Age of exploration Flashcards

1

Why did countries fund expensive and risky expeditions?

2

What area of the world was still not mapped at the end of the Age of Exploration?

3

Which explorer discovered a trade route from the southern tip of Africa to India?

4

The Age of Exploration took place at about the same time as the European Renaissance?

5

What cont sponsored Christopher Columbus when he found the Americas

6

Who’s henry the navigator?

7

What were most of the explorers looking for on their expeditions?

8

Which country founded the thirteen colonies that later became the United States

9

Which explorer conquered the Aztec emp in Mexico

10

The Treaty of Tordesillas divided up the New World between what two countries?

Age of exploration