Topic 1:Geography & European Exploration Vocabulary Quiz

A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever, weakness, and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs; responsible for killing Native Americans.

• Covid

• Polio

• Mumps

• Smallpox

Triangular Trade

• System of trade routes connecting North America, Europe and Africa

• Forced transatlantic migration of millions of people from Africa to Americas

• To sail or travel all the way around (something, especially the world)..

• The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and materials between the Americas and Eurasia, which resulted in a better economy for the East and a rapidly decreasing population for the West, due to the diseases.

Market Economy

• 1494 Agreement between Spain and Portugal that set a boundary called Line of Demarcation.

• Economic system based on investing money for profit.

• Represents the three main reasons for Europeans to start exploring and traveling to new lands- to convert the natives to their religion; to get their name publicized and become famous; to gain riches and wealth. Represents the three main reasons for Europeans to start exploring and traveling to new lands- to convert the natives to their religion; to get their name publicized and become famous; to gain riches and wealth.

• Prices are based on supply and demand.

The Aztec ruler when Cortés and his men arrived in November of 1519; neither him nor his men had ever seen horses, firearms, cannons, and steel; Cortés' men eventually took him hostage.

• Marco Polo

• Montezuma

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Christopher Columbus

Line of Demarcation

• 1494 Agreement between Spain and Portugal that set a boundary called Line of Demarcation.

• Economic system based on investing money for profit.

• Prices are based on supply and demand.

• a boundary between areas under Spanish control and areas under Portuguese control. Affirmed division set up by the Pope.

Reconquista

• 1494 Agreement between Spain and Portugal that set a boundary called Line of Demarcation.

• Economic system based on investing money for profit.

• Represents the three main reasons for Europeans to start exploring and traveling to new lands- to convert the natives to their religion; to get their name publicized and become famous; to gain riches and wealth. Represents the three main reasons for Europeans to start exploring and traveling to new lands- to convert the natives to their religion; to get their name publicized and become famous; to gain riches and wealth.

• War to reunite Spain under Christian rulers

(1394-1460)

Portuguese Prince credited with launching the Age of Exploration. Sponsored voyages to explore Africa that led to Portuguese colonization of parts of Africa. African Slave Trade began as part of these voyages.

• Vasco da Gama

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus

• Prince Henry the Navigator

Trade route that connected Europe and Asia.

• Silk Road

• Spice Trade

• Slave Trade

• Columbian Exchange

1469 marry and unite their kingdoms. Spend the next 23 years at war to drive Muslims rulers out and unite Spain as one kingdom= Reconquista; 1492- Last Muslim kingdom falls; 1492- Jews expelled from Spain; 1492- Columbus sets sail.

• Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille:

• Marco Polo

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Vasco da Gama

1500 Portuguese explorer sailed west for Asia and "discovered" South America. Claimed Brazil for Portugal.

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernan Cortes

• Pedro Álvares Cabral

• Montezuma