Vikings
Longship
This explorer traveled around and wrote about Asian culture. It inspired Europeans to travel themselves. He is most well known for the pool game.
Marco Polo
Columbus believed he reached this country, in reality he reached the American islands.
India
This system inspired men like Columbus to acquire as much land and wealth as possible.
Empire
List 3 specific things that were traded back and forth in the Columbian Exchange.
Pushed by wind.
This navigator was responsible for creating new schools for sailing and paid researches to explore/make maps
Henry
Columbus arrived to the Americas in this year.
1492
The King and Queen who sent Columbus on his journey were from this country.
Spain
This percentage of the Natives Columbus met died.
80%-90%
Vikings did not stay long in North America for this reason.
Native American attacks
Early explorers often used these natural things to navigate.
Sun, stars
Columbus thought he could turn the natives into these two things.
Slaves, Christians
Columbus' men did these awful things to the Natives (3 things)
The trade of food, disease, animals, and culture between Americans and the rest of the world was called this.
Columbian Exchange
Raiding, trading
Early explorers used new pieces of technology to track this. It helped them navigate to the correct places.
Latitude/longitude
Native Americans did this when they first met Columbus.
Traded everything they had.
The Tainos killed this many of Columbus' men after their first interactions.
39
Horse
Vikings traveled from this place. It was the current countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.
Scandinavia
What three motivations did the Portuguese (and other Europeans) have to explore the world.
Spread religion, buy from the source, buy Asian products
Columbus believed the Natives were this because they grabbed a sword by their hands.
Ignorant
Before Columbus discovered America, there was 1-3 million Indians, once he left, there were about this many left.
200
This Viking was the leader of the first European group to reach America.