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Ch.2 Review
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Review early exploration and colonization
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In the 1500s, what was the main thing that European explorers were searching for, even more than gold?
water-route to Asia
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What 3 words can help us remember what motivated European countries to explore?
God, Gold, Glory
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Which 2 countries led the search for a water-route around Africa, to Asia in the 1400s?
Portugal and Spain
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What did Prince Henry do to help Portugal's explorers?
He started a school for explorers.
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Which 2 Portuguese explorers found the southern tip of Africa and then continued on to reach Asia?
Dias and DaGama
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Who lived in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans?
Native American tribes
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Who sponsored the voyages of Christopher Columbus? (person and country)
Queen Isabella of Spain
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What do we call the gradual blending of the Old World and the New World that began when Columbus reached North America?
Columbian Exchange
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What was the name of the line, drawn by the Pope, to settle land disputes between Portugal and Spain?
LIne of Demarcation
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Name the treaty that moved the Pope's line farther west to give Portugal more land.
Treaty of Tordesillas
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Which explorer proved that Columbus had not reached Asia, but had found new land?
Amerigo Vespucci
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Which explorer was the first European to view the Pacific Ocean from the Americas?
Balboa
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Which explorer first circumnavigated the Earth? (well, almost)
Magellan
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Which word refers to Spanish explorers who came to the Americas to conquer and colonize?
conquistadors
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Which 2 Native empires were conquered by Cortez and Pizarro?
Aztec and Inca
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There were 3 main reasons why Spain was able to conquer Native American empires. Name 2.
powerful weapons, European diseases, animals
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