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100

Which Venetian explorer's account of his travels inspired future exploration?

Marco Polo

100

Where did Europeans want to do trade?

The Spice Islands, India, and China

100

Which area did Jacques Cartier claim for France?

Canada

100

John Smith founded the first lasting English colony in the New World--what was it?

Jamestown, VA

100

Which trade did the French master?

The fur trade

200

Who made landfall in the Bahamas in 1492?

Christopher Columbus

200

Bartholomeu Dias was the first European to reach whichg landmark?

The Cape of Good Hope

200

What was the first English colony in NA?

Roanoke Island

200

What did Henry Hudson accomplish?

Hudson Bay

200

Why did Columbus call the people he encountered in the Bahamas "Indians?"

He thought he was in India

300

Who explored the eastern coast of Africa?

Vasco da Gama

300

Where is the Strait of Magellan?

The southern tip of South America

300

Which country took over the spice trade after Portugal fell?

The Netherlands

300

Who provided leadership for Portugese exploration in the 1400s?

Prince Henry the Navigator

300
Which three instruments were vital to sea exploration?

A sextant, a magnetic compass, and an astrolobe

400

Who was the first man to circumnavigate the globe?

Ferdinand Magellan

400

Marquette and Jolliet were the first men to reach which body of water?

The Mississippi River

400
Pedro Alvares Cabral accidentally found what?

Brazil

400

Which explorer never landed in NA, sank Spanish ships, and died on an Indonesian island?

Ferdinand Magellan

400

What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?

It divided newly-found land between Portugal and Spain

500

Which two explorers reached the "Great Sea" and named it the Pacific Ocean?

Vasco Nunez de Balboa and Francisco Pizzaro

500

What was the Middle Passage?

The route slave ships took to bring slaves to NA and SA
500

Giovanni da Verrazano sailed up which coast?

The Atlantic coast of modern-day USA

500

What was the name of the Spanish missionary who tried to end the enslavement of the native people?

Las Casas

500

What was the name given to the system of land and labor grants that the Spaniards set up to encourage settlers in their newly conquered lands?

Encomiendas