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What two Italian city states pioneered early exploration efforts? Venice, genoa
What products of the orient attracted Europeans to exploration? luxury goods: spices & silk
What were the five main European exploratory powers? Portugal, england, spain, france, holland
What two Atlantic island groups were the first two Portuguese settlements? Madeira and Azores
Name of the Portuguese prince who encouraged early exploration? Prince Henry
Portuguese captain who was the first to round the tip of Africa? Bortolomeu Dias
Portuguese captain who claimed Brazil? Pedro cabral
Treaty the divided the globe between Spain and Portugal? Treaty of tordesailles
Port that was the gateway to the Spice Islands? Malacca
Spanish conquistador who was the first to sight the Pacific Ocean? columbus
Spanish conquistador who explored and named Florida? Ponce de leon
Spanish conquistador who explored North America and found no gold? Coronado
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas? Pizarro
Term for the right to enslave the Native Americans in the Spanish colonies? Encomienda system
Term for the Divisions of the Spanish territories in the new world? Viceroyalties
Spanish explorer who landed in the Philippines and claimed them for Spain? Ferdinand Magellan
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
What English colony was founded by the Quakers? Pennsylvania
What English colony was founded originally as a haven for Catholics? Maryland
What 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
What French explorer charted the Mississippi River? La Salle
What French explorer was the father of French settlement in Canada? Jacques Cartier
What trade dominated French Canada's Economy? Fur
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