European Explorers
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17.2
17.3
Tools of Exploration
100

The explorer to discover a route to India around Africa.

Who was Vasco da Gama?

100

The United States buying Alaska from Russia was an act of this.

What is imperialism?

100

The exchange of plants and animals between the New World and the Old World.

What is the Columbian Exchange?

100

When Spanish landowners force Native Americans to pay taxes and provide labor, granted by the Spain.

What is the encomienda?

100

Replaced the astrolabe and measures latitude and longitude.

What is a sextant?

200

A Spanish conqueror of the Americas.

Who are conquistadors?

200

The three key motives for European Expansion.

What are Gold, Glory, and God?

200

The Dutch were successful in Asian trade because of...

What is slavery?

200

These two practices of resource extraction, brought influxes of money into Spain and Portugal from Latin America. 

What are farming and mining?

200

Portuguese ship, with two types of sails, that made traveling long distances easier.

What is a caravel?

300

The first recorded man to visit China and serve in the Kublai Khans court.

Who is Marco Polo?

300

Name for a settlement controlled by its parent country.

What is a colony?

300

Economic thought in the 17th century, depending on large supplies of gold and silver.

What is mercantilism?

300

Spanish and Portuguese who held government positions and temporarily resided in Latin America.

What is peninsulares?

300

Art and science of map making that impacted navigation.  

What is cartography?

400

An Italian man who sailed to the Americas under the rule of the Spanish.

Christopher Columbus

400

Pizzaro, Cortes, and other conquistadors were able to take over American empires, such as the Aztecs and the Incas because of....

What is weaponry?

400

The forced voyage of enslaved Africans through the triangular trade system. 

What is the Middle Passage?

400

Permission granted to administrators in Peru to draft indigenous labor in mines.

What is the mita?

400

Instrument that always points to true North.

What is a compass?

500

He set up a school of navigation.

Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?

500

Boundary line from north to south through the Atlantic, splitting who could claim which unexplored territories.

What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?

500

System of enslavement that Europeans used after wiping out populations of indigenous people.

What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?

500

Social classes in Latin America were based on...

What is status?

500

Allowed European explorers to take advantage of indigenous people, originating from China.

What is gun powder?