Vocabulary
Important People
Important People 2
Important Places
Other Important Info
100
This is the name for a king or queen.
What is a monarch?
100
This is the European who described the riches of China and made traders want to go to Asia.
Who is Marco Polo?
100
This group was the first known people to have visited the Americas.
Who are the Vikings?
100
This is the name of the southern most point of Africa.
What is Cape of Good Hope?
100
Which event came first: The first European school for training sailors or the trade route to Asia was closed?
What is the trade route to Asia was closed
200
This is the name for a small, round hill.
What is a knoll?
200
This is the Portuguese leader who ran a school for navigation.
Who is Prince Henry?
200
This is the Portuguese explorer who found the sea route to Asia by sailing around Africa.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
200
Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovered this body of water which helped to prove that Columbus had not reached Asia.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
200
Which event came first: Columbus receives support to sail to Asia or Amerigo Vespucci sails around the world?
What is Columbus receives support to sail to Asia?
300
This is what you call searching for the unknown.
What is exploration?
300
This is the European that made the first globe.
Who is Martin Behaim?
300
This is the leader of the first Europeans to visit the Americas.
Who is Leif Eriksson?
300
This is the name of the city that was captured by the Turks and stopped trade between Europe and Asia.
What is Constantinople?
300
Which event came first: Vasco Nunez de Balboa proves Columbus was wrong or Amerigo Vespucci concludes Columbus did not reach Asia?
What is Amerigo Vespucci concludes Columbus did not reach Asia?
400
This is the study of how to plan and control the course of a ship.
What is navigation?
400
This is the European who proved it was possible to reach Asia by sailing West from Europe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
400
This is the Italian explorer who figured out that Columbus had not reached Asia.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
400
This is the name of the first European settlement on the Americas.
What is Vinland?
400
List a few things that were wrong with Martin Behaim's first globe.
What is Africa was a wrong shape, Earth was much smaller than actually is, globe did not include Australia, Antarctica or Americas, easy to sail from Europe to Asia (shorter distance)
500
This is a decision or an idea reached by thoughtful study
What is a conclusion?
500
This is the Portuguese explorer who was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa.
Who is Bartholomeu Dias?
500
This is the Italian explorer who landed in present-day Newfoundland but told people he had found Cathay.
Who is Giovanni Caboto?
500
This is the native name for the land that Christopher Columbus landed on and claimed for Spain.
What is Guanahani?
500
List some of the changes that took place in Europe that made Europeans start exploring.
What is lands in Europe became independent countries, they built faster ships and a better compass
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