European Exploration

Question 1

Means for exploration?

Answer 1

Ship tech improved, better maps, and increased knowledge of wind patterns/ocean currents

Question 2

Motives for exploration?

Answer 2

Economic reasons, glory, and religious reasons

Question 3

(Portuguese)Prince Henry the Navigator

Answer 3

Sponsored voyages that discovered gold on West African coast

Question 4

(Portuguese) Bartholomeu Dias

Answer 4

Discovered Cape of Good Hope

Question 5

(Portuguese) Vasco de Gama

Answer 5

Arrived at Calicut, India and returned with spices

Question 6

(Spanish)Christopher Columbus

Answer 6

Reached all major Caribbean islands/Honduras

Question 7

(Spanish)Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 7

Found a waterway along South America called Strait of Magellan

Question 8

Dutch explorers

Answer 8

Took control of spice trade from Portuguese

Question 9

(French) Samuel de Champlain

Answer 9

Colonised parts of Canada and North America

Question 10

(English) Francis Drake “The Dragon”

Answer 10

Sailed along western coastline of North/South America

Question 11

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 11

It gave Spain the right to colonize and rule North and South America, while Portugal owned the rights to Africa and Asia.

Question 12

Mercantilism

Answer 12

The only way to increase wealth was by reducing the wealth of another nation; one also wanted to buy less than they sold to where they can export more to colonies than import