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European Exploration
Review 7-1.1; European Exploration
Question | Answer |
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Who were the major nations involved in European exploration during the 1600s-1700s? | Spain, Portugal, France, Netherlands, & England |
What was the line of demarcation? | a line separating the "new world" between Spain and Portugal |
Why do people in Brazil speak Portuguese? | Brazil was conquered by Portugal |
Why do people in most of South America speak Spanish? | most of South America was conquered by Spain |
Which European country was the first to sail to the Americas and establish permanent settlements? | Spain |
Who was Fedinand Magellan? | Explorer who sailed for Portugal; first to circumnavigate the globe |
What is circumnavigation? | To travel around the world by sea |
Christopher Columbus was: | Explorer who sailed for Spain; sailed to the Americas |
Why were Europeans forced to explore by sea? | The Silk Road was being blocked and made more dangerous by the Ottoman Turks; Europeans wanted to find a new route to Asia |
France and the Netherlands explored: | Northeast America and Canada |
Spain explored: | the Americas (central and south) |
Portugal explored: | the coast of Africa, South Africa, and some of South America |
England explored | North America |