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Interesting Links - Great Discoveries and the New World

Interesting Links:

  • Reconstrucción de Tenochtitlan. Link

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Questions Unit 8: Geographical Discoveries

1) Why were the Europeans forced to find a new route to Asia? (1.1.)

2) What were the materials imported from Asia? (1.1.)

3) What technical advances allowed the Europeans explorers to sail further and better? (1.1)

4) Who were the first explorers that started the expeditions and what two routes did they use? (1.2.)

5) Who was the first Portuguese that arrived to India, when did he arrive and to what city did he arrive? (1.2. and map).

6) Who discovered America? Where did he want to go and where did he finally arrive to? (2.1.)

7) What is the Treaty of Tordesillas and what did it establish? (page 115)

8) What were the main discoveries of the following people?

  • Vasco Núñez de Balboa
  • Amerigo Vespucci
  • Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano

9) What were civilizations that we found in the following areas?

  • Central America
  • Valley of Mexico
  • High Plateaus of the Andes

10) Why is Hernán Cortés so famous; what did he do?

11) Why is Pizarro so famous; what did he do?

12) What two administrative areas were established in America?

13) What is a criollo?