Ch 15 The Age of Exploration

Who was the first European to find a direct route to Asia, going around Africa to get to India?

Sugarcane, coffee, tobacco and cotton were grown in what Portuguese colony?

What body of water is west of Africa?

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Which advancement, made by the Greeks, did the European adopt for overseas exploration?

Europeans used enslaved Africans for what purpose?

Why did Europeans decide to find water routes to Asia rather than land routes?

Who was credited with finding the Pacific Ocean?

What effect did the Columbian Exchange have on the native people?

Which explorer led the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe?

How were the new navigation techniques introduced to the Europeans?

What is an exchange of goods and business?

A theory that depends on more exports than imports in order to make money

Largest subcontinent in the southern part of Asia

What helped the Europeans the MOST in conquering the Natives

According to mercantilism, what was the purpose of colonies?

What two countries lie on the Iberian peninsula?

The exchanging of people, products and diseases between the new and the old world is known as..

Ocean east of Asia and west of North America.

A Spanish soldier/explorer who conquers other lands

What English navigator claimed land for the Dutch along the Atlantic Ocean?

Which Spanish conquistador through disease, weapons and ally tribes defeated the Aztecs?

Who is most responsible for Portugal's success on the seas?

What body of water is south of the continent of Europe

What is another name for the large farms that the Spanish created?