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.
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
Who discovered a sea route to the Indian Ocean by finding the Cape of Good Hope?
Bartolomeu Dias
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!
Which European country was the "pioneer" of exploration, and which monarch can be credited with helping begin it?
Portugal, Prince Henry (the Navigator)
Why did Christopher Columbus call the Taino people "Indians"?
He thought he had sailed all the way to the archipelago Europeans called the "Indies."
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.
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.
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
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: Jamestown (Virginia) was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
True!
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.
What did Marco Polo do to inspire exploration?
He wrote a book based on his travels in Asia.
Who claimed the area near Montreal, Canada for France? (Columbus, Cartier, or Hudson)
Cartier
Who thought he had circumnavigated the globe by sailing west, but had really only made it as far west as the Bahamas.
Christopher Columbus
What did Balboa "discover"?
The Pacific Ocean (He called it the "South Sea.")
What factors caused the transatlantic slave trade?
Growing sugar in plantations, need for cheap labor
What river did Marquette and Jolliet reach and explore for France?
the Mississippi River
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 coast did Giovanni da Verrazano sail up? Which coast did Vasco da Gama explored? (East coast of North America, or East coast of Africa?)
Verrazano: North America. da Gama: Africa.
Pedro Alvares Cabral wanted to sail to India, but he sailed far west. Where did he make landfall first?
Brazil
Which good from North America got France interested in building colonies?
beaver pelts/fur
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