1. Age of Exploration Video Answer Key
Aim: Who contributed to the Age of Exploration?

2. 1. The Renaissance led to a burst of interest in
Geography, anatomy, astronomy, trade, and invention
2. European trade was restricted with Asia because of
control of trade on the Silk Road by Middle Eastern nations
and Italy
3. In the early 1400s Spain and Portugal searched for new routes to Asia.
Sea

3. Prince Henry the Navigator Christopher Columbus
4. How did each of the following men increase the knowledge of navigation and geography in the 1400s and 1500s
Prince Henry the Navigator 
Christopher Columbus 
Ferdinand Magellan 
Amerigo Vespucci 
Bartholomeu Dias 
Vasco Da Gama
Established the 1st Navigation school
teaching use of new technologies the
astrolabe and caraval
1st to sail west across the Atlantic to reach
the Far East
1st to travel circumnavigate (sail completely around)
the world, proving it was round
Cartographer (map maker) who was the
1st to recognize the New World was not Asia
1st to reach the Southern tip of Africa
1st to round the Southern tip of Africa and sail
to India

4. Positive: Brought new ideas, cultures, plants, and animals
5. List some of the major changes, both positive and negative,
that European colonization of the New World brought about.
Positive: Brought new ideas, cultures, plants, and animals
Negative: % of Native Americans died of disease
6. Identify the attitudes that gave rise to the European trade in African slaves.
Europeans were ethnocentric, believing themselves to be superior to African Slaves