competition of markets in the Americas

What is Mercantilism

500

Peru and Mexico were two of the most important mining colonies of this empire during the Age of Exploration

What is the Spanish Empire