age of exploration

What was a negative effect of the Columbian Exchange

Diseases such as measles and smallpox were spread

Why did the Europeans need new trade routes?

Europeans were interested in spices from Asia, they used spices to help preserve food during winter.

What did Vasco de Gama do before any other European explorer?

He successfully reached India by ship

Which of the following was Not an effect of the line of demarcation between Spain and Portugal

Prince Henry the navigator explored the African Coast

What two countries dominated trade during the Age of Exploration?

Spain or Portugal

Why did the explorers travel by sea, rather than land, to reach Asia?

The Ottoman turks prevented people from passing through their land

Which statement about life at sea during the Age of Exploration is true?

The captain was the highest ranking person on the shop

The phrase "glory, gold, God is often used to describe the age of Exploration- explain by finishing the following sentence

The word GOLD is one of the reasons Europeans set out for foreign lands bc it explains that they wanted to find wealth in foreign lands.

Which of the following goods shared in the Columbian exchange came from the Americas?

chocolate

Give on example of a new advancement that helped Europeans Actually do the exploring?

cartography - they needed maps to find their way around Europe, cartography is the science and art of making maps.

plants brought to the Americas from Europe

coffee, wheat, bananas, sugar cane, apples, onion, olive, citrus fruits, grape, rice, barley, oats, peaches, pears

Where is that food from?

corn - NW tomato - NW cow - OW peppers - NW rice - OW chicken - OW chocolate - NW avocado - NW bread/wheat - OW

plants brought to Europe from the Americas

corn, tomatoes, cocoa, peanuts, tobacco, vanilla, beans, pineapple, quinne, pumpkin, squash, sweet potato, avocado, peppers,

Why did Christopher Columbus think he had landed in India?

he underestimated the distance around the world

animals brought to the Americas from Europe

horses, sheep cattle, chicken, pigs, honeybee

name one of the 2 reasons European countries began to explore in the 1400.

motives, knowledge or technology

Marco Polo influenced the Age of Exploration by

returning with valuable silks, teas and spices from Asia

Circumnavigation means to

travel completely around something, such as the globe

animals brought to Europe from the Americas

turkey, red fox, grey squirrels, Canada geese