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European Exploration

By Amy Gilstrap
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40 Questions
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Which empire controlled trade between Europe, Asia and Africa by the late 1400s?
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Why did European kings initially fund voages of Exploration?
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Which technologies helped Europeans find success in exploration?
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How was the school of navigation helpful in exploration?
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Create or find a meme showing the decline of the Portuguese empire.
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Which direction did the Portuguese sail to find a direct route to the Indian Ocean?
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first to reach the southern tip of Africa
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first to sail around Africa to India and back
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Who controlled trade on the Indian Ocean before the Portuguese took over?
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How did the new route to the Indian Ocean effect trade?
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Who lost power due to the new trade routes?
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What is a cash crop?
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Think back to the history of slavery assignment. Describe the life of slaves on a sugar plantation.
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What do Spain and Portugal have in common?
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Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand financed voyages for da Gama.
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Why did Spain want to convert natives to Catholicism?
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Where did Columbus think he landed when he found Hispaniola?
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Which way to Columbus sail to find India?
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Which continents are named after Vespucci?
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Would you have given Magellan credit for circumnavigating the world?
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What does circumnavigate mean?
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Why did Aztec rivals make alliances with the Spanish?
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Match up the explorers we have talked about so far
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conquered the Inca
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conquered the Aztecs
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discovered the New World trying to get to India
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map maker and explorer who realized Columbus had found a new land
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(Portugal) found a direct route to India by going south around the tip of Africa
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(Portugal) first to sail to the Cape of Good Hope (bottom tip of Africa)
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credited with being the first to circumnavigate the world
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Historians are not exactly sure of all the places that de Soto travelled to. Why do you think they don't know for sure?
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The Isthmus of Panama connects which two major bodies of water?
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More Explorers (includes previous units)
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explored North America from Florida to SC, over to Mississippi
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Chinese explorer who sailed the Indian Ocean to Africa
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Italian who went to China, but no one believed his stories of how awesome China was
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Muslim explorer who also went to China, everyone believed his book
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First European to cross the Isthmus of Panama
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Draw a picture of the Spanish spending the gold and silver they found in the Americas. Remember they used Natives for labor. Show that only the king and queen got to enjoy the riches. Label your picture!
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Why were peninsulares the only ones allowed to have power?
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Why would Creoles resent this colonial system?
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What is the difference between Mestizos and Mulattos?
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Compare the treatment of native Americans by the Spanish to the treatment of people conquered by the Chinese. (Give details)
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What did Bartolome de las Casas want to change in the colonies?
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How were the Dutch and the Portuguese empires similar?
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How was New Amsterdam's culture unique in this historical period?
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The Dutch East India Company's primary focus was
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What type of economic system was used by both the British and Dutch?
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Who had the best navy in the world during the period of exploration and colonization?
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Which man was an English explorer in the New World?
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What was the first permanant English settlement in the New World?
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According to the map what was France's two North American colonies called?
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Fur trade
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plantation agriculture and slave trade
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French explorer founder of Montreal