1. Traders, Explorers and Colonists Answers
Trade Between Europe and Asia
Spices
Preserve food and improve its flavor
Genoa and Venice
A new route to Asia
Leaders in Exploration
Madeira, Azores and Canary Islands
Prince Henry the Navigator
1488; Cape of Good Hope
Vasco da Gama

2. Traders, Explorers and Colonists…Continued
Europe Enters a New Age
Santa Maria, Pinta and Nina
Caribbean Island
18 months
Sail completely around the world
Newfoundland in Canada
The Outcomes of Exploration
14) The practice of one country controlling the government and economy of another country or territory
Missionaries
Smallpox, Malaria, Measles
The Plague

3. Trade Between Europe and Asia
Assignment # _____ Name: ________________ Date: _________________ Period: ________________ Traders, Explorers and Colonists
Directions: Read pages in the GREEN Textbook. Write the following questions and statements on to notebook paper. On a separate sheet, write the correct answers. Write the TITLES on to both the questions and answer sheets. Copy these directions.
Trade Between Europe and Asia
List the most important item traded at this time.
Why would people use spices?
Who controlled the spice trade and where were they from?
In the 15th century, Europeans were searching for this.

4. Leaders in Exploration
These three (3) islands were where Portuguese explorers navigated.
Who decided to send explorers farther down the coast of Africa in the 1400’s?
When did Bartolomeu Dias round the southern tip of Africa and what did he name it?
This was the first explorer to discover a sea route to Asia.
Europe Enters a New Age
Name the three(3) sips Columbus used in 1492.
Instead of Asia, where did Columbus land?
How long did Magellan and his crew spend at sea?

5. The Outcomes of Exploration
Define “Circumnavigate.”
Where did Cabot and his crew land?
The Outcomes of Exploration
Define “Imperialism.”
Who was sent to convert conquered people’s to Christianity?
List the three (3) diseases that explorers and colonists carried with them.
The workforce in Portugal had been reduced by this disease.