Explorers
This explorer was the first to circumnavigate the world, before dying in the Philippines in 1522 on the way back to Spain
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This country colonized the USA
Who is Great Britain?
This was the biggest country in terms of land area in 1500
What is the Ming Dynasty (China)?
This was the main goal of the Europeans explorations to the Indian Ocean
What is to control/facilitate trade?
This was the earliest known colony in the US
What is St. Augustine?
This explorer was the first to reach the Cape of Good Hope, he sailed for Portugal
Who is Bartolomew Diaz?
This country colonized India, with the help of a very famous joint-stock company
What is Great Britain?
This was what the empires were called that many European powers set up across the world except for Spain, who made a pact with Portugal to stay west of the Atlantic and stay away from trade in the Indian Ocean
What are trading-post empires?
This was what they originally called the land that Columbus discovered in 1492
What is the West Indies?
Name me the continents that were considered the New World, and the continents that were considered the Old World (Hint: not all continents will be used)
Old World- Europe, Asia, and Africa
New World- North America, South America, the Carribbean
This explorer was who they decided to name America after
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This country colonized the Philippines, and ruled for over 300 years before the US took over in 1898
This is what China (Ming Dynasty) did during the age of exploration did that set them back centuries in terms of production and being a world power
What is they became isolationist?
These were the 3 Gs used as motivation for European exploration in the 1500s
What is God, Gold, and Glory?
This British explorer was the first to map the Pacific and Southern Oceans, he even discovered Australia and New Zealand, but died in an encounter with Hawaiians in 1779
Who is Captain James Cook?
This Portuguese Navigator created a famous flight school in the 1400s that sponsored many journeys across West Africa
Who is Henry the Navigator?
This group of people colonized what is now known as Indonesia
Who are the Dutch?
This Russian leader crowned himself as the first Tsar of Russia during the age of exploration, and sponsored journeys across the Ural Mountains, spreading the Russian Empire to Siberia
Who is Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible)?
This is what the European explorers began to search for after Columbus’s discovery of the Americas, it was supposed to be a shortcut from Europe to Asia
What is the Northwest Passage?
This explorer conquered the Incan Empire after reading Hernan Cortes books to help him
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
This was the first explorer to sail to the Americas under the English flag in 1497
Who is John Cabot?
This country colonized what is now present day Delaware
What is Sweden?
This was the leader of the Aztec Empire when Cortes conquered it
Who is Montezuma II?
Explain the economic theory of Mercantilism, one of the main goals of the European Journeys
You export more than you import, and wealth was measured based on gold and silver possession
This French cartographer founded Quebec City, the first successful French settlement in America in the St. Lawrence River Valley
Who is Samuel De Champlain?