Age of Exploration Flashcards
(28 cards)
Many European explorers were hoping to find gold and other precious metals. What are precious metals?
Metals that are rare and worth a lot of money.
Which of the following is NOT a precious metal? Gold, silver, platinum, and aluminum
aluminum
Things that are scarce tend to be expensive. What is scarce?
hard to find
In ancient times some spices were worth their weight in gold.
True
Why were spices so much more expensive five hundred years ago?
The world wasn’t as connected and spices were hard to transport.
Why can’t peppercorns be grown in Europe?
Peppercorns only grow in warm, wet places like India.
Spices had to be imported to Europe from faraway places. What is imported?
brought in
Why were very few oldest sons explorers?
The oldest son would inherit all of the father’s land and money.
Who becomes the new king when a king dies?
oldest son
What is the only way a daughter of a king could become a queen?
She could only become queen if she had no brothers.
What does primo mean?
first
What is the term that describes how only the first born son inherits everything from the parents?
primogeniture
What does primogeniture mean?
first born
What does geniture mean?
born
Why did the law of primogeniture make sense 500 years ago?
If the land keeps getting split, eventually each child would get less and less land making the family less important in stature.
Why did so many second sons become explorers?
They had to seek out other ways of getting fortunes since their oldest brother gets the entire inheritance.
What Italian made a map of the world in 1474 where he drew half of the map as he imagined it to be.
Paolo Toscanelli
Why did Christopher Columbus think that he had found the Indes?
Tuscanelli’s map was wrong.
Christopher Columbus set out to find someone to pay for his voyage. What is a voyage?
A trip, usually on the ocean or space.
Who did Christopher Columbus convince to fund his exploration?
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
What country did King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella rule?
Spain
What does Toscanelli’s map drawn over the real map show us?
Why Columbus thought he had reached the Indes.
Who did Toscanelli send his map to first?
The King of Portugal
Where did Europeans get their information about China?
Stories about the travels of Marco Polo
