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What two Italian city-states pioneered early exploration efforts?

Venice and Genoa

What products of the orient attracted Europeans to exploration?

Luxury goods, specifically spices and silk

What were the five main European exploratory powers?

Portugal, England, Spain, France, and Holland

What two Atlantic island groups were the first two Portuguese settlements?

Madeira and Azores

What is the name of the Portuguese prince who encouraged early exploration?

Prince Henry

Who was the Portuguese captain that was the first to round the tip of Africa?

Bortolomeu Dias

Who was the Portuguese captain who claimed Brazil?

Pedro Cabral

What treaty divided the globe between Spain and Portugal?

Treaty of Tordesillas

What port was the gateway to the Spice Islands?

Malacca

Who was the Spanish conquistador that was the first to sight the Pacific Ocean?

Columbus

Who was the Spanish conquistador who explored and named Florida?

Ponce de Leon

Who was the Spanish conquistador that explored North America and found no gold?

Coronado

Who was the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas?

Pizarro

What is the term for the right to enslave the Native Americans in the Spanish colonies?

Encomienda system

What is the term for the divisions of the Spanish territories in the new world?

Viceroyalties

Who was the Spanish explorer who landed in the Philippines and claimed them for Spain?

Ferdinand Magellan

Who was the Spanish explorer who fought for the rights of the Native Americans?

Bartholomé de las Casas

What were the three main orders of Spanish missionary groups?

Dominicans, Augustinians, Franciscans

What were the first two successful English colonies in the new world?

Virginia and Massachusetts

Which English colony was founded by the Quakers?

Pennsylvania

Which English colony was founded originally as a haven for Catholics?

Maryland

Which English colony was originally founded as a prison settlement?

Georgia

What were the two main English sugar islands in the Caribbean?

Barbados and Jamaica

What were the two English slavery bases in Africa?

Sierra Leone and Gambia

What is the name of the French colony in Canada?

New France

What are the two main French settlements in Canada?

Montreal and Quebec

Who was the French explorer that charted the Mississippi River?

La Salle

Who was the French explorer known as the father of French settlement in Canada?

Jacques Cartier

What trade dominated the economy of French Canada?

Fur trade

What was the main French sugar colony in the Caribbean?

Haiti

What was the chief Dutch port in the Netherlands?

Holland

What were the Dutch settlers called in Cape Town?

Boers

What island in Indonesia became the center of Dutch power in the spice Islands?

Java

What are the three Dutch island colonies in the Caribbean?

Aruba, St. Maarten, St. Eustatius

The Dutch settled in what is now New York and what other two present U.S. states?

Delaware and New Jersey

What is the Dutch settlement in northern South America called?

Suriname

The Dutch were the only Europeans allowed to settle in what Asian nation in the 1600s?

Japan

What is the Portuguese settlement in south China called?

Macau

What do the Portuguese call Taiwan in the 1600s?

Formosa

What modern-day nation is the Dutch colony of Ceylon in the 1600s?

Sri Lanka

What is Russia's only colony outside of Eurasia?

Alaska