1. USI.4 Review Age of Discovery

2. Name the five principle explorers we have studied and for what country did they explore ?
Fernando Coronado – Spain
John Cabot – England
Robert LaSalle – France
Samuel De Champlain – France
Henry Hudson – Netherlands and England

3. Who explored the Mississippi River Valley for France?
Robert De La Salle

4. What were five areas of conflict between Native Americans and Europeans?
Land
Competition for trade
Differences in cultures
Disease
Language difference

5. Who explored the southwestern United States for Spain?
Francisco Coronado

6. What trading post did Samuel De Champlain found for France in Canada?
Quebec

7. Who was the Italian explorer who sailed for England?
John Cabot

8. Where are Ghana, Mali, and Songhai located?
Western Africa
South of the Sahara
Near the Niger River

9. Who conquers and enslaved American Indians during early European exploration?
Spanish

10. Technologies (weapons and farm tools) Trade Crops
What were three areas of cooperation between the Native Americans and Europeans?
Technologies (weapons and farm tools)
Trade
Crops

11. What were four obstacles that Europeans faced during the Age of Discovery?
Poor maps and navigational tools
Starvation and disease
Fear of the unknown
Lack of supplies

12. Who was the first European to see the Colorado River and Grand Canyon?
Francisco Coronado

13. Merchants had heard the stories of his trip along the Silk Road to Asia’s Mongol Empire and its riches of beautiful silk and spices that could not be found in Europe
Marco Polo

14. What Englishman searched for a “Northwest Passage” to India but was marooned by his men after they revolted against him?
Henry Hudson

15. Which country built trading posts to trade with American Indians?
France

16. What country first brought Christianity to the New World?
Spain

17. Prince Henry the Navigator
Who founded a school of navigation in Portugal that is responsible for the Age of Discovery?
Prince Henry the Navigator

18. At the beginning of the Age of Discovery, what country began to explore the coasts of West Africa and trade with the people there?
Portugal

19. Which explorer first looked for a northern route to Asia?
John Cabot

20. What three things motivated Europeans to explore the world?
Trade (Economic)
Spread Christianity (Religion)
Gain new lands (Power)

21. What was the American Indians belief about property?
Believed that land was to be shared and used but not owned

22. What were three accomplishments that Europeans made during the Age of Discovery?
New Exchanges (Columbian Exchange with the New and Old World)
New ships and navigational tools
Founding of New Lands for their country

23. What did the American Indians do to help the new European settlers?
Taught them farming techniques to survive

24. What caused the sudden interest of the European powers wanting to explore and trade?
Stories of Marco Polo
New tools for navigation
Closing of the Silk Road

25. What were some new tools for navigation that resulted in the Age of Discovery?
Prince Henry’s School of Navigation
Astrolabe
Lateen sail
New types of ships (Carrack and caravel)

26. What two events caused the Silk Road to be closed?
As a result of the Black Death, international trade plummeted with thousands dying and many more fleeing their lands
Travel along the Silk Road became dangerous as the result of battles between Islamic and Christian kings

27. Which European group learned farming techniques from American Indians and traded goods for food with the American Indians?
English

28. Who explored southeastern Canada for the French?
Samuel De Champlain

29. Who explored the east coast of the United States and founded a bay in Canada and the river that bears his name in New York?
Henry Hudson

30. What are two ways the Native Americans cooperated with Europeans on their arrival?
Taught farming techniques to the European settlers who would have starved to death without the Indian’s help
Traded to get European weapons and metal farm tools

31. What did the Spanish do to the Native Americans?
Conquered and enslaved them
Brought Christianity to the New World.
Carried European diseases that killed millions of them.

32. Robert De La Salle Louisiana
Who claimed all the land from the Appalachians to the Rocky Mountains for France and what was this land called by this explorer?
Robert De La Salle
Louisiana

33. Why were the Portuguese interested in West Africa?
They wanted to trade with the West Africans for gold and salt

34. What did the French trade with the American Indians?
furs

35. Who explored eastern Canada and founded the island of Newfoundland?
John Cabot

36. French trading posts eventually become the cities of …
Quebec
Montreal
Detroit
St. Louis
New Orleans

37. What countries in Europe took part in Exploration of the World during the Age of Discovery?

38. Denmark/Norway
Italian States
Portugal
Spain
England
France
Netherlands (Holland)
Sweden