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| These improved inventions made it easier for people to explor far reaches of the world in the 1400's. | Better maps, the compass, better ship designs, the astrolabe |
| The writings of his adventures to the far east sparked a curiosity in Europeans to explore. | Marco Polo |
| These were the three main ambitions for Europeans to explore the world: | God, glory and gold |
| Very valuable item that Europeans wanted from the east: | spices |
| A situation when several investors pool their money together to fund an expedition or new colony to make money. | Joint Stock Company |
| This is a system of nations increasing their welath through trade with their colonies | mercanitilism |
| This is when a nation is exporting more than it imports: | Favorable balance of trade |
| This was one of the first European nations that started to explore to get to the east by sea: | Portugal |
| He was a Portuguese explorer who set up a school of exploration | Prince Henry |
| He was the first to go around Africa to the Indian Ocean: | Bartholamew Dias |
| He was the first to reach India by sea: | Vasco de Gama |
| Why Portugal eventually had to limit its explorations | It lacked the money and people to control large colonies |
| Columbus was from this country: | Italy |
| Columbus' voyages west were paid for by this country | Spain |
| Where Columbus was trying to get to by going west: | Asia (India) |
| Area that Columbus actually reached | The West Indies |
| Period when several "new" items were brought to and from the New World: | The Columbian Exchange |
| Two countries that began to have a rivalry for exploration in the late 1400's: | Spain and Portugal |
| This was an agreement between Spain and Portugal to divide the world in half: | Treaty of Tordesillas |
| Which country got what side in the Treaty? | Spain - West, Portugal - East |
| Explorer who proved that Columbus did not really reach Asia: | Amerigo Vespucci |
| Explorer who crossed the isthmus of Panama to see the Pacific for the first time. | Balboa |
| He was the first explorer who "9sort of) circumnavigated the earth: | Magellan - He was killed by natives in the Philippines but part of his crew got back to Portugal) |
| This term means to go around the earth: | circumnavigate |
