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Question 1

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 1

This Treaty was created by the Pope that created the Line of Demarcation.

Question 1

Gold, Ivory, Enslaved people

Answer 1

Some of the resources that Portugal brought back from Africa.

Question 2

Spices, silks, gems, and cotton

Answer 2

Some of the resources that European countries wanted from Asia.

Question 3

Fish

Answer 3

The major resource that English explorers found in North America.

Question 4

Astrolabe

Answer 4

An instrument used by sailors to observe positions of stars

Question 5

Line of Demarcation

Answer 5

An imaginary line running down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean from the North Pole to the South Pole dividing the Americas between Spain and Portugal

Question 6

Strait

Answer 6

A narrow passageway connecting two larger bodies of water

Question 7

Circumnavigate

Answer 7

To sail around the world

Question 8

Conquistador

Answer 8

Spanish explorer in the Americas in the 1500s.

Question 9

Mercantilism

Answer 9

The theory that a state’s or nation’s power depended on its wealth

Question 10

Columbian Exchange

Answer 10

Exchange of goods, ideas, and people between Europe and the Americas

Question 11

Portugal and Spain

Answer 11

The two countries that were the world leaders of exploration.

Question 12

Arab Merchants

Answer 12

Europeans wanted to bypass these people in order to get Asian goods cheaper.

Question 13

Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria

Answer 13

The names of Columbus’ three ships

Question 14

Travels

Answer 14

The name of Marco Polo’s journal

Question 15

West

Answer 15

Christopher Columbus sailed this direction to reach “Asia”

Question 16

Four

Answer 16

The number of expeditions that Christopher Columbus took

Question 17

China

Answer 17

The country where Marco Polo traveled to and wrote about in his journal

Question 18

Europe, Asia, Africa

Answer 18

The three continents that were on the first maps