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Explorers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who started a school on navigation | Prince Henry |
| What was the Columbian Exchange | the exchange of goods and ideas between the Old World and the New World |
| What explorer inspired others to find a way to Asia? | Marco Polo |
| Who was the first European Explorer to sail west? | Christopher Columbus |
| How did Marco Polo inspire others to explore | buy telling of riches, silks, jewels, spices, and new ways of doing things |
| What was the name of the route Marco Polo took when he found the riches in Asia | The Silk Road |
| Why did explorers have to take a water route to Asia? | the Silk Road was blocked due to wars |
| When Columbus thought he had reached Asia, where did he actually land? | Bahamas/Hispanolia |
| Before Columbus who was the first to reach North America? | Leif Erikson |
| Who realized Columbus mistake and sailed west landing on South America? | Amerigo Vespucci |
| Who sailed west searching for the Northwest Passage to Asia | Jacques Cartier |
| Who was the first to find Asia | Vasco de Gama |
| Why did Columbus call the natives "Indians" | he thought he had reached India |
| What caused the Arawak people to die within 50 yrs of Explorers coming | disease and enslavement |