Age of Exploration Causes
First country to start the exploration
What is Portugal?
Europeans brought back...... from India
Spices
I am an explorer for Spain who searched for a shorter route to Asia and accidentally ended up in the Americas calling the Natives "Indians"
Who is 'Christopher Columbus'?
The Age of Exploration started from this continent
What is Europe?
The magnetic compass always points ...
What is 'North'?
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?
What is disease?
This explorer conquered the Aztecs.
Who is Cortes?
Where did Columbus think he landed?
India
The ocean explorers had to cross to get to the "New World"
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Major cause of Age of Exploration
What is to find a trade Route to Asia/India?
This was named after an Italian explorer, and is the exchange of plants, animals, culture, people, technology, DISEASES, and ideas between the New World and the Old World.
What is the Columbian exchange?
I was killed by natives in the Philippines when trying to sail around the world.
Ferdinand Magellan
This country was able to set up the most colonies in the New World
What is Spain?
He started the first school of navigation
This group was technically the first to arrive in North America, even before Columbus
The Vikings.
A series of trade routes connecting Europe and Asia
What is the Silk Road?
My crew was the first to sail around the world
Ferdinand Magellan
Who Discovered Brazil?
Pedro Álvares Cabral
What new type of ship did the explorers use to travel far distances?
Caravel
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)
Sailing around the world...
What is 'circumnavigate'?
He led the conquest of the Inca Empire in present-day Peru
What is Francisco Pizarro?
Christopher Columbus first landed here
What is Hispaniola (present day Haiti and Dominican Republic)?
Searched for the Fountain of Youth
Who is Ponce De Leon?
The trade routes between Africa, Europe and the Americas during the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Triangular Trade
This Explorer discovered Peru
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
A Portuguese explorer, was the first European to sail directly from Europe to India, opening a sea route to the lucrative spice trade in Asia.
Who is Vasco De Gama?
First Place that the Portuguese landed in Africa while trying to find a water route to India
Where is Morocco?
Oldest city in the United States, first founded by the Spanish
What is St. Augustine?
Who were the Spanish King and Queen that funded a voyage to the New World ?
What is King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
Term for the Americas during this time
What is the 'New World'?
Name of the modern-day country where the Aztecs lived.
What is Mexico?
Magellan gave it this name due to its 'peaceful' nature.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Name one accomplishment of Magellan