2.1-2.2 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
More people became interested in India, China, and the rest of Asia as the story of who spread and exotic goods from the east appeared in European markets | marco polo |
What was the period of great intellectual and artistic creativity | the renaissiance |
This period of time encouraged europeans to pursue new ideas and paved the way for an age of what | exploration and discovery |
during the 1400s, merchants and bankers wanted to expand their businesses by buying goods from the | east |
they did this without going through the arab and what cities | italian |
strong monarchs in spain, portugal, england, and france sought ways to increase what and make their countries stronger | trade |
technological advances helped prepare the way for european voyages of exploration such as... | the magnetic compass |
these advances helped launch a new era of exploration as powerful countries began searching for sea routes to... | asia |
trade of gold,ivory, copper, and iron ore helped create wealthy, powerful kingdoms in... south of the sahara | africa |
many west africans in ghana became... as a result of their contacts with north american traders | muslims |
what country led exploration in the early 1400s | portugal |
why was price henry called henry the navigator | he caused others to explore and started navigation schools |
where was the gold coast | along the coast of west africa |
what did the portuguese trade and buy on the gold coast | gold and ivory, bought slaves |
who led the portuguese expedition to india in 1492 | visco da gama |
how did christopher columbus plan to reach asia | by sailing west |
when did the viking leif eriksson explore vinland | 1000 |
who financed columbus's 1492 voyage | queen isabella |
what were the names of columbus's three ships | nixa, pinta, santa maria |
why did columbus write "having trouble with the crew" | the sailors began to worry they were never going to reach asia and threatened to throw him off the ship |
why are the caribbean islands called the west indies | columbus thought they were the east indies and they were west of europe |
what imaginary line was drawn down the middle of the atlantic to keep peace between spain and portugal | the line of demarcation |
what gave spain the right to most of north and south america | the treaty of tortisillas |
who was the first to circumnavigate the world | ferdinand magellan |
how long did it take the first voyage around the world take | almost three years |
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