European Exploration

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European Exploration

Last updated over 4 years ago

40 questions

1

Why did European kings initially fund voages of Exploration?

4

1

How was the school of navigation helpful in exploration?

1

Create or find a meme showing the decline of the Portuguese empire.

1

How did the new route to the Indian Ocean effect trade?

1

What is a cash crop?

1

Think back to the history of slavery assignment. Describe the life of slaves on a sugar plantation.

2

1

Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand financed voyages for da Gama.

1

2

0

Would you have given Magellan credit for circumnavigating the world?

1

Why did Aztec rivals make alliances with the Spanish?

7

1

Historians are not exactly sure of all the places that de Soto travelled to. Why do you think they don't know for sure?

2

5

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!

1

Why were peninsulares the only ones allowed to have power?

1

Why would Creoles resent this colonial system?

1

What is the difference between Mestizos and Mulattos?

1

Compare the treatment of native Americans by the Spanish to the treatment of people conquered by the Chinese. (Give details)

1

What did Bartolome de las Casas want to change in the colonies?

1

How were the Dutch and the Portuguese empires similar?

1

How was New Amsterdam's culture unique in this historical period?

1

The Dutch East India Company's primary focus was

1

Which man was an English explorer in the New World?

1

2

According to the map what was France's two North American colonies called?

1

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Canada		Fur trade
Lousiana		plantation agriculture and slave trade
Jacques Cartier

1

How was the school of navigation helpful in exploration?

1

Create or find a meme showing the decline of the Portuguese empire.

1

Which direction did the Portuguese sail to find a direct route to the Indian Ocean?

1

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Bartolomeu Dias		first to reach the southern tip of Africa
Vasco da Gama		first to sail around Africa to India and back

1

Who controlled trade on the Indian Ocean before the Portuguese took over?

1

How did the new route to the Indian Ocean effect trade?

1

Who lost power due to the new trade routes?

1

What is a cash crop?

1

Think back to the history of slavery assignment. Describe the life of slaves on a sugar plantation.

2

What do Spain and Portugal have in common?

1

Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand financed voyages for da Gama.

1

Why did Spain want to convert natives to Catholicism?

0

Would you have given Magellan credit for circumnavigating the world?

1

What does circumnavigate mean?

1

Why did Aztec rivals make alliances with the Spanish?

7

Draggable item		Corresponding Item

1

Historians are not exactly sure of all the places that de Soto travelled to. Why do you think they don't know for sure?

2

The Isthmus of Panama connects which two major bodies of water?

5

More Explorers (includes previous units)

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Ibn Batutta		explored North America from Florida to SC, over to Mississippi
Zheng He

5

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!

1

Why were peninsulares the only ones allowed to have power?

1

Why would Creoles resent this colonial system?

1

What is the difference between Mestizos and Mulattos?

1

Compare the treatment of native Americans by the Spanish to the treatment of people conquered by the Chinese. (Give details)

1

What did Bartolome de las Casas want to change in the colonies?

1

How were the Dutch and the Portuguese empires similar?

1

How was New Amsterdam's culture unique in this historical period?

1

The Dutch East India Company's primary focus was

1

What type of economic system was used by both the British and Dutch?

1

Who had the best navy in the world during the period of exploration and colonization?

1

Which man was an English explorer in the New World?

1

What was the first permanant English settlement in the New World?

2

According to the map what was France's two North American colonies called?

1

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Canada		Fur trade
Lousiana		plantation agriculture and slave trade
Jacques Cartier		French explorer founder of Montreal

Which empire controlled trade between Europe, Asia and Africa by the late 1400s?

Which technologies helped Europeans find success in exploration?

Which direction did the Portuguese sail to find a direct route to the Indian Ocean?

West across the Atlantic

South around South America

South around Africa 

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Bartolomeu Dias		first to reach the southern tip of Africa
Vasco da Gama		first to sail around Africa to India and back

Who controlled trade on the Indian Ocean before the Portuguese took over?

Who lost power due to the new trade routes?

What do Spain and Portugal have in common?

Why did Spain want to convert natives to Catholicism?

Where did Columbus think he landed when he found Hispaniola?

New World

Spain

China

Which way to Columbus sail to find India?

Which continents are named after Vespucci?

What does circumnavigate mean?

Match up the explorers we have talked about so far

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Vasco da Gama		conquered the Inca
Pizzaro		conquered the Aztecs
Columbus		discovered the New World trying to get to India
Amerigo Vespucci		map maker and explorer who realized Columbus had found a new land
Cortes		(Portugal) found a direct route to India by going south around the tip of Africa
Bartolomeu Dias		(Portugal) first to sail to the Cape of Good Hope (bottom tip of Africa)
Ferdinand Magellan		credited with being the first to circumnavigate the world

The Isthmus of Panama connects which two major bodies of water?

Atlantic Ocean 

Pacific Ocean 

Caribbean Sea

Indian Ocean 

More Explorers (includes previous units)

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Ibn Batutta		explored North America from Florida to SC, over to Mississippi
Zheng He		Chinese explorer who sailed the Indian Ocean to Africa
Marco Polo		Italian who went to China, but no one believed his stories of how awesome China was
Vasco Nunez de Balboa		Muslim explorer who also went to China, everyone believed his book
Hernando de Soto		First European to cross the Isthmus of Panama

They both were large countries.

They both were too small to control large empires.

They were both on the Iberian peninsula.

It had religious tolerance and a variety of cultures.

It was only Catholic.

It did not allow fur trade.

Religion

Conquering land

Cultural diffusion

What type of economic system was used by both the British and Dutch?

Joint-stock companies (capitalism)

Communism

Socialism

Who had the best navy in the world during the period of exploration and colonization?

Christopher Columbus

Henry Hudson

Herndando Cortes

Ferdinand Magellan

What was the first permanant English settlement in the New World?

Mexico

Virginia

New France

Lousiana

French explorer founder of Montreal

Which technologies helped Europeans find success in exploration?

Astronomy

Compass

Caravel ship

Square sailes

triangular sails

better maps

Which continents are named after Vespucci?

Europe

North America

Africa

South America

Austrailia

Asia

Match up the explorers we have talked about so far 

Vasco da Gama

conquered the Inca

Pizzaro

conquered the Aztecs

Columbus 

discovered the New World trying to get to India

Amerigo Vespucci

map maker and explorer who realized Columbus had found a new land

Cortes

(Portugal) found a direct route to India by going south around the tip of Africa

Bartolomeu Dias

(Portugal) first to sail to the Cape of Good Hope (bottom tip of Africa)

Ferdinand Magellan

credited with being the first to circumnavigate the world

Chinese explorer who sailed the Indian Ocean to Africa

Marco Polo

Italian who went to China, but no one believed his stories of how awesome China was

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Muslim explorer who also went to China, everyone believed his book

Hernando de Soto

First European to cross the Isthmus of Panama