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Exploration UnitStudy Guide Answers
• 1. Renaissance, Europe
• 2. spices, silk, gems, technology
• 3. Silk Road
took a long time to travel
very expensive
dangerous; thieves and bandits
• 4. spices, fame and glory, spread,
religion, colonies
• 5. caravel, better maps, compass,
astrolabe
• 6. Portugal
• 7. Prince Henry
mapmakers, astronomers, and
ship builders
• 8. 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.
• 9. Spain, Africa, Atlantic, Asia
• 10. 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 )
• 11. Amerigo disagreed with Columbus
and argued that new continents
were discovered.
The Americas were named in his
honor.
• 12. 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. )
• 13. Cabot sailed in 1497 for England.
Canada claimed it for England
• 14. Verrazano sailed in 1524 for France.
of U.S. , more detailed maps
• 15. the Netherlands and England
a northern sea route connecting the
Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
• 16. trade increased
inventions and advances
new lands discovered and settled
• 17. Tough conditions on the boats
native people were not all friendly
slave trade begins
• 18. trade of goods, ideas, and cultures
• 19. Old- Europe, Africa, and Asia
New- North and South America
• 20.
culture- religions & languages
food & animals exchanged
diseases- wiped out millions of
Native Americans
• 21.
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