Unit 2 Age of Exploration

1. Unit 2Age of Exploration Lessons 1-4

2. Vocabulary • emperor • longitude • trading post • settlement • reform • astrolabe • compass • A place to live that is set up in a new area • The ruler of an empire • A place where people meet to trade goods • To change • A distance east or west of the prime meridian, usually measured in degrees • A tool that shows which direction is north • A tool that helped sailors use the sun and stars to find their location

3. A river that flows into a larger river or lake • A long and carefully organized trip • A science used by sailors to find their place and plan their route • A person who makes maps or charts • The practice of owning people and forcing them to work without pay • A distance north or south of the equator, usually measured in degrees • To change someone’s or one’s own beliefs • convert • expedition • tributary • slavery • cartographer • navigation • latitude

4. A person who starts a new business • The act of sailing around something • An official document from an authority to do something • An area or place that is ruled by a distant country • A place set up by a religious group to teach religion and other ways of life to native people • charter • circumnavigation • entrepreneur • mission • colony

5. Marco Polo’s book caused • more books on swimming games to be written • more people to be interested in Asia • him to become extremely wealthy • war between Spain and Portugal

6. New technology in the 1400’s • made crossing the Northwest Passage possible • helped Marco Polo with his expedition • made travel by sea change • lead to the Protestant Reformation

7. Which of the following was NOT a goal of European exploration? • finding new trade routes to Asia • controlling new land • establishing colonies • ending the Reconquista

8. Converting people to Catholicism was the goal of • the American Indians • the Reconquista • the Counter Reformation • Amerigo Vespucci

9. Name two present-day cities founded by the Dutch (from the Netherlands). • New Amsterdam and Fort Orange • Boston and Albany • New York City and Albany • Buffalo and New York City

10. Atlantic trade routes carried goods and enslaved people between __, , and ____. Africa Europe the Americas

11. Which countries claimed land in the Americas (click to find out)? Spain China Germany Russia Portugal France England Sweden Belgium The Netherlands YES NO

12. Why did colonists often build settlements near the sea or along rivers? Colonists settled near bodies of water so that they could move and easier. people supplies

13. Finding new trade routes were important to European leaders and early explorers for all of the reasons EXCEPT • the current sea routes were risky • flooding had destroyed all the crops • thieves robbed merchants • travel between Europe and Asia was costly and dangerous

14. In 1540, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado explored Mexico looking for cities of gold. He never found them, but the area later was settled with missions was attacked by aliens was inhabited by tiny gremlins was populated with thousands of leprechauns

15. Name two tools that improved sailing and explain why they were important. Two tools that improved sailing were the _________________ and the _____________. The ________________ shows which direction is ___________, and the ____________ helped sailors use the sun and stars to find their location. Europeans now felt it was possible to search for new sea routes to _________. magnetic compass astrolabe magnetic compass north astrolabe Asia

16. What was the Northwest Passage? How did the search for the Northwest Passage and Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe change Europeans’ understanding of the world? water route The Northwest Passage is a ________ ________ through __________ ___________ that would lead to the _________ Ocean and thus to _____. The Europeans now knew that the riches of Asia could be reached by way of a __________ route. North America Pacific Asia westward

17. How did the New World become known as America? Amerigo Vespucci __________ __________lead an expedition south of where Columbus had landed. A ___________ suggested naming this New World after Vespucci, so they called it America. cartographer

18. Name the geographic areas that each of the following countries settled in the New World: Spain Present-dayCentral America South America France Eastern North America Portugal Eastern South America

19. How did the Age of Exploration change the world? Mention at least ONE European Explorer and explain his role. GOOD LUCK!