Age of Exploration

In 1494, the Treaty of Tordesillas created a line of ________.

• love
• demarcation
• money
• people

How was Ferdinand Magellan able to prove the Earth was round?

• He circumnavigated the Earth by ship from Spain and back again
• He opened up a school of navigation to educate the people
• He came up with Magellan's Mathematical Equation to prove it
• Christopher Columbus confirmed his theory on his voyage

Vasco Da Gama

• First Portuguese explorer to make it to India
• Thought he landed in the East Indies, called local people Indians
• Gets the credit for first European to circumnavigate around the world
• First European to make it to North America

What is the name of the voyage West Coast African slaves took to the Americas?

• The Middle Passage

• The Long Journey

• The Long Passage

• The Middle Journey

A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.

• racism
• colony
• mercantalism
• ethnocentric

Why did Europeans switch from enslaving Native Americans for forced labor to importing slaves from Africa?

• It was too expensive for explorers

• Native Americans died from hard work and diseases

• Missionaries thought that it was a sin

• The Native Americans fought back against Spain

Three motivations for European explorers: God, Gold, and ______.

• Grace
• Glory
• Greed
• Glaciers

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Who sponsored Portuguese fleets that sailed along the western coast of Africa?

• Prince Henry the Navigator
• Queen Isabella
• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand Magellan 

Vasco Da Gama

• First Portuguese explorer to make it to India
• Thought he landed in the East Indies, called local people Indians
• Gets the credit for first European to circumnavigate around the world
• First European to make it to North America

Christopher Columbus

• First Portuguese explorer to make it to India
• Thought he landed in the East Indies, called local people Indians
• Gets the credit for first European to circumnavigate around the world
• First European to make it to North America