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What did Marco Polo do to inspire exploration?
He wrote a book based on his travels in Asia.
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.
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.
Which European country was the "pioneer" of exploration, and which monarch can be credited with helping begin it?
Portugal, Prince Henry (the Navigator)
Who discovered a sea route to the Indian Ocean by finding the Cape of Good Hope?
Bartolomeu Dias
Who followed in Bartolomeu Dias's footsteps by sailing around the southern tip of Africa, but went on even further, to explore the eastern coast of Africa?
Vasco da Gama
Pedro Alvares Cabral wanted to sail to India, but he sailed far west. Where did he make landfall first?
Brazil
Who thought he had circumnavigated the globe by sailing west, but had really only made it as far west as the Bahamas.
Christopher Columbus
Why did Christopher Columbus call the Taino people "Indians"?
He thought he had sailed all the way to the archipelago Europeans called the "Indies."
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.
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.
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.
Which explorer was the first to lead an expedition that circumnavigated the globe, by sailing through some narrow straits in the southern tip of South America?
Ferdinand Magellan
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!
True or False: Jamestown (Virginia) was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
True!
