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Exploration UnitStudy Guide Answers
• 1. Crusades, Pope Urban II,
Holy Land, Muslim Turks
• 2.
a) new inventions and innovations
b) expanded trade
c) growth of cities, end of feudalism
• 3. silk, spices, tea, cotton, sugar, gold
• 4. Silk Road
took a long time to travel
very expensive
dangerous; thieves and bandits
• 5.
Copernicus
•Heliocentric
(sun- centered)
Solar system
Galileo
•Telescope
(improved)
•Heliocentric
Solar system
•Rate of Falling
Objects
•Thermometer
Newton
•Calculus
•Optics
(colors study)
•Law of Gravity
• 6. Renaissance, Europe
• 7. spices
fame and glory
spread their religion
colonies
• 8. caravel, better maps, compass,
astrolabe
• 9. Portugal
• 10. Prince Henry
mapmakers, astronomers, and
ship builders
• 11. Dias sailed in 1488 for Portugal.
first to reach the southern tip of Africa.
• Da Gama sailed in 1498 for Portugal.
first to sail to Asia around Africa.
• Cabral sailed in 1500 for Portugal.
first to land in South America. Continued
on to sail to Asia.
• 12. Spain, Africa, Atlantic, Asia
• 13. Columbus sailed in 1492 for Spain.
goals- find a sea route to Asia.
plan- sail west into the Atlantic
results- landed in New World
(although unaware )
• 14. Amerigo disagreed with Columbus
and argued that new continents
were discovered.
The Americas were named in his
honor.
• 15. Magellan sailed in 1519 for Spain.
goals- find a sea route to Asia around
the New World.
plan- sail west into the Atlantic
results- the Pacific is a huge ocean
(18 crew members survived to
circumnavigate the globe. )
• 16. Cabot sailed in 1497 for England.
Canada claimed it for England
• 17. Verrazano sailed in 1524 for France.
of U.S. , more detailed maps
• 18. the Netherlands and England
a northern sea route connecting the
Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
• 19. trade increased
inventions and advances
new lands discovered and settled
• 20. Tough conditions on the boats
native people were not all friendly
slave trade begins