Age of Exploration Questions Part 1

1. What were the motives of European explorers?
What were the motives of European monarchs?
2. What European country led the Age of Exploration?
3. What monarch sponsors many of these ventures?
4. What explorer is famous for being among the first to bring back accounts from Asia?
5. What inventions allowed for the age of exploration? Which reached Europe through cultural diffusion?
6. What cities were among the first trading ports to be established?
7. Describe the exploration of the Americas.
8. Define colony.
9. Define mercantilism.
10. Define favorable balance of trade.
11. Define imperialism.
12. Define colonialism.
13. What was the Line of Demarcation?
14. What was the Treaty of Tordesillas? Who was involved?
15. People to know - John Cabot, Amerigo Vespucci, Magellan, Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Bartholomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, Vasco de Balboa, Juan Ponce de Leon, Jacques Cartier, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, Henry Hudson.
16. In terms of attitude regarding people, land, and resources what was the difference between the major countries exploring "new lands"? (Spain, England, France, Portugal)

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