WH Exploration Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
What are the three reasons for European exploration? | God, Glory and Gold |
What does God mean in the three reasons for European exploration? | The need to spread Christianity |
What does Glory mean in the three reasons for European exploration? | The explorers were famous for their adventures |
What does Gold mean in the three reasons for European exploration? | They could make huge profits from stealing gold from the lands they explored or they could sell spices for huge profits to their countries. |
Which people gave compasses, astrolabes, maps and triangle sails to Europeans who used them to explore? | Arabs |
What country started exploring first from Europe? | Portugal |
What did Prince Henry the Navigator do to start European exploration? | He started a school that trained explorers on how to sail on the ocean. |
Where did the Portuguese explore first? | The west coast of Africa. (because they were close to it) |
What did the Spanish do in Mexico? | They took over the Aztecs and took their gold. |
Why was it so easy for the Spanish to takeover the Incas and the Aztecs? | They had diseases and better weapons and horses. |
Who was the last leader of the Aztecs? | Montezuma |
What did the Spanish do in Peru? | They took over the Incas and took their gold. |
Where did the Portuguese take over? | Brazil |
What was the Columbia Exchange? | The exchange of goods, diseases and people between the old and new world and vice versa. |
What was the old and new worlds? | Old - Afroeurasia New - North and South America |
What things came from Afroeurasia to the Americas? | Slaves, diseases (smallpox), animals like horses and cows |
What things came from the Americas to Afroeurasia? | Crops like tomatoes, potatoes and tobacco |
Which European country controlled New York before it was New York? | Netherlands (Dutch) |
Which European country controlled Virginia and Massachusetts? | England |
Which European country controlled Canada and Louisiana? | France |
What crop led to an influx of slaves from Afroeurasia to the Americas? | Sugar |
What item did Europeans trade most for slaves in Africa? | Guns |
Most slaves were ________ from Africa. | Prisoners of War |
6=Ancient civilization that flourished in present day Peru. | Incas |
11=A Portuguese navigator of the sixteenth century. His crew was the first to sail around the Earth, although he was killed on the voyage11 | Ferdinand Magellan |
13=In 1494, what papal decree divided all future discoveries between Spain and Portugal?13 | Treaty of Tordesillas |
61=The Treaty of Tordesillas divided all future discoveries between Spain and Portugal along a line known as what? | Line of Demarcation |
First European to Asia in 1400s by land | Marco Polo |
First to sail around the world (died in the Philippines) | Magellan (his ship made it back home) |
What percentage of all the slaves shipped across the Atlantic arrived in what is today the US? | Around 5% |
Where did most African slaves end up? | Brazil and the Caribbean |
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rockcastle