Europeans Explore Overseas 11.1

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The Age of Exploration began in the early 15th century and continued into the early 17th century.

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The Age of Exploration.

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The transfer of plants, animals, foods, human populations, communicable diseases, and culture between the Eastern and Western hemispheres is known as the

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Columbian Exchange.

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What European country is credited with launching the Age of Exploration by systematically exploring the Atlantic coast of Africa?

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Portugal

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The Treaty of Tordesillas

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divided the world into two regions of exploration between Spain and Portugal.

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One important factor that limited European knowledge of the world was

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maps were old and incomplete.

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What Arab navigation tool greatly helped Europeans begin widespread oceanic exploration?

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the astrolabe

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What two goods encouraged Europeans to try to find sea routes to east Asia and develop direct trade between the two regions?

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silk and spices

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What Portuguese royalty financed much of Portugal’s early exploration of the African coast?

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Prince Henry

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A major advance that opened up the safe sailing of the open Atlantic was a type of ship known as a

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caravel.

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What explorer was the first to round the southern tip of Africa in 1488?

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Bartholomeu Dias