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Age of Exploration
Test Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Marco Polo | Which Venetian explorer's accounts of his travels to Asia encouraged exploration. |
| astrolabe and magnetic compass | What tools did navigators use to know where they were and where they were going? |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | Who provided leadership for Portuguese exploration in the 1400s? |
| Cape of Good Hope | What landmark was Bartolomeu Dias the first European to reach? |
| A route to the Indian Ocean | What important route did Dias's discovery lead to? |
| The eastern coast of Africa | Where did Vasco da Gama explore? |
| Brazil | Although Pedro Alvares Cabral set sail for India, where did he accidentally end up reaching first? |
| The Bahamas | Where did Christopher Columbus make landfall on his first voyage? |
| He thought he had reached the East Indies. | Why did Columbus call the people he encountered 'Indians'? |
| Divided the land in the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal | What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do? |
| Encomiendas | What name was given to the system of land and labor grants that the Spaniards set up to encourage settlers? |
| Las Casas | Who was the Spanish missionary who tried to end the enslavement of Indians? |
| Where are the Straits of Magellan? | Near the southern tip of South America |
| Roanoke Island | What was the first English colony in North America? |
| Jamestown, Virginia | What was the first permanent English settlement in North America? |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Which explorer did not visit North America? |
| The Pacific Ocean | What body of water did Vasco Núñez de Balboa reach with Francisco Pizarro? |
| Fur trade | Which trade got France interested in building colonies in New France? |
| Giovanni da Verrazano | Who was the first European to sail up the Atlantic coast of the present-day United States? |
| Canada around Montreal | Which North American area did Jacques Cartier claim for France? |
| Marquette and Jolliet | Who were the first Europeans to reach the Mississippi River? |
| What did Henry Hudson accomplish? | He sailed up a river into what is now New York State and also found a huge inland sea in Canada. |
| What was the Middle Passage? | The journey of enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas |
| The Netherlands | Which country took over the Spice Trade after Portugal weakened? |
| What is a sextant? | A navigational instrument that uses a telescope and scale to determine latitude and longitude. |
| What is a cartographer? | A mapmaker |
| What does it mean to circumnavigate? | To travel completely around something, especially by water. |
| What is colonization? | The practice of controlling and settling an area with people from another country. |
| What does indigenous mean? | Native to a particular region or environment. |
| What is a fleet? | A group of ships sailing together with the same purpose and under the control of the same leader |
| What is a monopoly? | A situation in which one person, country, or company has complete control of the supply of a good or service. |
| What is mutiny? | The rebellion of a ship's crew against the captain |
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