Historical Setting for Exploration
Which factor primarily drove European exploration in the 1400s?
What is the desire for trade and resources?
Most educated Renaissance men believed the world was:
What is round?
Which resource was NOT a primary reason for exploration?
What is exotic animals?
Caravel ships were advantageous because they
What is "could carry more cargo and navigate easily"?
Early Portuguese explorers focused on establishing trade along:
What is "Western Africa’s coast"?
Who were the earliest known Europeans to reach the Americas?
Who are the Vikings?
The astrolabe helped sailors to calculate:
What is latitude?
Which was a major motivation for Europeans to establish new trade routes?
What is "direct control over Asian trade"?
What innovation allowed ships to fire through the sides?
What is side-mounted cannons?
Which port was a key early Portuguese trading post in Africa?
What is "Sao Jorge da Mina"?
Marco Polo’s travels influenced European exploration because he:
What is "claimed China could be reached by water"?
What navigational tool, first used by the Chinese, provided sailors with reliable direction?
What is the compass?
Missionaries primarily accompanied explorers to:
What is "spread Christianity"?
The compass was significant to explorers because:
What is "it always showed direction"?
Who rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1488?
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
The Crusades influenced European exploration by:
What is "introducing Europeans to Eastern goods"
Which type of sail allowed for better navigation regardless of wind direction?
What is the lateen sail?
Which nation initiated the Age of Exploration?
What is Portugal?
The Fra Mauro map noted:
What is "Africa could be circumnavigated"?
Vasco da Gama reached which country by sea?
What is India?
Why were overland routes to the East considered too expensive?
What is "they were slow and costly due to middlemen"?
The Ptolemaic map suggested that:
What is "the circumference of the earth was very large"?
Prince Henry the Navigator’s primary motivation included:
What is "wealth and religion"?
Portolan maps were especially useful for:
What is "showing coastlines and harbors"?
European traders in the East primarily desired:
What are silk, spices, and porcelain?