Famous Explorers
The explorer that sailed into the Bahamas Islands in 1492 on three ships. He believed he had landed in India.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Use of this technology allowed Europeans to subdue and overtake indigenous peoples around the world.
What is anything to do with guns?
Continent where the Strait of Magellan is located. This is where Ferdinand Magellan left the Atlantic Ocean and entered the Pacific Ocean.
What is South America?
A part of the Columbian Exchange, this part of the world was where Europeans were trying to colonize indigenous peoples.
What is the New World?
A Portuguese navigator, he commanded an expedition that was the first to travel across the world. Unfortunately, he died about halfway through its journey.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Navigational instrument that helped explorers that shows direction relative to the geographic cardinal directions
What is a compass?
Continent where the Cape of Good Hope is located. A Portuguese explorer became the first European to reach this destination in 1488.
What is Africa?
Part of the Triangular Trade in which Africans were brought from Africa to the Americas as slaves.
What is the Middle Passage?
Portuguese prince who rarely participated in explorations. He paid for many expeditions from Portugal to the west coast of Africa, and was responsible for Portugal’s influence in the Age of Discovery.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
The use of these helped explorers sail in any direction they chose and did not have to depend on the wind pushing at the back of the sails.
What are triangular sails?
Pedro Alvares Cabral supposedly found the continent of South America by accident. This modern-day country is where he landed. He claimed this land for Portugal.
What is Brazil?
Name given to Europe, Africa, and Asia...this name was NOT given because everyone was elderly.
What is the Old World?
His success in finding an all-water route to Asia proved to be one of the more instrumental moments in the history of navigation. He subsequently made two other voyages to India, and was appointed as Portuguese viceroy in India in 1524.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
The use of these materials helped European explorers' knowledge of the rest of the world.
What are maps?
This ocean was called Pacifico by a Portuguese explorer who was sailing around South America to the Spice Islands.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Occurring in 1453, this was a HUGE reason Europeans began having an interest in exploring and colonizing other parts of the world.
What is the conquering of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire?
The first European to sail around the tip of Africa.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
A small, highly maneuverable sailing ship developed in the 15th century by the Portuguese to explore along the West African coast and into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is a caravel?
The 1494 treaty that divided the world's colonial possessions between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
The Three G's.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?