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Age of Exploration Study Guide Key terms Marco Polo Ptolemy Zheng He Ibn Battuta Prince Henry the Navigator Bartholomeu Dias Vasco da Gama Christopher Columbus Tainos Columbian Exchange Treaty of Tordesillas Ferdinand Magellan Amerigo Vespucci Vasco Nunez de Balboa Hernan Cortez Montezuma Incan Empire Aztec Empire Atahualpa Giovanni Caboto Francis Drake John Hawkins Martin Frobisher Jacques Cartier Review questions 1. Who was the admiral of the largest fleet in the 15th century? 2. Why did Europeans begin to make many voyages of exploration? 3. Which was the first European nation to establish trading posts in Africa, South America, India and South East Asia? 4. Who was the first Portuguese sailor to round the tip of Africa? 5. Who was the first Portuguese sailor to sail east to India? 6. What new tools helped advance navigation and exploration? 7. Why did Columbus sail westward across the Atlantic Ocean? 8. Where did Columbus think he was when he landed in the Caribbean? 9. How were the first people that Columbus met in the Caribbean? 10. On which island did Columbus establish his first colony? 11. How many people were living in the Caribbean in 1492? 12. How many were left in 1514, and why did so many people die? 13. What was the “Columbian Exchange”? 14. Which new foods were introduced to Europe? 15. Which countries did the Spanish conquer? 16. What was the Treaty of Tordesillas and which countries did it divide the world between? 17. Who was the first explorer to lead an expedition around the world? 18. Who were the continents of North and South America named after? 19. What were the two purposes of the Spanish conquistadors in exploring the Americas? 20. What were the Spanish adventurers searching for? 21. Why did Montezuma welcome Hernan Cortez into Tenochtitlan? 22. How did Hernan Cortez conquer the Aztec Empire? 23. What was the effect of the Spanish conquest of the peoples of the Americas? 24. What was the effect of the conquest on Spain? 25. Who were the Sea Dogs and why were they knighted?
