G-5/10/21: Explorers

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The Age of Exploration began with a search for new trade routes to

• Africa

• America

• Asia

• Europe

G-5/4: Explorers

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Main motivation for European exploration

• the need for Slave labor
• God, Gold, Glory
• to see if the earth was flat
• none of these are correct

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Why did some European rulers agree to be patrons for explorers?

• They believed the explorers could find new animals that they could keep for pets.

• They could earn money, gain land, and spread Christianity in the new lands.

• Most explorers were their relatives, so they wanted to help them succeed.

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What European explorer is responsible for teaching future explorers about sailing, ship building, navigation, and cartography?

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Amerigo Vespucci

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What is cartography?

• the study of the Earth's surface, its atmosphere and its features

• the study and practice of making maps

• the average weather in a place over many years

• the study of the human past

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What European explorer is responsible for teaching future explorers about sailing, ship building, navigation, and cartography?

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Amerigo Vespucci

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Southern Tip of Africa

• Cape of Magellan 
• Cape of Good Hope
• Indian Ocean 
• Panama Canal 

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What reason did Europeans go exploring?

• To convert people to Christianity

• To become wealthy by finding gold

• To become famous

• The bring peace to the Ottoman Empire

• To end Feudalism and Serfdom

​G-5/11/21: Explorers

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Why did Columbus call the Taino natives Indians?

• Because they asked him to

• Because Columbus thought he had landed in the West Indies (India).

• Because he liked the name Indians.

• Because he did not understand what they were trying to say.

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What was signed to prevent war between Portugal & Spain to move the line of Demarcation

• Treaty of Tordesillas
• Treaty of Navgation
• Treaty of Demarcation
• Treaty of Exploration

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Why did European explorers explore?

• God, Gold, & Galore

• God, Golf, & Glory

• God, Goat, & Glory

• God, Gold, & Glory

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travelling completely around the world, usually by water

• circumnavigation

• northwest passage

• astrolabe

• explorer

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The 7000+ Philippine Islands were named after who?

• Civil Rights Activist, Wendell Phillips
• King of Spain, Philip II
• Priest, Phillips Brooks

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Missionaries, forced conversion, and relocation is the main way this spread (during the Age of Exploration)

• English language

• Christianity

• Smallpox

• livestock

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Which TWO ways show how Native Americans were NEGATIVELY affected by the Europeans' arrival.

• They learned about new types of food.

• They caught diseases brought over by Europeans.

• Some were forced into slavery and others were forced to adopt Christianity as their religion.

• Horses were introduced to their population which helped them in areas such as travel and hunting.

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Zheng He was a(n)...

• General

• Admiral

• Mongolian Warrior

• Emperor

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Zheng He's traveled as far as

• India

• Europe

• America

• East Africa

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What did Zheng He accomplish?

• He conquered Japan

• He discovered America

• He spread spread Confucianism

• He expanded China's political influence

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Zheng He was from

• Korea

• China

• Japan

• India