Unit 9 Lesson 3 – Voyages of Discovery Name ________________________
Targets
• Why Age of Exploration started
• Spice everyone wanted
Know these people……Marco Polo, Prince Henry, Vasco da Gama, Columbus,
Magellan, Queen Elizabeth I
Pages 593-596
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Desire ad Opportunity to Explore
1. What did everyone want from Asia in the 1400s? _______________________ Which countries sold/traded
it? ___________________________________________________________ What made everyone else
want to get if for themselves instead of from these guys? ______________________________________
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2. Name four advances that helped exploration, AND HOW each helped
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Portuguese and Spanish Explorations
3. Who found a sea route to Asia? ____________________________________________________
Reaching the Americas
4. Columbus believed he had sailed to this continent ___________________________ In reality, he had found
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5. Magellan’s crew sailed all the way around the world. What word can we use that means this?
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Conquest of the “New World”
7. What did the explorers want from the “New World?”
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8. What ended up killing most of the native people of the “New World?” ___________________________
Use the map on p. 594-595 to answer #9-11
9. What continent did all of the explorers come from? ________________________________
11. Name all who might have visited North America _______________________________________________
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Competing for Land and Wealth
14. Why was Spain mad at England? ____________________________________________________________
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15. How was England able to defeat the Spanish Armada?
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A New European Worldview
16. What was something new the Europeans learned about world geography from all of their explorations? ____
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