Age of Exploration

Prince Henry the Navigator.....

• Paid for Columbus's voyages

• Set up schools to teach the Portuguese to teach sailors how to sail, make maps, build ships

• Circumnavigated the world

• invented new sails for caravel ships

Started schools of navigation to train sailors

• Prince Henry

• King Ferdinand

• Queen Elizabeth

• Prince Charles

First sailor to circumnavigate the world

• Columbus

• Vasco Da Gama

• James Cook

• Magellen

I reached the Bahamas but I thought I was in India

• Columbus

• Magellan

• Vasco Da Gama

• James Cook

Conquistador that conquered the Aztecs

• Pizarro

• Cortes

• Magellan

• Felipe

Conquistador that conquered Incas

• Cortes

• Magellan

• Pizarro

• Diego

Quebec was the first colony in America owned by the....

• Spanish

• English

• Dutch

• French

In England, citizens formed _______ to pay for voyages

• Monopolies

• Joint Stock Companies

• Mercantilism

• Capitalism

a system in which merchants trade & invest money in order to make a profit

• Mercantilism

• Joint Stock Company

• Columbian Exchange

• Capitalism

national power comes from a favorable balance of trade

• Mercantilism

• Capitalism

• Columbian Exchange

• Joint Stock Companies