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European Exploration
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What word describes the government, policies, laws, etc. ? | political |
| What word describes the people, way of life, beliefs, religion, etc.? | cultural |
| What word describes how people support themselves using limited resources; involves money, jobs, trade, farming, industries, etc? | economic |
| Who financed many explorers? | governments (monarchs) such as Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain financing Columbus's voyages |
| What were the Spanish grants of land called where money money was made from mining, farming or ranching? | encomiendas |
| What is money left over after expenses are paid? | profit |
| What European nation created a New World Empire in modern day Mexico, Central and South America, as well as Florida? | Spain |
| How can the motives of explorers be summarized? | God, Gold, Glory |
| Where was the destination of sought after trade routes for early explorers? | Asia (like the Spice Islands) |
| What motivated the French and Netherlands to establish New World Empires in the Americas? | Fur trade with the Natives |
| What European country was motivated to explore and colonize in order to spread Christianity? | Spain |
| Places where goods were bought and sold; desire to increase these led to explorations? | markets |
| increased demand for luxury trade items after visiting China and writing a book of his experiences | Marco Polo |
| What are large farms that grew cash crops like sugar cane to provide raw materials for the "mother country" called? | plantations |
| The 2 way exchange of goods and ideas between old and new world is known as? | Columbian Exchange |
| What Portuguese explorer was the first to sail to successfully sail to India and reported thousand percent profits from the Spice Trade? | Vasco de Gama |
| Ferdinand Magellan was the first to accomplish this, although he died in the Philippines and his surviving crew completed the mission. | circumnavigated the globe |
| Who landed in the Bahamas, but believed he had found the western water route to Asia? His voyages led to the discovery of North and South America. | Columbus |
| What gave Europeans the ability to explore further from shore line? | technology |
| Stronger, faster sailing ships developed by Portugal were called? | caravel |
| Navigational instruments that could tell north and south of the equator by the position of stars were? | astrolabe |
| Who organized a school for navigation in Portugal? | Prince Henry "The Navigator" |
| What Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztecs at Tenochtitlan (present-day Mexico City) by 1521 with the help of weapons, diseases, alliances with those subjugated by the Aztecs? | Hernan Cortez |
| What killed most of the native population in the Americas, creating a need for a new source of workers? | epidemics of diseases such as small pox |
| The global exchange of goods, ideas, culture, plants, animals...between the Old and New Worlds following 1492 is called? | Columbian Exchange |
| The need for agricultural workers led to the use of what? | enslaved people from Africa |
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