7th Grade Age of Exploration Notes Review

Who was primarily responsible for Portugal's leadership in exploration?

The Spanish created a system of conquest and colonization that proved very effective - what is the term?

Which invention, originating in China, improved the safety of ocean travel?

What was the king's fifth?

What type of ship did Prince Henry develop to aid exploration?

Which trade route linked China and the West with trading routes?

The South Atlantic Current travels ______________________ between Africa and South America. 

What was one of the main motivations for Europeans to find new routes to Asia?

What crop from the Americas became popular in Europe due to the Columbian Exchange?

What was one positive result of the Columbian Exchange for Europe?

What major practice was part of the West African economy in the 1400s?

How did knowledge of the Atlantic Ocean currents help sailors?

What diseases did Europeans bring to the Americas?

When did the Portuguese first begin interacting with the West African slave trade?

What livestock did Europeans introduce to the Americas?

What was the West African coast known as during Portuguese exploration?

The modern word for an astrolabe is a sextant.

Europeans were motivated to find other ways, so they worked on the means to get to Asia by ____________.

What were the four "S's" that Europeans became infatuated with after the Crusades and Marco Polo's travels?

What did the astrolabe allow sailors to do?

What event in 1453 disrupted access to Asian trade routes for Europeans?

Who started the pattern of exploration westward to reach Asia?

What was the Columbian Exchange?

What were the primary goals of Spanish conquistadores?

What was a primary goal of early European exploration?

What was the purpose of Prince Henry's school of navigation?

Which country led the way in exploring new sea routes to Asia?

Which European country first sailed all over the world during the 16th century?

Sailors figured out that the North Atlantic Current moves counterclockwise between Europe and the Caribbean

Why were indigenous peoples devastated by European diseases?