Age of Exploration Video Answer Key Aim: Who contributed to the Age of Exploration?

1. The Renaissance led to a burst of interest in Geography, anatomy, astronomy, trade, and invention 2. European trade was restricted with Asia because of control of trade on the Silk Road by Middle Eastern nations and Italy 3. In the early 1400s Spain and Portugal searched for new routes to Asia. Sea

Prince Henry the Navigator Christopher Columbus 4. How did each of the following men increase the knowledge of navigation and geography in the 1400s and 1500s Prince Henry the Navigator    Christopher Columbus  Ferdinand Magellan  Amerigo Vespucci  Bartholomeu Dias  Vasco Da Gama Established the 1st Navigation school teaching use of new technologies the astrolabe and caraval 1st to sail west across the Atlantic to reach the Far East 1st to travel circumnavigate (sail completely around) the world, proving it was round Cartographer (map maker) who was the 1st to recognize the New World was not Asia 1st to reach the Southern tip of Africa 1st to round the Southern tip of Africa and sail to India

Positive: Brought new ideas, cultures, plants, and animals 5. List some of the major changes, both positive and negative, that European colonization of the New World brought about. Positive: Brought new ideas, cultures, plants, and animals Negative: 80-90% of Native Americans died of disease 6. Identify the attitudes that gave rise to the European trade in African slaves. Europeans were ethnocentric, believing themselves to be superior to African Slaves