What did Prince Henry do to earn himself the name of "the Navigator"?
He gathered maps and navigational tools together in a school to train explorers, and he funded their studies and expeditions.
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Who claimed the area near Montreal, Canada for France? (Columbus, Cartier, or Hudson)
Cartier
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True or False: Sir Walter Raleigh organized the first English colony in North America, Roanoke.
True! But the colony wasn't successful. In fact, it mysteriously disappeared!
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Why did Christopher Columbus call the Taino people "Indians"?
He thought he had sailed all the way to the archipelago Europeans called the "Indies."
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What river did Marquette and Jolliet reach and explore for France?
the Mississippi River
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True or False: The encomienda system was one way the Spanish encouraged their people to settle in newly conquered lands, by promising them land and indigenous workers.
True.
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Pedro Alvares Cabral wanted to sail to India, but he sailed far west. Where did he make landfall first?
Brazil
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True or False: The caravel and lateen sails were newly invented tools that helped with navigation.
False: The caravel ship with lateen sails helped explorers sail on the open ocean, but the astrolabe, magnetic compass, and sextant were navigational tools.
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Describe who controlled the Spice Trade before and during the Age of European Exploration.
Before: Arab traders and Venetian merchants; during: Portugal, (with Spain's help later), and then the Netherlands
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True or False: The Encomienda System divided the newly discovered (or soon-to-be-discovered) land in the Western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal.
False: The Treaty of Tordesillas did.
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What factors caused the transatlantic slave trade?
Growing sugar in plantations, need for cheap labor
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Who was Bartolome de Las Casas, and what did he do?
He was a Spanish missionary who tried to stop the enslavement of indigenous people in the encomienda system.
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Who thought he had circumnavigated the globe by sailing west, but had really only made it as far west as the Bahamas.
