European Exploration and Expansion (Overview)

Question 1

Why did the Spaniards set to sea?

Answer 1

To eliminate the Muslim merchants to Asia

Question 2

Which is NOT a reason why sea travel increased?
A. Navigation tools
B. Better shipbuilding
C. Agriculture
D. Gunpowder developed weapons

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Why did Portugal lead the way for for sea trade?

Answer 3

They were close to the African coast

Question 4

What is Vasco de Gama credited for?

Answer 4

He was the first European to reach India by sea sailing around the tip of Africa

Question 5

Who was an Italian navigator that discovered the New Work in the service of Spain while looking for a route to India?
A. Bartholomew Dias
B. Christopher Columbus
C. Henry the Navigator
D.Jacques Cartier

Answer 5

B. Christopher Columbus
Henry the Navigator promoted navigation and explored down the western coast of Africa
Bartholomew Dias was the first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope (tip of Africa)

Question 6

What was the difference between Amerigo Vespucci’s and Ferdinand Magellan’s voyages?

Answer 6

Vespucci corrected Columbus’s mistake, searching the coast of America as a new world. (America is named after him
Magellan was the first to lead an expedition to sail around the world

Question 7

What is the Treaty of Tordesillas? Why was it needed?

Answer 7

An imaginary line running down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean from the North pole to the South Pole dividing American between Spain and Portugal
Needed to settle the difference between the 2 countries

Question 8

Colonialism and expansion of trade routes had what effect on the world?

Answer 8

Rise of nationalism and development of minarchies

Question 9

What is mercantilism (important)

Answer 9

economic policy under which nations sought to increase wealth and power by obtaining a large amount of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought