Age of Exploration Key Terms

Which country created the East India Company that controlled Indian Ocean trade?

Which route represents the path taken by the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias (Diaz)?

Which route represents the path taken by the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama?

Which route represents the path taken by the Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés (Cortez)?

Group that sought religious freedom from the Anglican Church and settled at Massachusetts Bay.

Which route represents the path taken by the European explorer Christopher Columbus?

Lands that are owned/controlled by another nation are referred to as what?

Other than economic issues, why did Spain and Portugal colonize Latin America in the 1500s?

Which of the following was a Genoese sea captain who first sailed for Spain in 1492?

Where could one have found the most colonies with the greatest Spanish influence in 1500?

Name for the Dutch holdings in North America

Which European country was the first to launch large scale exploration voyages?

During the 15th century, who was known as one of the main supporters of Portuguese exploration?

The base of France's colonial empire in North America was called which of the following?

Incan ruler that was ambushed by Francisco Pizarro near the city of Cajamarca.

Which of these was the name of the English settlement in Virginia?

The astrolabe had the GREATEST impact on

Cortes had a group of followers to aid him in his exploration. What were they called?

Which Spaniard first landed on the shores of Mexico?

Native American ruler who led an attack on colonial villages throughout Massachusetts

This group of English settlers settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Children from Spanish settlers and Native American women were called what?

A dispute over land claims in the Ohio Valley that led to a war between the British and French.

Which explorer conquered the Incan empire?

The system in which the Spanish forced the Native Americans to work the land.