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Is a large farm requiring many workers.
What is a plantation?
100
He was the Italian who discovered the New World for Spain in 1492.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
100
He stimulated European interest in China by writing a book that described the riches of this land in 1298.
Who was Marco Polo?
100
The reason why Asian goods were so valuable in Europe.
What is they were not easy to get?
100
The trade routes across Africa led to the growth of these three large trading empires in West Africa.
What were Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
200
Is a settlement in distant lands that is governed by another country.
What is a colony?
200
He sailed around southern Africa into the Indian Ocean for Portugal in 1487-1488.
Who is was Bartolomeu Dias?
200
He was the sailor from Portugal who was the first to establish an all-water rout to Asia in 1498.
Who was Vasco da Gama?
200
One reason Europeans wanted to find a sea route to Asia.
What is the land routes were long and difficult? or Who control the Mediterranean Sea route between East and West. (Venice and Genoa, Italy.
200
This event to take back the Holy Land from the Muslims began in 1095.
What were the Crusades?
300
Is the buying and selling of goods
What is commerce?
300
The Viking who led the first Europeans to the New World in 1000 A.D.
Who was Leif Ericson?
300
He was the Spaniard who crossed the Isthmus of Panama and saw the Pacific Ocean.
Who was Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
300
Christopher Columbus decided to sail west for this reason.
What is to find a water route to Asia?
300
The date Columbus discovered the New World.
What is October 12, 1492?
400
Is to control the direction of a boat or ship.
What is navigate?
400
He discovered Brazil for Portugal in 1500.
Who was Pedro Cabral?
400
He led the first expedition to sail around the world in 1519-1522 for Spain.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
400
The causes for new nations of Europe to support overseas exploration.
What is to increase their wealth and power through trade and what is competition?
400
The number of voyages of Columbus to the New World.
What are four?
500
Is a journey made for a specific purpose.
What is an expedition?
500
He gave England its claim to the New World by exploring present-day Newfoundland, Canada in 1497.
Who was John Cabot?
500
He gave France its claim to the North America in 1524 by exploring present-day South Carolina, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, Canada.
Who was Giovanni da Verrazano?
500
The three ships of Columbus.
What were the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
500
The continents of North and South America are named for this explorer.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?