SS: Ch. 2 Age of Exploration

A conqueror

What effect did the Columbian Exchange have on most of the native people in North America?

How did the compass help explorers navigate ships?

Why did Cortes take Moctezuma prisoner?

What item from the Columbian Exchange helped the Native Americans the most?

Why did Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand need money from trade with Asia?

What is true about Prince Henry's navigation school?

How did the Native Americans and Spanish treat each other?

Which one of the following is a product that was NOT brought from Europe to the Americas?

An organized group of people taking a journey for a purpose.

A group of nations or peoples ruled by a single authority.

What did Columbus and Magellan have in common?

Which was NOT a reason Prince Henry started his navigational school?

Which explorer was the first to sail around the world?

Why did Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand fund Columbus' voyage?

What navigational tool helped European sailors know how far they had traveled from the equator?

What did Columbus name the area where he landed on his first voyage?

What conditions did the Native Americans and the Africans share in New Spain?

A person who buys and sells goods.

The use of scientific knowledge or new tool to improve how things are done.

What is the best definition for the Columbian Exchange?

An outbreak of disease affecting many people at the same time.

What did Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand want Columbus to trade for in Asia?

What direction did Columbus sail in his attempt to reach Asia?

What was the long term effect of introducing corn and potatoes to the Europeans?

To travel completely around.

great harm

How was the caravel different from other earlier ships?

What advantage did Portugal have for exploring the oceans and other lands?

The process of charting a course for a ship or an aircraft.

A settlement far away from the country that rules it.

What was Ponce de Leon looking for when he traveled into Florida from Puerto Rico?

Why did Europeans import enslaved Africans to North America?

A store set up in a distant place to allow trade to take place.

A person who supports the work of another person or organization, often with money.

Which of the following is a product that was brought to Europe from the Americas?

A small, fast sailing ship created by the Portuguese in the 1400s.

What reason below is NOT why European merchants wanted to find a sea route to Asia?

The capture, enslavement, buying, and selling of people for profit.