Age of Exploration Causes
Major cause of Age of Exploration
What is to find a trade Route to Asia/India?
The magnetic compass always points ...
What is 'North'?
North and South America are named for this explorer
Amerigo Vespucci
The explorer credited with discovering the "New World"
Christopher Columbus
My crew was the first to circumnavigate the earth
Ferdinand Magellan
First country to start the exploration
What is Portugal?
To sail around the world
Circumnavigate
Who is credited with being the first European to see the Pacific Ocean?
Vasco de Nunez Balboa
Where did Columbus think he landed?
India
Where was Ferdinand Magellan killed by natives?
the Philippines
The three motivations reasons for Europeans to explore during the Age of Exploration
To find gold, explore (find new trade routes) and spread Christianity. (Gold, God, Glory)
This was named after Spanish explorer, and is the exchange plants, animals, culture, people, technology, DISEASES, and ideas between the new world, and the Old World .
What is the Colombian exchange?
Vespucci was credited with exploring the eastern coast of South America and discovering this river.
Amazon
Columbus claimed the lands he found for what country?
Spain
The Straits of .........., is a navigable sea route in southern Chile separating .
Magellan
Europeans brought back this from India and the Indies
Spices
What new type of ship did the explorers use to travel far distances?
Caravel
Vespucci was the first to realize that South America was a new continent, and not part of...
Asia
What happened when the King and Queen of Spain heard that Columbus was a very cruel and unfair governer of Hispanola?
What valuable information did Magellan's voyage provide about the earth?
It confirmed that the earth is a sphere, contributed to new astrological charts of the southern hemisphere.
When Europeans discovered new land or oceans, what did they do?
Claimed it for their home country
Name given to a person who actually draws or produces maps
Who is a 'cartographer'?
He was the Governor of Castilla de Oro, Balboa stowed away on one of his ships, married his daughter, and was later executed by his orders.
Pedrarias
Christopher Columbus first landed here
Where is Hispaniola( present day Haiti and Dominica Republic?
Magellan's voyage started with 5 ships and 270 men... How many completed the voyage?
18 men and 1 ship
Two countries battling it out for exploration supremecy?
Spain and Portugal
This was a navigational tool used by sailors to determine their latitude at sea by measuring the angle between the horizon and the North Star or the sun.
What is an Astrolabe?
Balboa is credited with establishing the first permanent European settlement in the New World, what was it called?
Darien
Name of the settlement established by Columbus?
La Isabela
Fairly early in Magellan's voyage, there was a mutiny. What was the cause, and how did it turn out?
Spanish crew distrusted a Portuguese captain. @ mutineers were killed, 2 more were marooned.