Age of Exploration Study GuideLearning Target 1: I can summarize early Viking and Portuguese Explorations. SS-5.2.1 & SS-8-4.1.1

1. Who were the first Europeans to visit the Americas?

2. What prevented Viking settlement in North America?

3. Describe 3 Portuguese sailing advancements EXCEPT:a. b. c.

4. What two products were Europeans interested in trading in Asia?

5. Bartholomeu Dias sailed for the Portuguese and was able to reach the southern tip of Africa. What prevented him from sailing on to Asia?

6. This Portuguese navigator found Asia by sailing around Africa.

Learning Target 2: I can evaluate Christopher Columbus’s contributions to the discovery of the New World. SS-5.2.1 & SS-8-4.1.1

7. How many voyages did Columbus make to the New World?

8. Columbus believed that he had landed in what area?

9. Who was America named after?

10. Ferdinand Magellan was the first to circumnavigate the globe. What does the word circumnavigate mean?

11. Name Columbus’s 3 ships:

12. Who helped discover America was in fact a New World?

Learning Target 3: I can analyze how the Columbian Exchange led to interdependence between Europe and the Americas. SS-8-3.4.2 & SS-8-3.4.3

13. What effect does specialization have on productivity?

14. What term is given to countries relying on each other for their needs?

15. What did Europe specialize in?

16. What did America specialize in?

Learning Target 4: I can explain how the Spanish explored and colonized the Americas. SS-5.2.1 & SS-8-4.4.2

17. Hernan Cortes

18. Ponce de Leon

19. Francisco Pizarro

20. Why were the Spanish conquistadors so successful, despite being outnumbered?

21. The map above illustrates what country’s colonies in the Americas?

22. The Spanish explored what part of the present day US?

Learning Target 5: I can describe how the English and French explored and colonized North America. SS-5.2.1 & SS-8-4.4.2

23. Describe the Northwest Passage.

24. Whose voyage permitted the English to lay claim to land in North America?

25. What country was able to lay claim to land in much of Canada and along the Mississippi River?

26. Why did the colony of Roanoke fail?

27. Whose voyage first permitted the French to lay claim to land in North America?

28. What small towns were established by the French along the Mississippi River

Learning Target 6: I can assess why African slaves were forced to work in the colonies. SS-5.2.1 & SS-8-4.4.2

29. What disease killed many Native Americans after European arrival?

30. What two crops were most important to settlement in the Americas?

31. What is this a picture of?

32. What was the Middle Passage?

33. Why were Africans a better choice than natives as slaves

34. What is a plantation?