Explorers
The discoverer of North America.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The action of selling things to other countries.
What is exporting?
The continent that the Portuguese first explored.
What is Africa?
The action of putting money into a project.
What is investing?
The first to circumnavigate the world.
Who is Fernando Magellan?
The action of buying things from other countries.
What is importing?
The two places in which mercantilism encouraged Europeans to set up trading posts and colonies.
What are Asia and North America?
The commodity that gave rise to the slave trade in the Americas.
What is sugar?
The discoverer of Newfoundland and Canada.
Who is John Cabot?
A settlement of people living in a new territory controlled by the homeland.
What is a colony?
The thing that happened to millions of Native Americans after Europeans arrived in the Americas.
What is they were killed by European diseases?
The name of the process of peasants being paid to produce products such as wool.
What is cottage industry?
The discoverer of a route to India around Africa.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
The buying and selling of goods in large amounts over long distances.
What is commerce?
The North American food crops that became popular in Europe.
The demand made by Spain that led to England and Spain going to war in the 1560's.
What is that the Dutch remain Catholic?
The discoverer of the St. Lawrence River.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
The idea that a country gains power by building up a supply of gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
The two inventions by the Arabs and the Chinese that helped make European exploration possible.
What are the astrolabe and compass?
The two men whose works were studied by Europeans to learn the geography of the known world.
Who are Ptolemy and al-Idrisi?