Causes For Exploration 1
Causes For Exploration 2
The Portuguese
The Spanish
Vocab
100
How did the Crusades get Europeans interested in exploration?
It introduced them to Asian goods
100
What was Marco Polo famous for doing?
For being one of the few Europeans to make it to China and back again and then writing a book about his travels
100
What did Bartholomeu Dias do?
He discovered and rounded the Cape of Good Hope
100
Why, until Christopher Columbus, has Spain not done any exploring?
Because they had been fighting a war and couldn't spare the time or money.
100
Pilgrimage
A journey to a holy place?
200
What were 3 Asian goods that the Europeans especially wanted?
Sugar, spices, silk, porcelain
200
Name 3 new pieces of technology that allowed the Europeans to begin searching for a sea route to Asia?
Stern rudders, triangular sails, compass, astrolabe
200
What did Vasco da Gama do?
He was the first European to make it to India by boat?
200
What was Christopher Columbus's new idea for getting to Asia, and why did his idea end up being wrong?
He wanted to sail westward and he thought the world was smaller than it actually is.
200
Renaissance
Rebirth
300
Who made the classical works and why were they important to the Europeans in the 1400s?
The Greeks and the Romans; because it helped them re-learn old knowledge about the world
300
Why did the Europeans go on a Crusade?
To retake Israel (the Holy Land) from the Muslims
300
What did Pedro Alvarez Cabral do?
He reached South America and claimed Brazil for the Portuguese.
300
Where did Columbus think he landed in 1492 and where had he actually landed?
India; the Bahamas
300
Classical
Ancient Greek and Roman works
400
Why was it hard (especially after the 1400s) for the Europeans go overland to Asia to get the Asian goods?
The journey was very long and dangerous because the Arabs and Turks would attack them on the way
400
What was Prince Henry the Navigator famous for?
He brought together astronomers, geographers, and mathematicians, with sailors and shipbuilders to share knowledge
400
What did Amerigo Vespucci do that made him famous?
He mapped out part of South America and decided that it was a new continent and not Asia
400
What did Ferdinand Magellan and his crew do?
They circumnavigated the world.
400
Technology
The use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes
500
Circumnavigate
To sail completely around the world
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