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Unit 1
Exploration & Colonization
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was Prince Henry? | Leader of Portugal, known as the Navigator |
| What is an Astrolabe? | Technology that uses the stars and planets to tell the location of a ship |
| What is a compass? | Device that uses magnetism to show direction with a needle and a dial |
| What is a caravel? | Technology that allowed for greater speed and allowed the captain to steer the ship |
| What was the Age of Exploration? | Began in 1400s when countries sent explorers from Europe to the Americas to create colonies |
| What does exploration mean? | To travel to an unfamiliar area to learn more about it |
| What does colonization mean? | One country controls another for money |
| What is a continent? | One of the main land masses of the globe, (Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica). |
| 3 Reasons for Exploration & Colonization | Gold, Glory, God |
| What does Latitude measure? | north to south on the globe |
| What was the Columbian Exchange? | The exchange or trade of goods and other things such as diseases between the European explorers and the Native Americans in North and South America |
| Diseases brought over by Europeans that killed Native Americans were... | Small pox, measles, & influenza |
| What is a plantation? | A large farm for cotton, sugar, and tobacco that used slaves as workers. |
| What was the Triangle Trade? | Exchange of goods between Africa, the Americas and Europe. |
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