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Age of Exploration Jeopardy Game Answers
Motives/Means
1. What commodity encouraged early European exploration?
 Spices
2. What were the 3 main motives for European exploration of the New World?
 God, Gold, Glory
3. What explorer first demonstrated that spices could be carried as cargo from Asia and sold for
tremendous profit?
 Vasco de Gama
4. From what people/civilization did the Europeans get the technology necessary to undertake open
ocean journeys?? And name 2 pieces of technology they began to use.
 From the Arab world.
They received charts / the compass / the astrolabe / triangle sails /
and new style of ships called "caravels"
5. What were the lasting impacts of explorers such as Columbus and others on the native
populations of the New World. Describe why this happened.
 Answers will vary: decimated populations based on disease, violence, oppression, slave labor,
conquistadors, encomiendas, etc
Explorers and Nations
1. Which explorer is credited with the first circumnavigation of the world?
 Ferdinand Magellan
2. After what explorer is our continent named? Spelling counts
 Amerigo Vespucci
3. What country did Christopher Columbus sail for?
 Spain
4. Name the 3 nations that were most heavily involved in the Spice trade in Southeast Asia
 Portugal, Spain, Dutch (Netherlands)
5. Why were the European nations able to undertake such long and expensive journeys into the
"New World?"
 Powerful central governments, wealthy monarchies, Renaissance curiousity, Arab technology
Triangle Trade
1. What three continents were involved in the triangle trade?
 the Americas, Africa, and Europe
2. Come to the board and draw a diagram of the triangle trade
 Europe---Africa----Americas---Europe
3. What the longest and most brutal journey of the triangle trade called?
 The Middle Passage
4. Describe the goods that were traded on the different legs of the Triangle Trade.
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 Europe to Africa=Guns, cloth, manufactured goods
 Africa to Americas=Slaves
 America to Europe=Gold, Sugar, Cotton
5. Describe the economic impact of the Triangle Trade on each of the regions involved: Europe,
Africa, and Americas
 Answers will vary
 Europe-becomes importers of raw goods and exporters of finished or manufactured goods
 Africa-stripped of cultural vitality through slavery
 Americas-simply produce the resources for the mother country---colonial relationship
Slave Trade
1. Why was slavery not new to Africa when the Europeans showed up?
 Slavery had been practiced in Africa for many years
2. What manufactured good from Europe really helped to set off the slave trade in Africa?
 Guns
3. How did Europeans convince, or force, one tribe to help them enslave neighboring tribes?
 By giving them guns. The tribe with the guns would be able to dominate the other tribes in
the area.
4. Describe how the countries on the interior of Africa (not on the West coast) were impacted by
slavery.
 They were not impacted. Most interior cultures remained intact as the Europeans did not
venture into the interior of the continent.
5. What were the reasons that Europeans chose to use Africans as slaves in the New World?
 Familiar with crops and plantation/farm work
 Did not know the land and would be less likely to escape
 Strong people
Spice Trade
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What region was the key to the Spice Trade?
 Southeast Asia
2. What 3 European countries were most heavily involved in the Spice Trade?
 Portuguese, English, Dutch
3. Why were the Dutch and English more successful than the Portuguese in Southeast Asia?
 They had more money and could set up more permanent forts/posts from which to sail
and resupply
4. Name 3 of the mainland states in Southeast Asia.
 Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma
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5. Why were the mainland states of Southeast Asia able to remain independent and resist European
influence while the islands and archipelagos fell under European power?
 The mainland states had well-defined central governments that were wealthy and
powerful. There was more of a sense of national unity and some even had powerful
armies to resist invasion.
Final Question
1. Who is the most important explorer you have learned about and why???
 Answers will vary and points will be awarded based on my evaluation of the quality of
the response!!