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Age of Exploration Study Guide
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Know which explorer’s travels to Asia started the Age of Exploration
Marco Polo
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Know the types of tools explorers used
Compass, astrolabe, sextant, “knots,” hourglass
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Know which explorer was a great leader in Portuguese exploration in the 1400s
Prince Henry the Navigator
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Know what Bartolomeu Dias discovered
The Cape of Good Hope
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Know where Vasco da Gama explored
Eastern coast of Africa, Cape of Good Hope to India
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Know what Pedro Alvares Cabral discovered
Brazil
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Know what Christopher Columbus discovered
The Bahamas
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Know where the word Indian came from
Columbus thought he was in the Indies (Spice Islands) and called the natives Indians
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Be able to draw and define the Treaty of Tordesillas
An imaginary line drawn by the Pope to separate the New World between Spain and Portugal
Spain acquired more land than Portugal
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Know the Spanish missionary who tried to help Indians
de las Casas
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Know where Magellan explored
Argentina, Chile, Guam, Philippines, the Pacific Ocean
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Know the Strait of Magellan
Southern tip of South America
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Know the first English colony in North America
Roanoke Island
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Know the first permanent English colony in North America
Jamestown, Virginia
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Know what Jacques Cartier’s big mistake was
He didn’t realize that the Gulf of the St. Lawrence led to a great river
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Know what land Jacques Cartier claimed for France
Canada and Montreal– all the land he could see he claimed for France
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Know what kind of trade got France into North America
The fur trade – specifically beaver fur
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Know what Giovanni da Verrazano accomplished
He was the first person to sail up the Atlantic Coast of North America
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Know which explorer first reached the Mississippi River
Marquette and Jolliet
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Know the accomplishments of Henry Hudson
He sailed up a river into New York and found a huge inland sea in Canada
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Know what the Middle Passage and be able to describe the journey
Was a slave’s trip over from Africa/Europe to the New World it was inhuman, terrifying, disgraceful
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archipelago – a chain of islands
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rain shadow – an area that gets less rain because it’s on the protected side of a mountain
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monopoly – complete control of selling a product or service
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infidel – someone who does not believe in what is considered the true religion
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navigation – traveling by ship from one place to another
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hull – the sides and bottom of a boat
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Moor – a North African follower of Islam
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league – an old measurement of distance roughly equal to 3 miles
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mutiny – a rebellion against a leader such as a ship’s captain
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Royal Standard – a monarch’s flag
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encomienda – a land grant given to Spanish settlers
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strait – a narrow waterway connecting two bodies of water
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circumnavigate – to travel completely around something (such as the earth), by water
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joint-stock company – a company that raises money by selling shares or interest in the company in the form of
stock
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cartographer– a mapmaker
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growing season – the days available to plant and harvest crops
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portage – to carry a canoe and supplies overland from one waterway to another
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charter – a document issued by an authority giving a group certain rights
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hold – the interior of a ship below deck
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indentured servant – a person who owes an employer a certain amount of work for a certain amount of time
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scurvy – a disease caused by a lack of Vitamin C, which is found in fresh fruits and vegetables