5.01 Review

​Lesson 1 Review

Portugal & Spain: Age of Exploration

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Unit 5​

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Why was Europe interested in traveling by sea?

• Trade (Silk Road) between Europe and Asia was doing well.

• Growing interest in Asian spices in addition to silks & gems.

• Then the Ottomans took control of land routes.

• Travel by land grew expensive & dangerous.​

• New ship designs & new technologies made traveling by sea easier.​

Multiple Select

What were the main reasons Europeans were looking for sea routes to Asia?

• They believed Asia would then lead them to the Americas.

• Land travel between Europe & Asia was difficult.

• Travel by boat was more fun.

• Demand was growing for more goods from Asia.

​Can you locate?

• Portugal

• Spain

• Atlantic Ocean

• Mediterranean Sea

• Cape of Good Hope​

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​A

​S

​P

​C

Important People to know

Prince Henry (Portugal)

• known as The Navigator, but sailed very little

• Funded expeditions along African coast & new technologies for ship building and sailing

Bartolomeu Dias (Portugal)

• Led a voyage to find the southern tip of Africa - later named the Cape of Good Hope

Ferdinand & Isabella (Spain)

• Funded Columbus' voyage when Portugal refused to.​​

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Christopher Columbus (Italy)

• ​Want to sail West to get to Asia (Indies)

• When he found land (Bahamas) he named the people Indians because he thought he landed in the Indies.​

• Claimed the land for Spain​

​Amerigo Vespucci (Italy)

• Sailed to the new world (for both Portugal & Spain) after Columbus and documented everything.​

• Mapmakers named the new land Amerigo​

Multiple Choice

This European was the first to round the southern tip of Africa.

• Da Gama

• Magellan

• Cortes

• Dias

Multiple Choice

They sponsored (paid for) Columbus' voyage in 1492.

• King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella of Spain

• Wealthy merchants of Italy

• King Manuel I of Portugal

• Pope Alexander VI

Multiple Choice

Columbus consider the native people he met his equals.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

This Portuguese prince and patron of sea expeditions played a key role in the search for sea routes to Asia.

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Francis Drake

• Henry the Navigator

• Henry VIII

Multiple Choice

Why did Columbus call the native people he met Indians?

• All native people to a land were called Indians

• He thought he landed in the Indies

• That is what he was told to call them

• He was from Cleveland