The Age Of Exploration

Question 0

Four things that went from the Old World to the New World

Answer 0

Cabbage
Barley
Lettuce
Oats

Question 1

4 things that went from the New World to the Old World

Answer 1

Cacao
Maize
Papaya
Squash

Question 2

What was the motivation for exploring the seas

Answer 2

The search for spices

Valuable for European diet

Question 3

Scurvy

Answer 3

Deficiency of vitamin C
Sailors commonly got this; ate lemons as a solution
Limeys- English sailors

Question 4

Cartographers

Answer 4

Mapmakers

Question 5

Bartholomeu Dias

Answer 5

First to round the tip of Africa
first called the Cape of Storms, roughest weather there’s in the world
Later called Cape of Good Hope, because it opened up sea route to Asia

Question 6

Vasco de Gama

Answer 6

Lead four ships around the Cape of Good Hope

Reached spice port of Calicut

Question 7

Columbus

Answer 7

Paid to sail by Spain to go to India for spices
Wanted to reach the east by sailing west across the Atlantic
Didn’t know two continents lay in his way

Question 8

Line of Demarcation

Answer 8

Set by the pope in the Treaty of Tortesillas; split the Americas
Portugal had trading and exploring rights east of the line
Spain had the same rights west of the line

Question 9

Ethnocentrism

Answer 9

The belief that your ethnicity is superior to all others

Question 10

How the Americas got its name

Answer 10

Nam after Amerigo by a cartographer

Guns made conquering the new world easy

Question 11

Balboa

Answer 11

First to go through Panama and view what came to be known as the Pacific Ocean -Peaceful Ocean

Question 12

Magellan

Answer 12

FIRST TO CIRCUMNAVIGATE THE GLOBE
Went around the tip of South America and went through the Straits of Magellan to avoid the inclement weather to get to the Pacific
Travelled through the Pacific and reached the Philipines

Question 13

Maritime

Answer 13

Of the sea

Question 14

It was an era of:

Answer 14

Globalization

Question 15

Mercantilism

Answer 15

Where the government controls the economy and want to set up colonies to benefit the mother country
Aimed at strengthening their national economies

Question 16

Tariff

Answer 16

A tax on imported goods
Protective tariffs: higher taxes
Revenue tariffs: lower tax

Question 17

Subsidize

Answer 17

Encouraging a certain industry by giving financial assistance to that particular industry

Question 18

Entrepreneur

Answer 18

One who starts their own business

Question 19

The Dutch

Answer 19

Lived on the North Sea
The land was at or below sea level -part of the “low countries”
Great sailors and merchants

Question 20

Netherlands capital of Amsterdam

Answer 20

Financial capital of Europe

The Dutch used its wealth to creat a worldwide empire and the largest navy in Europe in the 17th century

Question 21

The Dutch East Trading Company

Answer 21

Formed by wealthy merchants
Had full sovereign powers- full and independent authority (could declare war in the region)
Great influence in Indonesia ;dominated the region

Question 22

1492

Answer 22

Columbus sets sail, headed across the Atlantic

Question 23

1488

Answer 23

Dias rounded the tip of Africa- the Cape of Good Hope

Question 24

1497

Answer 24

De Gama successfully lead four ships around the Cape of Good Hope to Asia, opening up the spice trade and sea routes